The Samsung portofolio has just been completed with a brand new handset, the SGH-A637. The stylish canybar was recently introduced in the AT&T’s line, being sold on an exclusive basis by the American provider. The device combines interesting features and a stylish, elegant design that are meant to come up to the desires of the mobile phone users and what they all need.
Featuring high-end multimedia specifications, the new Samsung SGH-A637 supports 3G connectivity, which allows an easy access to MobiTV, Cellular Video and XM radio. There are specific AT&T services that can be used for anything that you’d like to do: for navigation, for example, there’s the AT&T Navigator, for downloading the music that you most like, there’s the AT&T Mobile Music, while for TV you can always access the MobiTV service.
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The phone packs a 1.3 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and video capture and also uses AT&T’s services. On one hand, it can access its high-speed 3G network for streaming video and, on the other hand, it can use the AT&T Video Share service, which gives you the possibility to send video files when you’re talking over the phone. As far as the screen is concerned, there’s a 1.9-inch 262k color TFT display, with a resolution of 176 x 144 pixels. Featuring a 51 MB internal memory, there is also the possibility of increasing the storage space with the microSD card slot, to store all your photos.
The Samsung SGH-A637 is a quad-band GSM phone (850/900/1800/1900 MHZ), in addition to dual-band UMTS (850/1900 MHz). There is also a Bluetooth wireless technology on board that provides handsfree communication and features A2DP support for stereo headsets.
You can keep in touch with friends with easy access to Yahoo, AIM and Windows Live instant messaging. In addition, the phone supports consumer email from service providers such as Yahoo, AOL, AIM, Windows Live, Hotmail, AT&T, Yahoo and Bellsouth, to send and receive emails on the move.
Measuring 86.8 x 45 x 20.5 mm (3.4 x 1.8 x 8 inches) and weighing 90.7 g (3.2 ounces), the battery life is estimated at about 14.6 days standby time and 5 hours talk time, with standard battery.
AT&T will sell this phone through its retail stores and there is not yet any information on pricing and availability.
What do you say to a 16 years old wannabe designer who invites you to make a review on his latest cellphone design, his favorite so far, which, by the way, looks absolutely amazing? You’ll be speechless, that’s what, because when you were 16, you barely had the chance of using such a device. Let’s face it, children grow up in a different environment nowadays because they have access to great amounts of crucial information and an extraordinary capacity of storing everything they come across.
The Samsung Lavender was developed by Andrew Kim, an amateur designer, who worked to this concept phone for nearly six months, and now he got to fully rendering and packaging the device. To make his work known, he posted it on ProductDesignForums. It looks pretty nice, isn’t it?
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When I first saw this, the last thing to cross my mind was that the Lavender is, in fact, a phone. It’s more like a perfume bottle or a sophisticated jewel that issues a sense of high fashion and elegance. At first glance, you might think there’s something wrong with the device or that the image is somehow distorted, due to its asymmetrical shape, but the truth is that precisely the unusual shape makes it different from any others you have seen before.
The designer named the phone as he did because the aroma of lavender is a universal symbol of beauty and elegance, he says, so the Samsung Lavender transposes the beauty into a physical form. The lines of the device emphasize the most pure form of simplicity and the ideal proportions, being clean, fluid and wrapping the device in harmony. The Lavender features a predominant deep violet color, fusing with notes of warm pink. In the front of the device there are both the speaker and the “home†button which is crafted in a ruby color. As far as the back is concerned, you can easily see that it follows the same design language of the front. On the whole, the phone looks a lot like a perfume bottle, having a very feminine aspect.
In the rear, the camera is surrounded by a circular flash and an array of “Starlight†LEDs which start pulsating whenever the phone is used in a dark location.
In addition, the Lavender can be connected to all sorts of accessories through a USB connector placed at the bottom of the device and secured by a magnetic latch system, but the device functions without the attachment accessories.
The Lavender comes with a “Lavender Light†attachment that emits bacteria fighting UV light during charging. During regular usage, the LEDs emit light when the touch screen is touched. On the other hand, there is a plastic perfume dispenser, which can easily be refilled. The only thing you have to do in order to activate the spray nozzle is to just press on the metal head.
But you haven’t yet heard the best part: the user interface features in the background a perfume liquid which gives you information about the battery life remaining. This means that, as the device is used, the level of “perfume†lowers.
Great concept, undoubtedly, especially because we’re talking about a 16 years old kid and I sure hope the Samsung Lavender will soon hit the mass production. It’s worth it!
Even if it was called Rugby, the new Samsung A837 released earlier this month, is not a portable fitness assistant like Samsung MyCoach, and instead it was designed with ruggedness in mind and optimized for tough working or trip environments.
It features the Push-to-Talk technology allowing you to instantly get in touch with a group of persons, in a similar way with walkie-talkies, and it also speeds up your Internet connectivity with the 3G technology. In addition, it integrates a large external speaker for music or loud sounds when there is noise in the background, as well as Multiple Messaging, Bluetooth wireless short-range connectivity, and the AT&T Navigator for GPS turn-by-turn directions.
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Rugby didn’t benefit from a large marketing campaign because it was released in the same month when it was announced, but we’re curious to find out what will happen from now on, if it’ll get your attention more or less.
Other features include a 1-inch external monochrome display, an internal 256K-color TFT LCD, 20MB memory, microSD card slot, USB 2.0 connectivity, email, web access, built-in 1.3MP camera, AGPS, MP3 player, speakerphone and other standard tools.
A Li-Ion 1000 mAh battery ensures up to 5 hours of talk time and up to 250 hours of standby.
Samsung Highnote, one of the latest additions to Sprint high-end cell phone line, is to be launched together with the Samsung Rant, considered to be the Best Cell Phone at this year’s CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment Conference, both featuring the innovative One Click user interface with customizable menus, awarded as the Best Overall Product at CTIA 2008.
Unlike Rant, which is optimized for intensive texting, Highnote comes with cool and powerful music features, and a distinctive one is the sliding stereo speaker at the top of the handset.
It is actually a dual-slider cell phone, revealing the speaker at the top and a dial pad at the bottom, while colored in blue or red.
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Enabled with Sprint’s Mobile Broadband Network it provides high-speed Internet connectivity for web browsing and downloads over-the-air, while the telecommunication network gives the user access to its Sprint Music Store, Sprint Navigation and other useful services.
There is a built-in 2MP camera with video recording capability and night shot mode, so you to be able to capture images on the go and record funny moments, as well as a 3.5-mm headphone jack, stereo Bluetooth technology with audible caller ID, up to 8GB memory, and speaker-independent voice recognition.
Samsung Highnote dual-slider cell phone measures 1.9 x 4 x 0.6 inches at 3.5 ounces and powers from a standard Li-Ion battery for up to 5.6 hours of continuous talk time. It sports a 2-inch TFT display with a resolution of 176 x 220 pixels and 262K colors, on which you can manage different productivity applications including turn-by-turn directions, 10 million points of interest to browse through, Live Search for directory information and interactive maps, Wireless Backup for your contacts information, and others.
It is mainly a music phone, so it comes first with an advanced music player capability, allowing you to browse the web and compose messages while listening to the background music. Next it gives you access to 150 radio channels and to Sprint’s Music Store with tons of songs available for purchase and download at a price of 99 cents each.
CTIA Wireless is a non-profit organization representing all the wireless communication fields including cellular, personal communication services and enhanced specialized mobile radio.
This year at CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment Conference, Sprint had a big success with its latest cell phone releases, winning 2 prestigious awards. Sprint One Click user interface won Best Overall Product at CTIA, while Samsung Rant received the Best Cell Phone at CTIA Award.
What is One Click? –It’s a new user interface provided by Sprint on its cell phones, featuring easy navigation and characteristics found usually in smartphones. The interface has customizable home screen and content such as text messaging, Google search, Sprint Navigation, email, favorite Web sites, music, and call log. In addition, users can add shortcuts to their favorite websites to access them in one-click directly from the home screen. The menu has a carousel style and you can scroll through the applications reading instant information about each feature available.
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According to Sprint, this interesting user interface which you’ll see in the following video posted on YouTube by PhoneScoop, is available on 3 phones: Samsung Rant awarded as Best Cell Phone, Samsung Highnote and LG Lotus, a cool cell phone we wrote about a few days ago.
Awards were decided based on the following criteria: top forward-thinking devices, applications and services with innovative design and utility, capable to enhance communication for customers and business users.
Sprint will add One Click on Sanyo Katana Eclipse later this fall.
"Proving that you don't need a smartphone to have a smart interface, Sprint's new One Click menu system makes it dead simple to access everything from your text messages and e-mail to Sprint's navigation and music services," wrote Mark Spoonauer, LAPTOP editor-in-chief. "We love the carousel-style UI, and that you don't have to dig through sub-menus to get what you want, including You Tube. The UI not only saves time, it will encourage Sprint customers to take full advantage of all the carrier's services, making the Simply Everything plan that much sweeter."
The award-winning Samsung Rant as Best Cell Phone sports a side-sliding full QWERTY keyboard, access to Sprint Navigation, Sprint Music Store and Sprint TV, and features a built-in 2MP camera with video recording, stereo Bluetooth, up to 8GB memory, voice recognition, Sprint Picture Mail, background music mode, audio caller ID, email, web browsing and instant messaging.
It is a practical handset coming in black or red, measuring 4.5 x 2.1 x 0.7 inches at 4.58 ounces, sporting a 2.1-inch TFT display of 262K colors, and providing up to 5.6 hours of talk time.
It will be available in October at Sprint for $49.99 with a 2-year contract and a $50 mail-in rebate.
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