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About a month ago, the Samsung C417 appeared on the FCC site, and now Cingular made it available to it's users.

The phone is an entry-level clamshell with two displays, first one a 65k TFT internal display (128 x 160 pixels) and a second external display (96 x 96 pixels). It also features a standard VGA camera.
Now you decide if it worths the $49.99 on contract.

Cingular [via engadeget]

Samsung's new Ultra range is designed to illustrate just how much technology they can fit into a slim phone design. So, whilst they've now got the skinniest candybar title, the slimmest HSDPA phone and a host of other accolades, they haven't skimped on the specs. The D900 was the first of these to be launched, featuring a sliding design and measuring just 12.9mm in width. And yes, it's the world's slimmest slider phone. Available free on contract, it's in the shops now.

Techdigest made a review of this phone and here are some of their impressions. The camera is the best found on a slider phone at 3 megapixels, which takes stills and video footage. There is 60MB of internal memory to store your photos, as well as a MicroSD slot for expanding that. The screen is 2.1" which is noticeably larger than previous Samsung screens such as the one found on the E900. It also supports 262,000 colours, so is bright enough to take advantage of all the fancy pants graphics it comes with.

However, despite offering 3 megapixels, it loses against the competition as it still appears as a camera phone, rather than something that you'd consider dumping your camera for. The light is LED, so doesn't use a flash, making your subjects look odd in low light. Unlike many of it's contemporaries, there is a limited number of things you can do with the photos once you've taken it. Yes, you can MMS it, and you can send it via Bluetooth to a printer, but there's no extended applications, such as loading it onto a blogging site, which both Nokia and Sony Ericsson have included.

So, the conclusion is that on paper, the Samsung D900 looks great. But it's once you take it from the box that you lose the excitement. Whether it's the large screen which makes it look bigger than it is, or the green or red buttons that make it look old fashioned, designwise they seem to have let the fact that it's thin excuse any effort on the rest of it.

Read full review on techdigest.

The FCC approved Samsung SGH-i610 – a tri-band (900/1800/1900 MHz) GSM phone supporting UMTS 2100 MHz band, which is the frequency used for 3G in Europe and Asia; for non-3G areas, it supports GPRS and EDGE. The phone resembles the D830 in design but its 2 megapixel camera with auto-focus that is located on the back.

The i610 features a hybrid QWERTY keyboard similar to the SureType keyboard on many RIM handsets, including the T719 from Samsung. It also has a 2 Megapixel auto-focus camera, both of which are Windows Mobile firsts. The i610 features a second camera for video calling, Micro SD card slot, stereo Bluetooth (A2DP), an FM Radio, and a 2 line monochrome external display.

In addition to the standard Smartphone suite, the Samsung i610 also includes an RSS reader with a podcast player and Picsel viewer for opening attachments on the phone. Samsung is also launching the i600, a big brother to this phone with a full QWERTY keyboard and Wi-Fi as well.

Via phoneArena.

Samsung will soon introduce the P300 successor, the SGH-P310 calculator phone. The phone design is a big change compare to P300, which do not looks like a calculator at all now. The card size phone is easily slot into your pocket, while the slim size also gives you a 2 megapixel camera.

The Samsung P310 is not offcially announced yet, it comes with a 2 megapixel camera, 86MB internal memory, 256k colors TFT display screen with 220 x 176 pixels resolution. Micro SD card slot is there to fulfil your storage space needs. The SGH-P310 bluetooth module support stereo audio profile (A2DP), let you stream music to your bluetooth device wirelessly. We shall expect the official announcement soon.

Via slashphone.