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The cool Samsung U900 Soul announced in February and released in April for the European market is now available in the United States too, with its superb design measuring just 12.9 mm thick and sporting an interesting dual QVGA display of 2.2 inches and 16 million color support, with magic touch navigation panel which changes depending on the application.
To use the phone after sliding in, you can opt for the touch pad similar with the one encountered in laptop computers.

And that’s not all as Samsung Soul comes also with a 5MP digital camera built-in for great pictures and video capture thanks to its autofocus, image stabilizer and QVGA video recording resolution.
More than that, you can browse the Internet and get stuff at high-speeds of up to 7.2Mbps thanks to the HSDPA Mobile Broadband connectivity support, or transfer files with other Bluetooth 2.0-compatible devices.

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The professional-grade cell phone measures 105 x 49.5 x 12.9 mm at a weight of 112 grams and has MP3 player, 1000 phone book entries, 128MB memory, microSD card slot, USB 2.0, email, HTML, RSS feeds, games, FM radio with RDS, picture editor and lots of other cool features.

It was announced to be available today at Mobilebee.com at a price of $450.

Virgin Mobile USA announced the upcoming Samsung Slash slider cell phone which is the first wireless phone introduced by the wireless plans without annual contracts provider.

It will be available soon at a suggested price of $79.99 in a slim form factor measuring 3.8 x1.8 x0.7 inches at 3oz, and featuring 3.5 hours of talk time, 170 hours of standby, built-in VGA camera, Bluetooth, Internet access, email, Instant Messaging, Speakerphone, voice dialing, Spanish language support, and TTY/TDD enabled.

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The future users will be able to benefit from all its capabilities on a bright color display and store up to 499 contacts with 5 phone numbers, 2 email addresses and one website each.
Next come the pre-installed games which are: Gameloft Jukebox and Superscape Demo.



Because it is provided by Viurgin Mobile, Samsung Slash gives users access to the VirginXL portal wwith animated and real music ringtones, and Headliner music magazine.



"Samsung Mobile is passionate about designing stylish phones that are easy to use," said Bill Ogle, Chief Marketing Officer for Samsung Mobile. "Our first collaboration with Virgin Mobile USA cuts right to the core of what our customers are looking for, a phone with exciting features and a cool design."

Finally available at Mobilebee.com, the Samsung F250 slider cell phone announced in December last year, is one of the most affordable cool handsets with a slim and stylish body, music player controllable via the dedicated hotkeys, stereo speakers, FM radio, a 3.5 mm jack for standard headphones, and the Radio Data System which shows the station ID, program titles, songs and other track information.



About the music player we can tell you that it supports multiple codecs to support a large variety of common file formats, while the Offline Mode is intended for use on the plane. The Background Music Play allows you to listen to the music and access the other phone functionalities in the same time.

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Besides the music functionality, Samsung F250 has a built-in 1.3MP camera with video recorder, Internet browser, email, 20MB internal memory, and 2GB maximum storage support via memory cards.
Mobilebee.com has it at a price of $179.99.

Designed by Christina Droira and her colleagues at the University of Cincinnati, for the Samsung's Global Sponsored Project, the Intouch cell phone concept was presented in Korea at the Samsung Corporate Headquarters.



The idea from which the team started was that most young professionals don’t use PDAs or Smartphones as these don’t meet all their requirements so the students had to come out with something new based on the sub-vocal speech technology developed at NASA. This technology is meant to improve the communication between astronauts in space, by using sensors that analyze communication from people’s throat.
At the neck level would be placed a piece designed to read speech nerve signals, while the ear part would be in charge of hearing convo.

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They called this complex device the Intouch because it focuses on communication, consisting of 3 parts: the phone, the directional sound Bluetooth ear cuff and the neck piece with adjustable magnetic enclosure and subvocal speech neuron detector, giving the user the possibility to use normal phone communication too.

For the cell phone, the designers wanted a fast glance screen on top, a modes button, a large wrapping LCD display, a super molded keyboard, the ear cuff spring loaded space, thumbprint security scanner, touch command surface and an integrated chip.

Skyworks Solutions has announced that 10 Samsung UMTS models will feature its front-end modules for EDGE, and power amplifiers for WCDMA and HSDPA.
Also, Samsung’s P960, the first cell phone with support for mobile TV that will be released in Europe, will feature Skyworks’ technology.



The 16.7 mm thin cell phone is supporting digital video broadcast-handheld standard as well as the new open mobile alliance mobile broadcast service enabler suite. It is known as a model sporting a 2.6-inch large QVGA TFT display, Bang & Olufsen ICEPower technology for high-quality sound, a built-in 3MP camera, music player, and FM radio with RDS.
Skyworks’ SKY77519 FEM solution is the world’s smallest in the industry for open-polar EDGE architectures, permitting OEMs to optimize power usage solution and to offer best performance which increases talk times by 10%, saving 30% of power, these leading to up to 5 hours of mobile TV on the enabled handset.

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"Skyworks congratulates Samsung on achieving the milestone launch of Europe's first DVB-H handset, and is pleased to support their family of compelling mobile TV platforms," said Liam K. Griffin, Skyworks' senior vice president of sales and marketing. "Our participation in their P960 design reflects our multimode design-win momentum and UMTS market share gains at Samsung and other OEMs."