The $1.3 billion will be paid upfront, with additional royalties to be paid afterwards.

According to Telecoms Korea, the $1.3 billion that will be received from Samsung accounts for about 80% of Qualcomm’s net income of fiscal year 2009.

(Samsung S8000 Jet, one of the latest Samsung phones to use a Qualcomm platform)

Reportedly, the new deal with Qualcomm was signed by Samsung “under the most favorable conditions”, thanks to the fact that the South Korean company is Qualcomm’s most important customer.

• Qualcomm and BlackBerry heading for Korea now that WIPI’s gone
• Snapdragon smartbook, smartphone to be launched in Korea this year
• RIM reports strong growth, 3.9 million new BlackBerry subscribers
• HTC prepares about 10 new handsets for 2009
• South Korea scraps WIPI, opens the mobile market to foreign competition

There have been enough leaked pics and videos of the Behold II that its overall look and feel are no longer in question, and certainly no longer a mystery. And we’ve already heard nearly-confirmed rumors that the device will officially be on sale beginning November 18. So now all that’s left is an official proclamation that the Behold II exists and really is coming out when we all expect it to.

Behold II. Tell your friends.

Just in case you need a refresher on what it looks like, check this pic out below:

via IntoMobile

• T-Mobile’s Samsung Behold and Samsung Gravity now official
• Blackberry Storm 2 Official Video is Now Out
• HTC S522 approved by FCC with T-Mobile 3G support
• Nokia N900 delayed a bit, will start shipping in November
• T-Mobile Release Date Rumors: Tap, Behold II

The Star S5230 passed the 10 million mark after six months since its release (May), thus becoming the fastest-selling Samsung phone ever.

Samsung reported that 5 million Star handsets were sold until August. September and October both brought sales of over 2 million units, so the 10 million mark was reached quite fast.

About 5 million Stars were sold in Europe (UK, Italy, the Netherlands and so on), 1.6 million in Latin America, 900,000 in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and 800,000 in China.

Via NewsWire

• 5 million Star S5230 phones already sold by Samsung
• Samsung Star S5230W and S5233W come with Wi-Fi
• 2 million LG Cookie phones sold, 10 million units planed
• Samsung Preston and Samsung Star – new names for the S5600 and S5230
• Samsung sold over 10 million touchscreen phones in 2008

Both new devices are touchscreen phones, but they’re not at all similar and are targeted at different categories of customers.

The Samsung Mythic is priced at $199.99 on contract after a $50 mail-in rebate and features stuff like: a 3.3 inch display, TouchWiz UI, 3G, finger zoom, virtual QWERTY keyboard, full HTML browser, AT&T Navigator, AT&T Mobile TV, Stereo Bluetooth and a 3.2MP camera.

The Mythic looks really nice, as you can see in the photo below:

Priced at $99.99 (also on contract and after a $50 mail-in rebate), the Samsung Flight is a non-3G handset.

The Flight comes with a smaller touchscreen display, full QWERTY keyboard, HTML web browser, AT&T Navigator, stereo Bluetooth, and a 2MP camera.

Via Press release

• AT&T Intros Four Phones with Opera HTML Browser
• Pantech Reveal now available at AT&T, $80 on contract
• Verizon’s Samsung Rogue and Intensity now available
• Samsung U960 Rogue and U450 Intensity coming to Verizon on September 8
• Verizon’s Samsung Rogue and Samsung Intensity appear in official photos

Previously known as BlackBerry Aries, the Curve 8530 is the CDMA version of T-Mobile’s BlackBerry 8520.

The 8530 features EV-DO connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS, full QWERTY keyboard, QVGA display, optical trackpad, 3.5mm headset jack, 2MP camera and MicroSD card support.

BlackBerry Curve 8530 will be available at Verizon starting November 20 for $99.99 on contract (after a $100 mail-in rebate).

The other device announced by Verizon – Samsung u640 Convoy – is a rugged Push To Talk clamshell.

The Samsung Convoy meets military specifications 810F standards for dust and shock resistance, humidity, vibration, solar radiation, low/high temperature and altitude. It comes with VZ Navigator, external and internal displays, Bluetooth 2.1, 2MP camera and a 1300 mAh battery. The phone will be available from Verizon starting November 15 for $49.99 on contract.

Another rugged phone that’s headed to Verizon is the Casio G’Zone Brigade which, according to Engadget, is waterproof and features Push To Talk and document viewer. The G’Zone Brigade has a small display and an alphanumeric keypad on the outside, as well as a large display and a QWERTY keyboard on the inside.

The launch date and price of Casio G’Zone Brigade were not announced by Verizon.

Via Verizon here and here

• Verizon’s Casio Brigade C741 approved by the FCC
• Verizon to launch Nokia Twist 7705, LG Chocolate Touch VX8575 and more
• BlackBerry Curve 8350i finally launched by Sprint
• Casio Exilim and Motorola Rival launched by Verizon
• T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve 8520 (Gemini) to come on August 5

Only orders of up to £30 are accepted, but you get a 20% discount every time.

The Pizza Hut app will use Vodafone’s location-based services to highlight the nearest Pizza Hut store so that customers can receive their orders as soon as possible.

The Samsung Vodafone 360 H1 is currently available for free with a 2-yr contract agreement and a monthly plan of at least £35 ($58). The smartphone runs on a LiMo platform and features a 3.5 AMOLED touch screen display, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, 5MP camera and 16GB of internal memory.

Via Pocket-lint

• Vodafone Samsung 360 H1 starts shipping on October 30
• Samsung Jet S8000 already available in the UK, free on select Vodafone plans
• Samsung S5600 launched in the UK via Orange
• Samsung Galaxy i7500 finally available from O2 UK
• Nokia N900 to hit the UK on Nov. 16, free on select contracts

To be honest, we weren’t expecting to see the Jack to be one of the first 6.1 phones pushed through to 6.5 by its manufacturer. Nothing against the Jack at all; it’s just running Standard since there is no touchscreen capability.

So what does the Jack and any other WM 6.5 Standard phone get? Improved Internet Explorer, full access to Windows Marketplace, and free access to AT&T WiFi hotspots.

Woohoo? Anyone excited about this one?

In order to download the upgrade, check out Samsung’s official place to do so.

• More details on Windows Mobile Marketplace’s Phase 2
• Samsung Jack i637 officially announced by AT&T
• Microsoft is negotiating carrier-branded versions of Windows Marketplace
• Windows Marketplace opens for submissions on July 27; WM 6.0 and 6.1 will be supported
• AT&T finally offers free Wi-Fi for all iPhone users

Opera Mobile 10 beta works with Symbian S60 3rd and 5th edition, so it can be installed on both touchscreen and non-touchscreen phones.

The new version of Opera Mobile has a fresh design, it’s twice as fast as the older versions launched for Symbian, and comes with desktop-like features such as Speed Dial and tabbed browsing.

Here’s a video presentation of Opera Mobile 10 beta for Symbian:

You can download Opera Mobile 10 beta for free from Opera’s official website.

Via Press release

• Opera Mini 5 beta launched, available for download
• Opera Mobile 9.7 beta announced and available for download
• Opera Mini 5 coming really soon to a phone near you
• Opera 9.5 Mobile beta is out
• Skyfire 1.0 mobile browser now available

We knew the Moment was coming on November 1 – and it’s nice to see that Sprint kept its promise and actually released it the day it said it would.

Coming as Sprint’s second Android phone (after the HTC Hero), Samsung Moment features a full QWERTY keyboard, a 3.2 inch HVGA AMOLED touchscreen display, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, 3.2MP autofocus camera with flash, and an 800MHz processor.

Sprint sells the Samsung Moment for $179.99 on contract (after a $100 mail-in rebate).

Sanyo 3810, the second new phone launched by Sprint today, is an entry-level clamshell with features like: 2.4 inch QVGA internal display, GPS, web browser, Bluetooth and a 1.3MP camera.

The Sanyo 3810 is free on contract, after a $50 mail-in rebate. You can get it in two color versions: Regal Red and Black Onyx.

• Sanyo SCP-2700 and LG Lotus in red announced by Sprint
• Samsung Moment (InstinctQ) with Android announced by Sprint
• Verizon’s Samsung Rogue and Samsung Intensity appear in official photos
• Verizon’s Samsung Rogue and Intensity now available
• Sprint launches Samsung M330, camera-less BlackBerry Tour 9630

The i6500 Saturn has recently received its Wi-Fi interoperability certification (PDF link), so it will surely feature Wi-Fi.

According to Tweakers.net, the rest of the phone’s features should be similar to the ones of Samsung Galaxy i7500, although its processor might be an 800MHz one rather than a 528MHz one. Reportedly, the i6500 runs Android 1.5, but it will probably be launched with Android 2.0.

Unfortunately, we can’t see what the Saturn i6500 looks like, since there are no available photos of it at the moment.

Samsung Saturn i6500 should be released sometime in 2010, for a retail price of around €300 ($442).

• Samsung Galaxy i5700 in press photos, has Android written all over it
• Samsung i5700 Galaxy Lite in live photos, video
• The price of Samsung i7500 Galaxy unlocked: about $800
• Samsung Galaxy Lite i5700 coming soon?
• Samsung Galaxy i7500 in white – coming soon

The Omnia II was designated the Official Mobile Device of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games (held in Vancouver between 12 and 28 February next year), and Bell will offer it with exclusive 2010 Winter Games content.

Customers who buy the Samsung Omnia II from Bell will be able to download the Wireless Olympic Works communications platform (aka WOW), which is offered for free and provides real-time information about the Olympic Winter Games.

Already available in many markets around the world (like China and Australia), Samsung Omnia II features Windows Mobile 6.5, a 3.7 inches WVGA AMOLED touchscreen display, TouchWiz 2.0 UI, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, 5MP autofocus camera, and up to 48GB of storage space.

Bell didn’t announce the price of its Omnia II.

Via Press release

• WiTu AMOLED and OmniaIcon – Samsung Omnia II’s names for Russia and Australia
• Samsung Omnia 2 i8000 reaches new markets, Australia and China included
• Samsung Omnia II i8180 headed to China Mobile
• Verizon’s Omnia II appears on Samsung’s website
• Samsung Omnia II i920 for Verizon gets pictured

The S5560 is a slim touchscreen handset (11.9 mm) with a 3 inch WQVGA display and quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity. The phone doesn’t have 3G, but it comes with Wi-Fi, so as long as you’re near a Wi-Fi hotspot you won’t need 3G anyway.

Samsung S5560’s other features include: Bluetooth 2.1, 3.5mm headset jack, Music and Video players, FM radio with RDS, 5MP camera (with autofocus and flash), 78MB of internal memory and MicroSD card support, up to 16GB. The phone should be able to provide up to 9.5 hours of talk-time.

It’s said that the Samsung S5560 will be launched in Europe next month (November). Its retail price should be under €300 ($445).

Via Les mobiles

• Samsung Xplorer B2100 officially announced
• Samsung S5200 officially announced
• Samsung S5510 – a Nokia 6600 Fold wannabe?
• Samsung i550 GPS phone gets official
• Dual SIM Samsung B5702 officially announced

The phone is Samsung GT-i6330 (or simply i6330) and, unfortunately, little is known about it.

Anyway, we can see a video-call camera (so the phone should feature 3G / TD-SCDMA connectivity). There’s also a 3.2MP photo camera on the back.

As you can see in the image below, the Samsung i6330 has a rather weird design:

The price and release date of Sasmung i6330 are not known at the moment.

Via Mobile-review

• Samsung Omnia II i8180 headed to China Mobile
• Huawei U7510 – another new touchscreen phone
• Huawei C7300 and T550+ touchscreen phones for China
• Nokia 6788 announced – Nokia’s first TD-SCDMA phone
• Motorola E11 photos and specs show up

Since the S5230 is called Samsung Player One in France, the new special edition model has become Samsung Player One Hello Kitty. It’s the first Hello Kitty touchscreen phone (if we don’t count the Chinese knock-offs), it’s pink and it obviously comes with a Hello Kitty logo, as well as with a cute Hello Kitty face on the back case.

The Samsung E2210 is pink as well, and the Hello Kitty face is featured on its back case too.

French customers can buy the two new Samsung Hello Kitty phones here and here. The S5230 HK costs €219 ($328), while the E2210 HK is priced at only €89 ($133).

• Samsung Star S5230 gets more color versions, Zadig & Voltaire special edition
• Sony Ericsson F305 Hello Kitty Edition – every little girl’s dream?
• Sony Ericsson W350 pink edition released
• Samsung Star Think Pink Edition to help the fight against breast cancer
• Samsung Galaxy i7500 launched by Bouygues Telecom in France, only €89

Well, the wait might be almost over.

This Android handset has been officially announced today in Russia, as Samsung Galaxy Spica.

I checked all the official Samsung PR sites and haven’t found it mentioned anywhere else, so in other countries it will be annoubced later.

Anyway, here are the press pics of Samsung Galaxy Spica:

The specs/features of Samsung Galaxy Spica include 800 MHz CPU, 128 of RAM, 3.2″ touchscreen display, 3.2 mpx camera, 1500 mAh battery, microSDHC (up to 32GB) support, GPS sensor, compass and ability to play unconverted popular video files.

Samsung Galaxy Spica should ship in Russia in Novemeber for 14 000 rubles ( 320 EUR).

(Hat tip for Technozona.bg for pointing in the right direction)

• Samsung Galaxy i5700 in press photos, has Android written all over it
• Samsung i5700 Spica (Galaxy Lite) in new video preview
• Samsung C5212 officially announced: under $200 dual-SIM phone
• Samsung i5700 Spica and R860 approved by the FCC
• Samsung Galaxy i7500 finally available from O2 UK

Samsung will offer up to $330,000 in prize money. Two top winners will receive $100,000 in cash, each. There will also be smaller prizes: $10,000, $5,000 and $2,000.

All winning applications will be distributed via the Samsung Application Store.

To enter the competition, you must be registered to sell paid apps at the Samsung Application Store Seller Office.

The competition will be open until December 10. For addition information, visit the Samsung seller website.

Via NewsWire

• The Vodafone App Star competition – €100,000 for the best 360 widgets
• Samsung Application Store for smartphones coming on September 14
• Samsung Innovation Quest 2009 debuts, asks you to develop widgets for the Omnia HD
• Samsung launching app store at MWC 2009
• LG Application Store launched in Asia, only for Windows Mobile

The handset makers are: Samsung, LG, Research in Motion and Sharp. It is the first time when giant phone manufactures announce their global commitment to the JIL widget standard.

Reportedly, the Joint Innovation Lab’s widgets “will be capable of enhancing the mobile internet experience for customers on a variety of smartphones as well as mid- and low-cost handsets across several operating systems and distributed through JIL operators’ applications stores”.

Verizon, Vodafone, China Mobile and Softbank have a combined user base of more than 1 billion around the world (North America, Europe, Asia and Africa).

Via Press release

• Vodafone joins the app store race
• Vodafone buys Wayfinder for $29.3 million
• European telecom operators to sell HTC-branded handsets for a change
• Vodafone Music 24/7 service Launched
• QiGi i6 officially supports both Android and Windows Mobile 6.1

The B3310 / Corby Mate has an unusual design, coming with numeric keys on the left side of the screen, and a sliding QWERTY keyboard.

The phone’s other features include: 2 inch QVGA display, quad-band GSM connectivity, easy access to social networking sites, email, Bluetooth 2.1, FM radio, Music player, 2MP camera, 40MB of internal memory and MicroSD card support.

No word yet on the price of Samsung Corby Mate, but Indian customers can check it out on Samsung’s official website.

Via Samsung Hub

• Samsung adds CorbyTXT B3210 and CorbyPRO B3410 to cheap and youthful Corby family
• Samsung B3310 now official in France; comes in blue too
• Samsung S3650 Corby and M2520 in live photos
• Samsung S3650 Corby touchscreen phone to cost only €200
• Samsung Corby S3650 officially announced

The Samsung i5700 was approved to work on the 850/1900 GSM and 850/1900 WCDMA bands, so you’ll be able to use it on AT&T’s network. Now let’s hope Samsung decides to launch the handset in the US.

Samsung i5700 should come with an AMOLED touchscreen display, Wi-Fi, GPS and a 3.2MP camera. A video preview of it can be found here.

According to the FCC, the Samsung R860 features 1700MHz AWS connectivity, as well as CDMA/EV-DO, so it’s likely headed to MetroPCS or Cricket.

As you can see, the R860 is probably a touchscreen phone. We’ll bring new details about it as soon as we find out more.

Via FCC here and here

• Huawei M750, ZTE C90 to be launched by MetroPCS
• Sprint Samsung Ace i325 phone. Live pics and more details
• Samsung S9110 and i920 high-end phones coming soon?
• Verizon’s Casio Brigade C741 approved by the FCC
• Samsung Messager II (R560) available from MetroPCS

First we have the Samsung Behold II Android with AMOLED touchscreen and Touchwiz UI, receiving a date of November 18. The Android powerhouse will have WiFi, 3G, 5 MP camera and a customizable home screen, amongst other strong features.

The next one is the T-Mobile Tap, which was announced less than two weeks ago. The Tap is a rebranded Huawei U7510, which features 3G, GPS, TeleNav location based services, stereo Bluetooth, and a 2MP camera. Not a whole lot seems to be known of this device, but look for it available in stores on November 11.

Naturally there seems to be more hoopla around the Behold II than the T-Mobile Tap, but given the features of the former this shouldn’t come as a surprise to most.

via TmoNews

• T-Mobile myTouch 3G Fender, T-Mobile Tap and Nokia 3711 announced
• Android and Symbian smartphones to come from Huawei in 2009
• Huawei U8220 Android phone coming as T-Mobile Pulse?
• Samsung and T-Mobile Ready for Behold II Event on Nov 12
• Huawei Android phones confirmed for Q3 2009

A new video preview of the Samsung i5700 has just appeared over at the ai.rs blog, this time showing the black version of the handset.

It’s said that the features of Samsung i5700 are similar to the ones of Samsung Galaxy i7500, save for the fact that the unannounced phone has a 3.2MP flash-less camera and, apparently, only 100MB of internal memory.

Well, here’s the new video:

If Samsung introduces the i5700 Spica / Galaxy Lite this year, the smartphone will probably come with Android 1.6 on board – like the Acer Liquid A1.

• Samsung Galaxy i5700 in press photos, has Android written all over it
• Samsung i5700 Galaxy Lite in live photos, video
• Samsung Galaxy Spica officially announced in Russia
• Samsung Galaxy Lite i5700 and HTC Tatoo (Click) show up in France
• Samsung Galaxy Lite i5700 coming soon?

BGR has leaked the new lineup that’s supposed to start off their voyage into HSPA+. Some phones are obvious while a few others are a pleasant sight to see.

First off, we all knew the iPhone is coming next month to Bell, so no surprise there. There have also been rumors of the Samsung Omnia II floating around. But we have learned that the Bold and Bold 2 (9700) are coming, Samsung Impact, LG Xenon, Nokias 2730 and 6350, and 3 HSPA laptop cards from Novatel (2 of which will offer 21 Mbps, a third will have 7.2).

Notable items: both the Bold and Bold 2 will be sold at the same time, though the original is rumored to be offered at a lower price ($149 for original, $249 for new). The iPhones will be $149, 199 and 299 for the 8, 16 and 32 GB respectively.

That’s all that was on the list for now, but I’m sure there will be a few others coming out that we haven’t heard of. Just make sure you get a new contract with these phones so you don’t get charged an additional monthly fee.

via BGR

• Bell to Deploy HSPA Network by Next Month
• AT&T to upgrade its 3G network to HSPA 7.2Mbps
• Samsung Reclaim launched by Bell; Samsung Omnia 2, Impact and Galaxy coming to Canada soon
• 5 mpx Samsung SGH-G800: 3x optical zoom, microSDHC card and HSDPA support
• Bell’s Samsung Omnia II is the Official Mobile Device of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games

The phone, called Samsung i8180 Chai or Samsung i8180c, seems to have most of the features you’ll find in the i8000, including Windows Mobile and a 3.7 inch AMOLED touchscreen display.

However, the i8180 has China-specific features as well, like WAPI, TD-SCDMA connectivity and CMMB (China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting).

The Samsung i8180 / i8180c looks really nice, as you can see in the photos below:

At the moment, the release date of Samsung i8180 is not known, but the smartphone will probably hit the Chinese market in the next few months.

Via Tweakers.net and 163

• LG to ship more 3G phones than Samsung, thanks to demand from China
• Nokia 6788 announced – Nokia’s first TD-SCDMA phone
• HTC to conquer China with its Android Magic smartphone
• Beijing Olympics seen to boost sales of white-box handsets in China
• Samsung i6330 touchscreen phone leaked

Customers can already pre-order the H1 via Vodafone’s official website. The LiMo-based phone can be yours for free with a contract agreement for two years and a monthly plan of at least £30.

The Samsung 360 H1 will come with Vodafone’s new 360 service, as well as with nice features like: a 3.5 inch AMOLED screen, 3D UI, HSDPA, GPS, Wi-Fi, 5MP autofocus camera, and 16GB of internal memory.

By the end of the year, Vodafone will also launch the Samsung 360 M1 – also a LiMo phone, but with fewer features than the H1.

• Vodafone’s Samsung H1 to have a Pizza Hut home delivery app
• LiMo-based Samsung Riedel i8305 coming to Vodafone?
• Vodafone announces 360 services, Samsung H1 and M1 LiMo phones
• Samsung S5600 launched in the UK via Orange
• Samsung S8300 Comes to UK March 19

The M8400 is Samsung’s second WiBro-enabled handset, after the SCH-M8300 model, and KT expects it to boost wireless Internet usage.

The new smartphone will allow users to make VoIP calls and, as you can see in the faulty rendering below, it has a touchscreen display and is based on Windows Mobile.

The release date and price of Samsung M8400 are not known at the moment.

Via Telecoms Korea

• Samsung SCH-W760 to offer infrared video calling
• Samsung develops LTE phone chipset, will demo it at MWC 2009
• Samsung Giorgio Armani W820 / W8200 shows up in Korea
• Samsung and LG to release Android phones in Q3 2009 at the earliest
• Windows Mobile 7’s Internet Explorer could use open-source WebKit

The F488i comes with an upgraded “3x TouchWiz User Interface”, which includes Shortcut Pages and Extended Desktop. The F488i also offers Online Widgets, Social Networking Widgets (MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr), Feature Tab Page View, and Photo Contracts.

Other features are similar to the ones found in the F480/F488: 240 x 400 pixels display, GSM and HSDPA connectivity, document viewer and 5MP autofocus camera with LED flash.

Samsung didn’t say if there will be a European F480 with upgraded TouchWiz UI too.

Via Samsung Mobile Hong Kong

• Samsung revamps its TouchWiz UI
• Samsung Ultra S Elegant Edition launched in Hong Kong
• Samsung Omnia II i920 for Verizon gets pictured
• Samsung opens TouchWiz to third parties by launching Mobile Widget SDK
• Samsung Anycall U608 Slimmest Slider Starts Shipping in Asia

Today, Samsung announced that the Armani B7620 will be available in Germany starting next month (November), and its price is indeed “about €700” – more exactly, it’s €729 ($1086).

As you may already know, the new Samsung Armani comes with Windows Mobile 6.5, as well as with a full QWERTY keyboard, a 3.5 inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen display, HSDPA connectivity, 5MP autofocus camera, and 8GB of internal memory.

The Samsung Armani B7620 smartphone should reach other European markets before the year’s end.

Via Press release

• Samsung Armani Windows phone (B7620) video hands-on
• Samsung Pixon 12’s price in Spain: €639, unlocked
• Samsung Giorgio Armani W820/W8200 in press photos
• Samsung Louvre B7610 to feature an AMOLED screen, 5MP camera and more
• Samsung Giorgio Armani W820 / W8200 shows up in Korea

The S7750 is built from PCM (Post Consumer Material), which is basically extracted from water bottles, and it’s free from harmful substances such as Phthalate, BFR (Brominated Flame Retardants) and PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride).

Samsung Blue Earth comes with a unique UI (based on TouchWiz) that’s “designed to draw attention to preserving our fragile environment.”

The new phone comes with a solar panel on the back, which should allow you to charge it in the most eco-friendly way possible. Even if you don’t use the solar panel, the handset’s standard charger is quite eco-friendly as well, since it uses only 0.03W of power in standby mode.

Unlike most of the eco-friendly phones released until now, the Samsung Blue Earth isn’t a low-end device. Its features include a 3 inch touchscreen display with 240 x 400 pixels and 16 million colors, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, stereo FM radio, 3.2MP camera, 130MB of internal memory, and MicroSD card support.

As for the price of Blue Earth S7750, Samsung still hasn’t announced it.

Via Press release

• Samsung’s Blue Earth phone is both awesome and solar-powered
• Samsung S7550 Blue Earth has TouchWiz; caught on video
• Cheap Samsung E1107 Crest Solar phone announced
• LG has solar powered eco-friendly phone too
• Keomo Solar Nemerix 16 Bluetooth GPS Receiver on Solar Power

In Russia, the i8000 Omnia II is named Samsung WiTu AMOLED (the first Omnia was called simply WiTu, and since the Omnia II has an AMOLED touchscreen display, it’s obvious why the new name).

In Australia, the i8000 Omnia II is marketed as Samsung OmniaIcon, and it looks like it’s available only via Optus for the time being.

Regardless of its name, the Samsung Omnia II is a really nice Windows Mobile handset, coming with a 3.7 WVGA screen, HSPA, 800MHz CPU, Wi-Fi, GPS, 5MP camera and up to 16GB of internal memory.

Via Samsung Hub and WMpoweruser

• Bell’s Samsung Omnia II is the Official Mobile Device of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games
• Samsung Omnia II i8000 and Omnia Lite B7300 smartphones announced
• Samsung Omnia EUR 286 in Russia. May get cheaper still elswhere
• Samsung Omnia Pro B7610 now official
• Samsung Omnia II i920 for Verizon gets pictured

The bad news is that, for the moment, the FCC doesn’t mention anything about the Pixon12 featuring US 3G, so if you somehow manage to buy it, you’ll probably be using it on the GSM/EDGE US frequencies only (850/1900 MHz).

Even so, the Pixon12 M8910 is a great handset – at least for those who want their touchscreen phone to have a 12MP camera with autofocus, Xenon flash and wide 28mm lens.

Another Samsung phone approved by the FCC today is the SGH-A886.

We don’t know much about this Samsung A886, but it might be headed to AT&T – perhaps as a slightly different Solstice A887?

• Samsung Pixon 12 M8910 to become the world’s first 12MP phone
• Samsung Pixon 12’s price in Spain: €639, unlocked
• 8MP Samsung Memoir, a US version of Samsung Pixon?
• Samsung M8920 to bring a 12MP camera with 3x optical zoom
• 8MP Samsung T929 Memoir approved by FCC

The B7620 is actually not just a phone, since it runs on Windows Mobile 6.5 – so it’s obviously a smartphone. The new Giorgio Armani handset from Samsung also features a full QWERTY keyboard, so it should be a good choice for those who want a fashionable device but also a completely-equipped smartphone.

Other features include: 3.5 inch WVGA AMOLED display, 5MP autofocus camera with, GPS and 8GB of internal memory.

The folks over at HDblog.it had the chance to play a bit with the Samsung Armani B7620 and recorded it all on video:

Samsung Armani B7620 costs slightly over $1,000 and it will probably be available before the year’s end in Europe.

• Samsung Armani B7620 goes to Germany in November, costs €729
• Samsung Giorgio Armani Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone unveiled
• Samsung Giorgio Armani W820 / W8200 shows up in Korea
• Samsung AMOLED 12M W880 – officially the world’s first 12MP camera phone with 3x optical zoom
• Samsung Giorgio Armani W820/W8200 in press photos

Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer himself presented the new device, saying that it’s “the most fashionable phone he’s ever had a chance to talk about.”

Resembling the Samsung Armani W820/W8200 feature phone, the WM 6.5 Samsung Armani doesn’t seem to have a name yet. Anyway, apart from Windows Mobile 6.5, it features a 3.5 inch AMOLED touchscreen display, GPS, 5MP camera, 8GB of internal memory, MicroSD card slot, and a full QWERTY keyboard.

The Samsung Armani Windows phone will cost €700 ($1032), although its release date is not known at the moment. Until the handset hits the market, here’s a video promo of it:

Via Blogosfere.it and Engadget

• Samsung Armani is SGH-P520 touchsreen card phone
• Samsung Armani B7620 goes to Germany in November, costs €729
• Samsung Armani Windows phone (B7620) video hands-on
• Samsung D980/D988 – DuoS with touchscreen
• Samsung Giorgio Armani W820/W8200 in press photos

According to All About Phones, the handset might be called Samsung Galaxy i5700 Spica, and not Galaxy i5700 Lite. Also, it looks like the i5700 doesn’t use Samsung’s TouchWiz UI.

The features of Galaxy i5700 are similar to the ones of Galaxy i7500, save for the 3.2MP camera without flash and the internal memory (i5700 seems to have only 1GB).

The Galaxy i5700 should be announced by Samsung this month. Its price is obviously not known at the moment.

• Samsung i5700 Galaxy Lite in live photos, video
• Samsung i5700 Spica (Galaxy Lite) in new video preview
• Samsung Galaxy i7500 from O2 UK in August
• Samsung Galaxy Lite i5700 and HTC Tatoo (Click) show up in France
• Samsung S5050 appears in press photos

We don’t know why Sprint ditched the Instinct branding for this new Android smartphone, but Moment sounds pretty good anyway.

The features of Samsung Moment include: 3.2 inch AMOLED touchscreen display, full QWERTY keyboard, EV-DO Rev A connectivity, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, stereo Bluetooth, quick access to networking sites (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr), visual voicemail, MicroSD card support up to 32GB, and an 800MHz processor.

Samsung Moment will be available from Sprint starting November 1. The smartphone is priced at $179.99 with a 2-yr contract agreement and after a $50 instant savings and a $100 mail-in-rebate. Customers can pre-register for the device on Sprint’s official website.

The Moment comes only few days after another Samsung Android handset, the Behold II for T-Mobile, was announced.

Via Sprint

• Sprint intros the Android HTC Hero – available starting October 11
• Acer Liquid A1 to come in November for €380 unlocked
• Samsung Moment and Sanyo SCP-3810 now available at Sprint
• HTC HD2 to hit the UK on November 11, unlocked
• Sprint intros the HTC Snap S511 and Samsung Exclaim

According to the initial list of specs, there was nothing really special about it. Samsung F839 had good looks, specs of a mid-to-low- range touchphone, and was one of the first 3G handsets for China Mobile’s high speed 1X EVDO network.

Today Samsung F839 has become official in China.

Samsung F839 specs include:

• 3G CDMA2000 (China Telecom) CDMA2000 1X EVDO 800MHz connectivity
• 3.2” WQVGA 240×400px, 262K color touchscreen TFT display
• 3 megapixel (2048×1536) camera with digital zoom, 30 fps QVGA recording
• DivX video playback
• 100 MB of user memory
• microSD memory card slot (up to 8GB)
• built-in GPS, FM-Radio
• Bluetooth 2.0 USB 2.0
• Built in browser, e-mail client, Office document viewer
• Dimensions: 115.1 x 55 x 12.9mm
• Weight: 109gr
• Battery: 1000 mAh

The final list of specs confirms my initial impression about Samsung F839. It’s a good looking 3G full touchscreen phone, and will most likely be one of the most affordable 3G handsets on China Mobile network.

• Palm Ring P, Samsung F839, C6112 and E1390B coming soon
• Sprint Samsung Ace i325 phone. Live pics and more details
• Samsung i329 Windows Mobile smartphone for China
• Samsung i900 live pics, detailed specs provided by Chinese website
• Samsung F250 Music Slider

It’s planning on coming out on Sunday, October 11, and will look awfully similar to the Ace. It has the same form factor with QWERTY keyboard, and ever-so-slightly improved features.

The Intrepid will be offering a 3.2 MP camera, world roaming, EVDO Rev A and WiFi support. It is a touchscreen with 2.5″ QVGA display so it will be using the Professional edition of 6.5.

If you are interested in the slightest, be prepared to shell out $150 with contract after $100 rebate. Still interested? Let us know in the comments what you think.

via PhoneArena

• Sprint to launch WM 6.5 Samsung Intrepid (Ace II), Samsung Moment
• Sprint’s Samsung ACE gets Windows Mobile 6.1, GPS
• Verizon LG Venus – a glimpse into the next generation of Chocolates
• Samsung Gravity officially announced
• Samsung Moment and Sanyo SCP-3810 now available at Sprint

The WeatherBug widget will feature an icon on the Home screen, which allows Samsung phone owners to access current weather information.

The icon leads users to the WeatherBug website (which is ad-supported) – there, you’ll be able to find weather information for over 45,000 locations around the world, plus detailed forecasts for one week, as well as camera and satellite images.

No word yet about the other Samsung phones that will have the WeatherBug weather widget pre-installed, but, most probably, they’ll all be touchscreen devices (with TouchWiz UI).

Via Press release

• Samsung announces TouchWiz powerful phones for the US, Omnia likely to be included
• Samsung opens TouchWiz to third parties by launching Mobile Widget SDK
• Samsung revamps its TouchWiz UI
• 5 million Samsung TouchWiz F480 phones sold
• Palm offers up unlocked Centro for $299, only in white

The 2120 and 2130 are the first Guru phones to feature a photo camera (a VGA one, more exactly). Their other specs are similar, including: 1.5 inch CSTN display with 128 x 128 pixels, Bluetooth, FM radio, music dedicated key, GSM/GPRS connectivity, Mobile Tracker, Bike Mode and MicroSD card support (up to 2GB).

Samsung Guru 2130 also has dual speakers.

The Samsung Guru 1160 doesn’t have a camera and it features stereo FM radio, built-in torch, and a battery that can last up to 12 hours in talk-time mode.

(from left to right: Guru 2120, Guru 2130 and Guru 1160)

The prices of the new phones are as follows: Samsung Guru 2120 – 3,240 INR ($69); Samsung Guru 2130 – 3,600 INR ($76.5); Samsung Guru 1160 – 2,249 INR ($48).

Via Samsung Hub

• Samsung Guru200 launched in India
• Samsung E1410 and Samsung E1117, new entry-level candybars
• Mivvy intros three affordable dual SIM phones
• Samsung E1110 and Samsung E2510: new basic South Korean phones
• Samsung E2120 / E2120C – new, simple candybar

Unfortunately, we have almost no other details about the handset, except for the fact that, according to the Bluetooth SIG, it features Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and EDR. However, the Palm Ring P is almost certainly a webOS smartphone, since Palm announced that it’s through with Windows Mobile.

The Bluetooth SIG has also unveiled three upcoming Samsung handsets: F839, C6112 and E1390B.

Samsung F839 is a touchscreen phone that appears with China Telecom’s logo on it:

The features of Samsung F839 include:

• WQVGA touchscreen display
• CDMA / EVDO Rev. A connectivity
• GPS
• 3MP camera
• Full Web browser
• FM radio

Samsung C6112 is currently just a model name, as we only know about this device that it has Bluetooth. The phone might be similar to the Samsung C6620 and C6625.

And finally, the Samsung E1390B is an entry-level candybar with a design reminiscent of the Samsung E1410.

The E1390B is already official in Romania and features a 1.63 inch screen with 128 x 128 pixels, dual-band GSM/GPRS connectivity (900/1800), dual speaker, music dedicated keys, FM radio, email and MicroSD card support. No word yet on the price of Samsung E1390, but it should be a low one.

We’ve also learned that Samsung CorbyPRO will be called B5310B and B5310L in Latin America.

• 8 new Samsung phones leaked – S5050, C5212, S3310 and E2210 included
• Mivvy intros three affordable dual SIM phones
• LG GM310 music slider shows up, together with LG GB250, GB220, GB130 and GB102
• Samsung M3310 dual slider coming soon
• Samsung a167 GoPhone launched by AT&T, only $70

We have learned of the official introduction of four new handsets – 2 Samsung, 2 Pantech – that will be coming out within the next month, just in time for the big holiday rush. All of these will come equipped with Opera’s full HTML browser already on it.

It will be interesting to see how well this new browser performs on these feature phones. Will it be any better than the browsers already equipped on AT&T feature phones?

And the other question is, will the browsers perform so well that it will rival the HTML browser on most AT&T smartphones?

Let’s go through all of the announced devices.

Samsung Flight

First we have the Flight (pictured left), a “next-generation messaging device”. How? Because not only does it have a QWERTY slide-out keyboard, it also features a touchscreen. It will be hitting stores in November at a decent cost of $99.99 with contract after rebate.

Samsung Mythic

The Mythic (pictured center) is the biggest eye candy of the bunch. With a Touchwiz 3.3″ touchscreen display, it reminds us of the Eternity and Solstice in overall look. It will have Mobile TV and will be available in November for $199.99 with contract after rebate.

Pantech Reveal

Well, the Reveal (pictured right) certainly has a curious look to it, being a slider with a numeric keypad on top and QWERTY underneath. This particular device will be ready on October 18 but no word yet on pricing. All we know is that it will have 3G and GPS Navigator.

Pantech Impact

The Impact (not pictured) will offer a OLED touchscreen and will open up as a side flip (think LG EnV) to show off a secondary screen and full QWERTY keyboard. It will feature 3G and music player, and the front touchscreen will be haptic. No pricing or availability just yet.

Also intriguing is a new method of saving bookmarks to your mobile browser by going to mobile.att.net on your PC and clicking “send to mobile.”

The new Opera browser is described as “a rich hybrid experience that gives you a HTML experience similar to your PC browser at home” that “works really well on a feature phone.” Whatever that means. I’ve never been incredibly impressed by mobile browsers on a feature phone, so I hope this is worth all the extra hullabaloo.

via Engadget

• Samsung Mythic and Flight coming to AT&T on November 8
• Pantech Reveal now available at AT&T, $80 on contract
• QWERTY fiesta from AT&T: Pantech Matrix, Samsung Propel, Pantech Slate and AT&T Quickfire
• AT&T’s Pantech Slate available now – only 9.9mm in thickness
• T-Mobile’s Samsung Behold and Samsung Gravity now official

The Behold II will indeed have Android. Most rumors had pointed toward the Behold being an Android handset, but it is nice to know that Samsung has officially confirmed this now. Samsung will actually be integrating its proprietary Touchwiz UI into Android.

It will also be packing:

• 3.2″ AMOLED full touchscreen
• WiFi
• T-Mo 3G
• Up to 16 GB expandable memory
• Bluetooth 2.1
• Visual Voicemail
• 5 MP camera with autofocus and flash and video capabilities

So that’s the basic info from the press release, though we’ll include it underneath some smooth-looking press shots.

Samsung’s First Joint  Android™-Powered Mobile Phone from Samsung and T-Mobile Offers Rich Internet, Multimedia Experience

DALLAS, and BELLEVUE, WASH. — Oct. 5, 2009 — Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile)¹, the No. 1 phone provider in the U.S. ², and T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Behold® II powered by Android. The Behold II is a full touch-screen phone integrating the open and innovative Android platform from Open Handset Alliance™ with Samsung’s next generation TouchWiz™ user interface and T-Mobile’s high-speed 3G network for a rich mobile experience.

Following the success of its predecessor, the Samsung Behold®, the Behold II will be available exclusively from T-Mobile and is currently scheduled to launch before the start of the holidays. The sleek touch-screen phone is the first from T-Mobile USA to feature a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen, which provides crisper colors and wider viewing angles.  In addition, the Behold II is equipped with Samsung’s innovative TouchWiz user interface, allowing easy customization with widgets located in a slide out tray on the left side of the home screen and  providing one-touch access to a customer’s favorite and most commonly used features and applications. The Behold II offers three different home screens to drag and drop widgets onto the screen and organize the different workspaces with favorite widgets and application shortcuts. Samsung’s intuitive cube menu also provides quick access to six top multimedia features, including music, photos, videos, the Web, YouTube™ and Amazon MP3 for music downloads.

“We’re excited to announce Samsung’s first Android-powered device with T-Mobile in the U.S.,” said Omar Khan, senior vice president of strategy and product management for Samsung Mobile. “The Behold II follows the success of the Behold that launched last year taking the device and user experience to the next level with the Android platform, a large 3.2-inch AMOLED screen, next generation TouchWiz user interface and customization capabilities and premium features.”

“T-Mobile continues to expand our line-up of Android-powered phones in time for the holiday season with the addition of the Samsung Behold II,” said Travis Warren, director, product marketing, T-Mobile USA.  “The premium screen and quality camera coupled with Samsung’s innovative cube menu makes the Behold II a  multimedia powerhouse that’s made even stronger by T-Mobile’s high-speed 3G network.”

The Behold II will keep customers organized and entertained with access to built-in Google™ mobile services, including Google Search™, Google Maps™, Gmail™, YouTube and Google Talk™ as well as thousands of applications and games available for download from Android Market™. The Wi-Fi-enabled Behold II also supports personal email and corporate email with Exchange ActiveSync, as well as instant messaging, and text, picture and video messaging. Additional features include a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, flash, five shooting modes and video capabilities, visual voicemail which allows customers to listen to voicemails in order of preference, MP3 player, up to 16GB of external memory, assisted GPS and Bluetooth® 2.1.

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Since it’s form the Armani series, the Samsung W820/W8200 is a luxury phone. It has an alphanumeric keypad and a back cover that appears to be gold-plated.

The known features of the new Samsung Armani handset include: 3.1 inch WVGA touchscreen display, HSDPA connectivity, DMB TV, Bluetooth, 5MP camera, and MicroSD card support (up to 16GB).

No word yet if the Samsung Giorgio Armani W820/W8200 will be launched only in Korea, or if it will be available globally.

Via Samsung Hub

• Samsung Giorgio Armani W820 / W8200 shows up in Korea
• Samsung Armani B7620 goes to Germany in November, costs €729
• Samsung Armani SGH-P520 Launched Officially
• Samsung SCH-B900 touchscreen phone introduced in Korea
• Samsung Armani Windows phone (B7620) video hands-on

As it turns out, the 12MP camera of Samsung W880 also has 6x digital zoom, image stabilization, touch auto focus, face detection, Xenon flash and 720p video recording at 30fps.

Other known features of the phone include a 3.3 inch AMOLED WVGA touchscreen display and 4GB of internal memory.

Samsung AMOLED 12M SCH-W880 will be available in South Korea in early October for a price that hasn’t been announced. Samsung didn’t say if the phone will be launched in other countries.

Via Samsung Hub

• More than 2 million Samsung Jet phones pre-ordered
• Samsung Omnia II i920 for Verizon gets pictured
• Samsung Giorgio Armani W820 / W8200 shows up in Korea
• 12MP Samsung W880 (M8920) in official photo, looks more like a camera than a phone
• Samsung Pixon 12’s price in Spain: €639, unlocked

There aren’t too many advanced features packed into the Samsung C5310. The handset comes with a 2 inch 176 x 144 pixels display with 262K colors, Bluetooth 2.0, music player, FM radio, 1.3MP camera and MicroSD card support.

The phone also has quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity and 3G (although it’s only UMTS).

We don’t know yet when Samsung plans to launch the C5130. The phone’s price will most probably be  a low one.

Via Mobil.cz

• Samsung S3500, new entry-level slider
• 8 new Samsung phones leaked – S5050, C5212, S3310 and E2210 included
• Samsung C3310 surfaces – a simple slider
• Samsung M3310 dual slider coming soon
• Samsung S6700 and C5510 sliders coming soon

The phone strongly resembles a digital camera, having a dedicated camera button and a mode dial. As already mentioned, its camera is a 12MP one with Xenon flash and 3x digital zoom – now we also know that it supports HD video recording too.

Another nice feature of Samsung SCH-W880 is the 3.3 inch AMOLED display with 480 x 800 pixels.

Samsung SCH-W880 will probably be released outside Korea as Samsung M8920. Let’s hope it won’t be long until this happens.

Via Samsung Hub

• Samsung AMOLED 12M W880 – officially the world’s first 12MP camera phone with 3x optical zoom
• Samsung says: 8MP phones with 3x optical zoom next year, 12MP later
• Samsung W690 has an AMOLED display and GPS
• Samsung Launch SCH-W480 With 4x Digital Zoom
• White Samsung Omnia II to hit Verizon in July?

The S5510 isn’t officially announced, but Mobile-review has just posted a review of it.

Like the Nokia 6600 Fold, Samsung S5510 is a clamshell phone with an elegant design and a hidden external display.

The main features of S5510 include: 2.1 inch QVGA internal display with 16 million colors, 3G, Bluetooth, MP3 player, FM radio, 3.2MP camera with video, 30MB of internal memory and MicroSD card support.

Samsung S5510 should be available starting late-October, early-November. The phone’s price will be of around €200 ($292). The full Samsung S5510 review can be read here.

• 8 new Samsung phones leaked – S5050, C5212, S3310 and E2210 included
• Samsung S6700 and C5510 sliders coming soon
• Samsung S5200 officially announced
• Samsung E2120 / E2120C – new, simple candybar
• Samsung C5212 officially announced: under $200 dual-SIM phone

The Caliber is a touchscreen handset with a 3.2 inch WQVGA screen, Samsung’s TouchWiz UI, HTML browser, and a 3MP camera.

The second phone, Samsung Trill, is a music-oriented slider that looks a bit like the Samsung Trance released by Verizon earlier this year. The features of Samsung Trill include Bang & Olufsen ICEpower technology, 1GB of internal memory and MicroSD card support (up to 32GB).

At the moment, it’s not clear when US Cellular will release the two Samsung phones, and neither for what prices.

Via Engadget

• Bang & Olufsen says goodbye to the cell phone biz
• Samsung Trance to hit Verizon on April 24 for $50
• Samsung Trance officially announced by Verizon
• Samsung Bang&Olufsen Serenata F310 music phone for $2000
• Samsung E1110 and Samsung E2510: new basic South Korean phones

As you probably already know, the M8920 is an unannounced Samsung phone that should come with a 12MP camera that features 3x optical zoom and Xenon flash – so it may be marketed as the successor of Samsung Pixon12 M8910.

The M8920 was spotted over at Cetizen, but, sadly, without any other details about its features.

It’s not clear yet when the Samsung M8920 / SCH-W880 will be officially announced, but we’ll surely be here to announce when it happens.

Via SamsungHub

• New 8MP Samsung phone appears in Korea
• Samsung Propel Pro to hit AT&T sometime soon
• Samsung Pixon 12’s price in Spain: €639, unlocked
• Samsung AMOLED 12M W880 – officially the world’s first 12MP camera phone with 3x optical zoom
• Samsung Pixon12 M8910 and Samsung A886 pass the FCC

The new phone’s price will be as low as $249.99 with a 2-yr contract agreement and after a $100 mail-in rebate.

As expected, the Instinct HD comes with a 5MP autofocus camera and TV-out HD connection, providing photo and video playback on an HD-enabled external device. However, HD playback directly on the phone is not available.

The rest of Instinct HD’s features include:

• 320 x 480 pixels touchscreen display with 16 million colors
• Accelerometer and ambient light sensor
• EV-DO Rev A connectivity
• GPS, Sprint Navigation
• Wi-Fi
• Opera Mobile 9.7
• Corporate and POP3 email
• Stereo Bluetooth
• Mobile Sync
• Visual Voicemail
• Up to 5.8 hours of talk-time

Well, now let’s wait for the Android-powered InstinctQ to be announced too.

Via Sprint

• Samsung Instinct HD coming to Sprint on September 27?
• Samsung InstinctQ M900 passes the FCC; Sprint release imminent?
• Sprint intros the Android HTC Hero – available starting October 11
• Samsung Instinct Achieves Record Sales
• Samsung Instinct S30 and Samsung Mondi fully unveiled

The giant mobile operator has also announced a whole suite of internet services called Vodafone 360, as well as a second phone, dubbed Vodafone 360 M1 by Samsung

Vodafone 360 is compatible with many mobile phones and it’s presented as “the most personal address book available, bringing together all of the contacts from the mobile phone, social networks and other internet accounts”.

The service automatically syncs phones with your PC or Mac, and provides access to Facebook, Windows Live Messenger and Google Talk. Support for Twitter, studiVZ and Hyves will be added soon. Users will also have access to apps, music and games.

The Samsung H1 and M1 handsets use a proprietary Vodafone 3D UI based on LiMo.

The first phone, Vodafone 360 H1 by Samsung, has a 3.5 inch OLED touchscreen display, GPS, Wi-Fi, HSDPA, push email, 5MP camera with autofocus and flash, and 16GB of internal memory.

The second phone, Vodafone 360 M1 by Samsung only offers: 3.2 inch TFT touchscreen display, HSDPA, GPS, push email, 3MP camera, and 1GB of expandable memory. It will come in three color versions:

Vodafone’ 360 service and the Samsung H1 and M1 phones will be launched by the end of 2009 in the following countries: Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the UK.

In 2010, the service, together with new devices (including Nokia Symbian smartphones), will reach France (via SFR), Romania, Russia (via MTS), India, Turkey, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.

To learn more about Vodafone 360 you can visit the service’s official website. Or watch this video promo:

Via Press release

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• Vodafone Samsung 360 H1 starts shipping on October 30
• Vodafone’s new data plan for the UK: only 50p per day
• Samsung Instinct S30 and Samsung Mondi fully unveiled
• Samsung officially announces i900 Omnia