8 February 2008
By: Florin Troaca, Communications News Editor
Samsung Soul, the New Ultra Edition Flagship Slider
Available from April 2008
Samsung Electronics announced today the release of Samsung Soul, the company's new flagship handset for 2008, presented as the "Spirit" of the Ultra Edition series. The phone will make its official debut next week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain (11 - 14 February).Samsung Soul comes in a slim, stylish slider case, while at the same time packing high-end features - a perfect combination between portability and functionality. The handset offers a Magical Touch navigation pad that adjusts itself according to your needs, making the whole mobile experience simple and intuitive. Although ultra-slim, measuring only 105.9 x 49.5 x 12.9 millimeters, the phone is 3G enabled, offering HSDPA connectivity for data transfer speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps.The new Samsung packs a 5 Megapixel camera with image stabilizer, WDR (Wide Dynamic Range), face detection, 4x digital zoom and QVGA video recording. Unfortunately, there's no auto focus, nor Xenon flash, but it's still a nice camera that will allow users to take good-quality photos. Further specs of the Soul phone include a 2.2 inch display with 16 million colors and 240 x 320 pixel resolution, user changed Graphic Interface, Bluetooth 2.0, Media player, Music library, speaker amplifier with Bang & Olufsen ICEpower technology, FM radio, Mobile blogging, Google mail and search, RSS feeds reader and microSD card support for boosting the internal memory. Another thing to mention is that, when slided, Samsung Soul reminds me of Nokia 6500 slide, but the resemblance disappears once the phone is closed. Anyway, the handset looks gorgeous, that's kind of hard to contest. Samsung Soul will be available in April across Europe for a price that hasn't been disclosed yet. However, it's said to come with a major global advertising campaign, therefore the US will surely get this shiny and slim handset, too.

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29 May 2008

By: Florin Troaca, Communications News Editor
Samsung Soulb, the Soul Candybar Announced
The third Soul phone from Samsung
Samsung announced, just a few hours ago, the release of Samsung Soulb, the third mobile phone from the South Korean manufacturer's Soul family. Samsung obviously chose to name the new handset Soulb due to its bar-type form factor (or candybar, as it's popularly known). Staying true to the "Soul spirit", the new Soulb comes in an elegant metallic case and it's the slimmest Soul phone up to now, measuring 111 x 46 x 9.9 millimeters. In this thin body, Samsung packed some pretty nice features, including: a 2 inch TFT display with 16 million colors and 240 x 320 pixels, a 3 Megapixel camera with flash and video, tri-band GSM connectivity (900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) plus HSDPA 2100 connectivity, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, Music player with most of the popular formats supported, a 3.5mm audio jack, FM radio with RDS, Video editor, HTML browser, Office document viewer & editor, USB 2.0, 1GB of built-in memory and mircoSD card support. "Soulb is an important stepping stone for Samsung. Soulb proves the world that Samsung is not only a predominant leader in selective form factors, but that it continuously seeks after becoming the leader in all variety of form factors, including slider, clamshell and bar", declared Geesung Choi, President of Samsung's Telecom Business, in a press release issued today. Is it just me, or is the "leader" reference clearly aimed at Nokia and its current position as the world's first handset manufacturer? It's known that Samsung already has several nice smartphones that run on Symbian S60 platform and it seems the company already thinks about dethroning the Nokia giant. Well, that would not be easy at all. Anyway, together with the U900 Soul slider and the G400 Soul clamshell, the new Soulb represents a really nice mini-family of phones that have both style and advanced features and can attract lots of users from around the world. Samsung Soulb will be available in no less than 5 color versions: Platinum Silver, Soul Grey, Amethyst Violet, Soul Pink and Metallic Black. The retail price of the phone was not announced, but we know that the first market where users will be able to buy it from, starting June, is Germany. Shortly after, Samsung will release the phone in many other countries across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America. As you can see, North America is, again, left out.

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