Samsung M1 Review

Hot on the heels of the Samsung H1, Vodafone has brought its 360 experience to a second handset – the M1.

The same as its predecessor, the M1 is run on LiMo, a Linux-based mobile OS, but will be marketed as a lower end handset for customers on a budget.


Specwise, the M1 packs at a 3.2-inch touchscreen, 3-megapixel camera with 8x zoom, video recording at 30fps, 3G, GPS and Bluetooth, as well as 1GB on-board storage expandable to 32GB by microSD.

The Vodafone 360 UI, which you can read all about in our hands on with the H1, makes your phone the hub of all your social networking a la Motoblur, so you can view all of your contacts – and ways to contact them – in one place.

This includes pulling in details from Facebook, MSN and Google Talk, with Twitter promised to be coming "very, very soon".

The M1 is expected to be distributed worldwide over 2009 and 2010, but no exact dates as to when we can expect it here.

We're chasing Samsung and Vodafone now for the details and we'll update you as soon as we have them. In the meantime be sure to check out our hands on impressions with the 360 service and the H1 handset, and let us know what you think below.

Samsung M1 Review

Hot on the heels of the Samsung H1, Vodafone has brought its 360 experience to a second handset – the M1.

The same as its predecessor, the M1 is run on LiMo, a Linux-based mobile OS, but will be marketed as a lower end handset for customers on a budget.


Specwise, the M1 packs at a 3.2-inch touchscreen, 3-megapixel camera with 8x zoom, video recording at 30fps, 3G, GPS and Bluetooth, as well as 1GB on-board storage expandable to 32GB by microSD.

The Vodafone 360 UI, which you can read all about in our hands on with the H1, makes your phone the hub of all your social networking a la Motoblur, so you can view all of your contacts – and ways to contact them – in one place.

This includes pulling in details from Facebook, MSN and Google Talk, with Twitter promised to be coming "very, very soon".

The M1 is expected to be distributed worldwide over 2009 and 2010, but no exact dates as to when we can expect it here.

We're chasing Samsung and Vodafone now for the details and we'll update you as soon as we have them. In the meantime be sure to check out our hands on impressions with the 360 service and the H1 handset, and let us know what you think below.

Samsung i5700 Spica Review

When it arrives, the i5700 Spica this Android smartphone will come armed with an AMOLED touchscreen. You might be wondering what makes it different from the earlier i7500 phone that Samsung brought to you sometime ago. Samsung will be lifting the wraps off its Android phone as a follower to its entry-level i7500 model.

The fact is that the new smartphone will be almost similar to the i7500. The difference, if any would be the presence of a 3.2MP flash-less camera and 100MB of internal memory. We, at this point, wonder why Samsung has made provisions for only 100MB for apps. May be, the phone maker will do something about that just in time for the release.

Other features include the usual ones – Bluetooth, HSPDA and Wi-Fi . The Galaxy Lite will come powered by a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7200A processor and will also house GPS and FM radio features. With video demos doing the rounds, we believe the official launch may not be far off.

Samsung i5700 Spica Review

When it arrives, the i5700 Spica this Android smartphone will come armed with an AMOLED touchscreen. You might be wondering what makes it different from the earlier i7500 phone that Samsung brought to you sometime ago. Samsung will be lifting the wraps off its Android phone as a follower to its entry-level i7500 model.

The fact is that the new smartphone will be almost similar to the i7500. The difference, if any would be the presence of a 3.2MP flash-less camera and 100MB of internal memory. We, at this point, wonder why Samsung has made provisions for only 100MB for apps. May be, the phone maker will do something about that just in time for the release.

Other features include the usual ones – Bluetooth, HSPDA and Wi-Fi . The Galaxy Lite will come powered by a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7200A processor and will also house GPS and FM radio features. With video demos doing the rounds, we believe the official launch may not be far off.

Samsung Omnia HD Review

As Samsung made an impressive showing at the GSMA World Congress it's difficult to pick one of its new phones as the most notable. Yet, the company's Omnia HD certainly would be in the running. We had the opportunity to check it out while visiting with Samsung in Barcelona, Spain. Though the Omnia HD is the next-generation model of the existing Omnia, it shows a few design differences. The curved ends give it a more eye-catching, aerodynamic look. It's also slightly bigger than its predecessor is, but we'll gladly take the extra heft with the stunning 2.7-inch 3.7-inch, 16 million-color display. In all ways, it's bright and beautiful--colors were vibrant, graphics were sharp and video lives up the HD name.

The display uses Samsung's TouchWiz interface with a customizable widget bar on the left side. The touch interface for both finger swiping and selecting icons was responsive and the Symbian interface is intuitive. The display works in landscape and includes an accelerometer for certain functions like the virtual QWERTY keyboard. Speaking of which, the keyboard is very comfortable, thanks to the display's large size. We had no problems tapping away.

The three physical controls below the display include Talk and End/power button; they're rather thin, but we didn't find them to be problematic. There's a single VGA camera lens above the display for video calling while the main lens for the 8-megapixel shooter is located on the rear. It has a flash but no sliding lens cover. Other exterior controls include a volume rocker on the left spine and a camera shutter, a screen lock control and a Micro-USB port on the right spine. The headset jack is located conveniently on the top of the device, but the memory card slot is behind the battery cover.

Features include HSDPA 3G support an 8-megapixel camera, an FM radio, assisted-GPS, Bluetooth, a music player, organizer applications, a speakerphone, and Wi-Fi.

Samsung Omnia HD Review

As Samsung made an impressive showing at the GSMA World Congress it's difficult to pick one of its new phones as the most notable. Yet, the company's Omnia HD certainly would be in the running. We had the opportunity to check it out while visiting with Samsung in Barcelona, Spain. Though the Omnia HD is the next-generation model of the existing Omnia, it shows a few design differences. The curved ends give it a more eye-catching, aerodynamic look. It's also slightly bigger than its predecessor is, but we'll gladly take the extra heft with the stunning 2.7-inch 3.7-inch, 16 million-color display. In all ways, it's bright and beautiful--colors were vibrant, graphics were sharp and video lives up the HD name.

The display uses Samsung's TouchWiz interface with a customizable widget bar on the left side. The touch interface for both finger swiping and selecting icons was responsive and the Symbian interface is intuitive. The display works in landscape and includes an accelerometer for certain functions like the virtual QWERTY keyboard. Speaking of which, the keyboard is very comfortable, thanks to the display's large size. We had no problems tapping away.

The three physical controls below the display include Talk and End/power button; they're rather thin, but we didn't find them to be problematic. There's a single VGA camera lens above the display for video calling while the main lens for the 8-megapixel shooter is located on the rear. It has a flash but no sliding lens cover. Other exterior controls include a volume rocker on the left spine and a camera shutter, a screen lock control and a Micro-USB port on the right spine. The headset jack is located conveniently on the top of the device, but the memory card slot is behind the battery cover.

Features include HSDPA 3G support an 8-megapixel camera, an FM radio, assisted-GPS, Bluetooth, a music player, organizer applications, a speakerphone, and Wi-Fi.

Samsung Jet Review

Over the past decade, Samsung is trying to reach its goal which they have one thing in mind, and that is to grow their annual sales and intro-perspective markets which are based on the demand of the customers who are attracted to innovative types of mobile phones like Samsung. Samsung has been very successful year after year, as new models launched every two to three months, more and more people are attracted to any of those Samsung phones, either in a simple type, slide type or “open-close” type. Now, another great model has risen and evolved, and it could be a big hit to the mobile phone market soon, which Samsung now opens its doors to introduce the newest and revolutionized Samsung Jet Smartphone.

It has awesome quality features when this phone invades the Samsung world, with its high definition features like the TouchWiz 2.0 user interface with motion UI, widget screen that can be customized, and a smart unlock feature that the users will enable this phone to unlock the phone and a menu execution will appear directly, in terms of drawing alphabets on the touch screen. Touch screens are one of the best features that any compatible device that have this kind of feature, in which you can select the menus by a point of the finger, or use a specialized touch-screen pen or stick which are compatible to their respective touch screen phones like IPhone. This Samsung Jet Smartphone touch screen device has an amazing feature which has a processor of 800MHz, and its main operating system, the Dolphin web browser was included. The dimensions of Samsung Jet SmartPhone are smaller compared to popular IPhones like Apple, which are to be known as one of the best-selling phones in town, and that results to a tough competition between the two parties.

Samsung Jet Smartphone also full-packed with awesome multimedia features, which includes DNSe, 5MP Camera, SRS sound effect technology for enhanced sound system, built-in GPS, and XVid and DivX for support of downloading videos and good quality viewing purposes. The best thing for their GPS is that they have a feature called geo-tagging, which a geo-magnetic sensor was enabled to send more traffic updates on their conditions in terms of SMS. GPS can be set to either “Walk to” or “Drive to” modes. GPS system also has a compass and information regarding the location of links for navigating purposes.

Samsung Jet Smartphone also has a unique screen which you can view up to 180 degrees, and it only consumes energy to about 30% to 40% than any mobile phone which are totally equipped with TFT-LCD display. Because of the 800MHz processor, Jet is claimed to be the handset with the fastest full-touch feature ever to be professionally designed worldwide. They also claimed that the Samsung Jet Smartphone is the first ever phone that was professionally designed to success, which the feature of this amazing phone is to implement the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Email System, which offers good quality streamline user interface which results to the improvement of push-emails for any types of users either for business or for entertainment, it doesn’t matter, as long as this phone really shows up good competition to other huge-producing rival companies like Nokia and Ericsson. This amazing phone is highlighted or equipped with “one-finger zoom”, which the one-hand operation is enabled either to zoom in and out of the screen, and it deals with the Samsung’s Dolphin web browser that users may zoom in like a magnifier that they can see such small texts in any file type like PDF, TXT, PPT and other related files to it.

Samsung Jet Smartphone was also equipped with the 3.1 inch 16M WVGA AMOLED screen, which is four times more powerful and better than any types of mobile phones with WQVGA screen, and it claims to be “the most colorful and vivid full-touch mobile” ever in a experience that will change the way of communication, business and entertainment. Along with all of these features, it also has a “motion gate” feature, which the users will grant full access to speed dialing by flipping, tapping or tilting the phone, as well as the multimedia content. It was such a good thing that anything will happen as long as the presence of technology being designed and developed by Samsung, it will certainly make the company successful, just like the brand new Samsung Jet Smartphone. Thousands and millions of shoppers worldwide are now looking for such amazing phones which have great and unique features, which were never seen before, and if they want something new to their pocket, then Samsung Jet Smartphone is what they’re looking for right now as it launches in the big market soon.

Samsung Jet Review

Over the past decade, Samsung is trying to reach its goal which they have one thing in mind, and that is to grow their annual sales and intro-perspective markets which are based on the demand of the customers who are attracted to innovative types of mobile phones like Samsung. Samsung has been very successful year after year, as new models launched every two to three months, more and more people are attracted to any of those Samsung phones, either in a simple type, slide type or “open-close” type. Now, another great model has risen and evolved, and it could be a big hit to the mobile phone market soon, which Samsung now opens its doors to introduce the newest and revolutionized Samsung Jet Smartphone.

It has awesome quality features when this phone invades the Samsung world, with its high definition features like the TouchWiz 2.0 user interface with motion UI, widget screen that can be customized, and a smart unlock feature that the users will enable this phone to unlock the phone and a menu execution will appear directly, in terms of drawing alphabets on the touch screen. Touch screens are one of the best features that any compatible device that have this kind of feature, in which you can select the menus by a point of the finger, or use a specialized touch-screen pen or stick which are compatible to their respective touch screen phones like IPhone. This Samsung Jet Smartphone touch screen device has an amazing feature which has a processor of 800MHz, and its main operating system, the Dolphin web browser was included. The dimensions of Samsung Jet SmartPhone are smaller compared to popular IPhones like Apple, which are to be known as one of the best-selling phones in town, and that results to a tough competition between the two parties.

Samsung Jet Smartphone also full-packed with awesome multimedia features, which includes DNSe, 5MP Camera, SRS sound effect technology for enhanced sound system, built-in GPS, and XVid and DivX for support of downloading videos and good quality viewing purposes. The best thing for their GPS is that they have a feature called geo-tagging, which a geo-magnetic sensor was enabled to send more traffic updates on their conditions in terms of SMS. GPS can be set to either “Walk to” or “Drive to” modes. GPS system also has a compass and information regarding the location of links for navigating purposes.

Samsung Jet Smartphone also has a unique screen which you can view up to 180 degrees, and it only consumes energy to about 30% to 40% than any mobile phone which are totally equipped with TFT-LCD display. Because of the 800MHz processor, Jet is claimed to be the handset with the fastest full-touch feature ever to be professionally designed worldwide. They also claimed that the Samsung Jet Smartphone is the first ever phone that was professionally designed to success, which the feature of this amazing phone is to implement the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Email System, which offers good quality streamline user interface which results to the improvement of push-emails for any types of users either for business or for entertainment, it doesn’t matter, as long as this phone really shows up good competition to other huge-producing rival companies like Nokia and Ericsson. This amazing phone is highlighted or equipped with “one-finger zoom”, which the one-hand operation is enabled either to zoom in and out of the screen, and it deals with the Samsung’s Dolphin web browser that users may zoom in like a magnifier that they can see such small texts in any file type like PDF, TXT, PPT and other related files to it.

Samsung Jet Smartphone was also equipped with the 3.1 inch 16M WVGA AMOLED screen, which is four times more powerful and better than any types of mobile phones with WQVGA screen, and it claims to be “the most colorful and vivid full-touch mobile” ever in a experience that will change the way of communication, business and entertainment. Along with all of these features, it also has a “motion gate” feature, which the users will grant full access to speed dialing by flipping, tapping or tilting the phone, as well as the multimedia content. It was such a good thing that anything will happen as long as the presence of technology being designed and developed by Samsung, it will certainly make the company successful, just like the brand new Samsung Jet Smartphone. Thousands and millions of shoppers worldwide are now looking for such amazing phones which have great and unique features, which were never seen before, and if they want something new to their pocket, then Samsung Jet Smartphone is what they’re looking for right now as it launches in the big market soon.

Samsung Pixon 12

Samsung has been built for greatness, and for some reason, they love to enhance the way designers are made to develop enhanced technology in which models are designed for greatness, and more importantly, the marketing strategy on which they must target to build and attract more customers to buy their phones in any mobile phone stores or in malls worldwide. Today, another amazing phone was born, and it will be a great competitor to other types of models in its respective brand and other rival companies like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Alcatel and other phone brands, and the one we’re talking about is the all-new Samsung Pixon 12.

Can anybody tell why is it called Samsung Pixon 12? You may wonder why Samsung definitely named this kind of amazing phone. There is one main reason. Samsung Pixon 12 is professionally designed to be the first ever phone, with 12 MP digicam, to be created which no other company had ever done this before. It is going to be a spectacular phone which has an amazing unique feature, which Samsung Pixon 12 guarantees you nothing at all except in which they have the largest file sizes in the industry, which is complemented by decent specs that starts with an FM radio, 3G features, and a 3.1 inch AMOLED touchscreen.

Its internal storage is a huge 150 MB that could store up to a thousand pictures you ever stored, but there’s a disadvantage, which in this stage for a camera-centric phone, it is glaringly weak when it releases to the big market. However, it can be bundled with SD cards that are compatible to this phone, but it is not yet necessary for now. Customers are just relying on the quality of this phone, and that’s what Samsung Pixon 12 really does have good quality, enhanced features and easy to handle. Its shooting speed is much quicker than the average digicam, which clocks at about two seconds per shot. It also has an amazing feature which is the touch autofocus, which allows the user to choose a focal point by pointing your finger in the targeted menu, and the result will be, the camera will now focus on its subject automatically. The superstar feature of this amazing phone is the flash-equipped camera itself. You know why? It is the main feature that with the 12 MP, capturing quality moments is what we’re relying on.

For some years, camera has evolved in the quality of shooting and capturing moments, when it was invented in the late 19th century only thing is that, color is not present in that era, until in the late 70’s or 80’s, it develops color, but sad to say, quality is not yet good, until now, we find ways to enhance good quality of our pictures in order to develop and post it in our photo albums, in which we need digicam for that. Why don’t we say let’s move to a device which you need 100% quality of your camera shots and also improved communication in one place? If we think that this is what we need, then Samsung Pixon 12 is the right one to buy and own.

Samsung Pixon 12

Samsung has been built for greatness, and for some reason, they love to enhance the way designers are made to develop enhanced technology in which models are designed for greatness, and more importantly, the marketing strategy on which they must target to build and attract more customers to buy their phones in any mobile phone stores or in malls worldwide. Today, another amazing phone was born, and it will be a great competitor to other types of models in its respective brand and other rival companies like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Alcatel and other phone brands, and the one we’re talking about is the all-new Samsung Pixon 12.

Can anybody tell why is it called Samsung Pixon 12? You may wonder why Samsung definitely named this kind of amazing phone. There is one main reason. Samsung Pixon 12 is professionally designed to be the first ever phone, with 12 MP digicam, to be created which no other company had ever done this before. It is going to be a spectacular phone which has an amazing unique feature, which Samsung Pixon 12 guarantees you nothing at all except in which they have the largest file sizes in the industry, which is complemented by decent specs that starts with an FM radio, 3G features, and a 3.1 inch AMOLED touchscreen.

Its internal storage is a huge 150 MB that could store up to a thousand pictures you ever stored, but there’s a disadvantage, which in this stage for a camera-centric phone, it is glaringly weak when it releases to the big market. However, it can be bundled with SD cards that are compatible to this phone, but it is not yet necessary for now. Customers are just relying on the quality of this phone, and that’s what Samsung Pixon 12 really does have good quality, enhanced features and easy to handle. Its shooting speed is much quicker than the average digicam, which clocks at about two seconds per shot. It also has an amazing feature which is the touch autofocus, which allows the user to choose a focal point by pointing your finger in the targeted menu, and the result will be, the camera will now focus on its subject automatically. The superstar feature of this amazing phone is the flash-equipped camera itself. You know why? It is the main feature that with the 12 MP, capturing quality moments is what we’re relying on.

For some years, camera has evolved in the quality of shooting and capturing moments, when it was invented in the late 19th century only thing is that, color is not present in that era, until in the late 70’s or 80’s, it develops color, but sad to say, quality is not yet good, until now, we find ways to enhance good quality of our pictures in order to develop and post it in our photo albums, in which we need digicam for that. Why don’t we say let’s move to a device which you need 100% quality of your camera shots and also improved communication in one place? If we think that this is what we need, then Samsung Pixon 12 is the right one to buy and own.

Samsung Armani GT-V7650

Local electronics makers are locked in a competition to create the perfect premium smart phone - and it's about to get even fiercer. Italian luxury brand Giorgio Armani teamed up with Samsung Electronics to launch the new GT-V7650 smart phone in Milan Friday.

Three companies [Samsung Electronics, Giorgio Armani, Microsoft] which each represent their respective industry have met to create the ultimate smart phone with an innovative design, cutting-edge technology and the most recent software, said Hong Won-pyo, vice president of Samsung Electronics™ product strategy division.

The rose bronze-colored smart phone, one of the first mobile devices to be powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5, has wireless Internet connectivity and was designed by Giorgio Armani himself. It also includes GPS and camera functions.

This is Samsung's third collaboration with the fashion brand. The first Giorgio Armani-Samsung phone was launched in 2007, followed by the Emporio Armani-Samsung phone called "Night Effect" last year. The three Armani-Samsung handsets have not launched in Korea yet, but Samsung said that they will bring the new edition in the local market this month.

And just in time, since the high-end designer phone trend has been gaining speed here over recent months. Last month, Pantech, Korea's third-largest mobile phone manufacturer after Samsung and LG Electronics, launched a touch screen phone with French luxury pen company Dupont priced in the 800,000 won ($687) range. The IM-U510LE model targets professional men over the age of 30 who subscribe to 2G network service through SK Telecom. The handset includes the original S.T. Dupont logo on its front and is decorated in 18-karat gold. Pantech said that it might consider launching the phone overseas if it is well received in Korea.

Perhaps Samsung's biggest competition in this field is LG's Prada phone. LG Electronics has also been collaborating with luxury Italian fashion house Prada in launching its Prada and Prada 2 phones. This second version launched in Korea in June at a retail price of 1.8 million won.

Samsung Armani GT-V7650

Local electronics makers are locked in a competition to create the perfect premium smart phone - and it's about to get even fiercer. Italian luxury brand Giorgio Armani teamed up with Samsung Electronics to launch the new GT-V7650 smart phone in Milan Friday.

Three companies [Samsung Electronics, Giorgio Armani, Microsoft] which each represent their respective industry have met to create the ultimate smart phone with an innovative design, cutting-edge technology and the most recent software, said Hong Won-pyo, vice president of Samsung Electronics™ product strategy division.

The rose bronze-colored smart phone, one of the first mobile devices to be powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5, has wireless Internet connectivity and was designed by Giorgio Armani himself. It also includes GPS and camera functions.

This is Samsung's third collaboration with the fashion brand. The first Giorgio Armani-Samsung phone was launched in 2007, followed by the Emporio Armani-Samsung phone called "Night Effect" last year. The three Armani-Samsung handsets have not launched in Korea yet, but Samsung said that they will bring the new edition in the local market this month.

And just in time, since the high-end designer phone trend has been gaining speed here over recent months. Last month, Pantech, Korea's third-largest mobile phone manufacturer after Samsung and LG Electronics, launched a touch screen phone with French luxury pen company Dupont priced in the 800,000 won ($687) range. The IM-U510LE model targets professional men over the age of 30 who subscribe to 2G network service through SK Telecom. The handset includes the original S.T. Dupont logo on its front and is decorated in 18-karat gold. Pantech said that it might consider launching the phone overseas if it is well received in Korea.

Perhaps Samsung's biggest competition in this field is LG's Prada phone. LG Electronics has also been collaborating with luxury Italian fashion house Prada in launching its Prada and Prada 2 phones. This second version launched in Korea in June at a retail price of 1.8 million won.

Samsung Intrepid Review

If you're not willing to shell out $300 for a phone running Windows 6.5, check out the Samsung Intrepid on Sprint. If the Intrepid looks familiar, it's because the Intrepid is the successor to the Samsung Ace, which the Intrepid will replace on Sprint. The Intrepid sports a 2.5-inch touchscreen with a full QWERTY keyboard below it. One of its biggest draws for business customers is its support for international roaming. It also supports stereo Bluetooth, and has Wi-Fi connectivity and a 3.2-megapixel camera with video recording.

The Intrepid is the first Windows phone to support Microsoft's TellMe service for voice dialing and texting, which my colleague Jared Newman found to work quite well. It also comes loaded with Sprint Navigation, Microsoft Office Mobile, and the Smart Read business card scanner. The Intrepid is now available from Sprint for $150 with a two-year contract.

Samsung Intrepid Review

If you're not willing to shell out $300 for a phone running Windows 6.5, check out the Samsung Intrepid on Sprint. If the Intrepid looks familiar, it's because the Intrepid is the successor to the Samsung Ace, which the Intrepid will replace on Sprint. The Intrepid sports a 2.5-inch touchscreen with a full QWERTY keyboard below it. One of its biggest draws for business customers is its support for international roaming. It also supports stereo Bluetooth, and has Wi-Fi connectivity and a 3.2-megapixel camera with video recording.

The Intrepid is the first Windows phone to support Microsoft's TellMe service for voice dialing and texting, which my colleague Jared Newman found to work quite well. It also comes loaded with Sprint Navigation, Microsoft Office Mobile, and the Smart Read business card scanner. The Intrepid is now available from Sprint for $150 with a two-year contract.

Samsung Behold II Review

T-Mobile continued its commitment to the Open Handset Alliance and introduced its fourth Google Android device, the Samsung Behold II.

The Behold II is scheduled to launch later this year, though a specific release date and pricing were not announced at this time. It's the first Android smartphone by Samsung to be released in the United States and joins the carrier's other Google devices, which include T-Mobile G1, the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G, and the upcoming Motorola Cliq.

Just like HTC and Motorola, Samsung has put its own spin on the Android operating system by using its next-generation TouchWiz interface, which allows you customized three different home screens with various widgets and shortcuts. In addition, the Behold II features a "cube menu" that provides access to six multimedia features: music, photos, videos, the Web, YouTube, and Amazon MP3. You can interact with all of these features through the smartphone's 3.2-inch AMOLED touch screen.

Other highlights of the Samsung Behold II include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, a 5-megapixel camera, and up 16GB expandable memory via the microSD slot. Samsung stated that the smartphone follows on the success of its Samsung Behold and takes it to the next level with the addition of Android, bringing support for Google services and Exchange ActiveSync.

While a specific availability date wasn't released, T-Mobile said the Behold II will arrive in time for the holidays.

Samsung Behold II Review

T-Mobile continued its commitment to the Open Handset Alliance and introduced its fourth Google Android device, the Samsung Behold II.

The Behold II is scheduled to launch later this year, though a specific release date and pricing were not announced at this time. It's the first Android smartphone by Samsung to be released in the United States and joins the carrier's other Google devices, which include T-Mobile G1, the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G, and the upcoming Motorola Cliq.

Just like HTC and Motorola, Samsung has put its own spin on the Android operating system by using its next-generation TouchWiz interface, which allows you customized three different home screens with various widgets and shortcuts. In addition, the Behold II features a "cube menu" that provides access to six multimedia features: music, photos, videos, the Web, YouTube, and Amazon MP3. You can interact with all of these features through the smartphone's 3.2-inch AMOLED touch screen.

Other highlights of the Samsung Behold II include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, a 5-megapixel camera, and up 16GB expandable memory via the microSD slot. Samsung stated that the smartphone follows on the success of its Samsung Behold and takes it to the next level with the addition of Android, bringing support for Google services and Exchange ActiveSync.

While a specific availability date wasn't released, T-Mobile said the Behold II will arrive in time for the holidays.

Vodafone 360 H1 Review

The Vodafone 360 H1, a new Samsung handset fused with Vodafone 360's online skills, has just been announced, and it's packing even more tech than the lust worthy Jet. Read on for the info.


Similar to the Samsung Jet, the Samsung H1 packs an OLED touchscreen, but it's even bigger at 3.5-inches. Naturally the Vodafone 360 H1 is running the new Vodafone 360 interface with social network access integrated, but there's also a 5MP camera, 16GB on board, GPS, Wi-Fi, HSDPA and supports push email.

There's no pricing on the Vodafone 360 H1 just yet, but if you want something swish for a bit cheaper, the lower end Vodafone 360 M1 by Samsung has also been announced. It's got a dinkier, 3.2-inch TFT touchscreen, HSDPA, a 3MP camera, GPS and 1GB of storage expandable via microSD.

Both the Vodafone 360 H1 and Vodafone 360 M1 should launch before year out, and their product pages are live now over on Vodafone’s official site.

Vodafone 360 H1 Review

The Vodafone 360 H1, a new Samsung handset fused with Vodafone 360's online skills, has just been announced, and it's packing even more tech than the lust worthy Jet. Read on for the info.


Similar to the Samsung Jet, the Samsung H1 packs an OLED touchscreen, but it's even bigger at 3.5-inches. Naturally the Vodafone 360 H1 is running the new Vodafone 360 interface with social network access integrated, but there's also a 5MP camera, 16GB on board, GPS, Wi-Fi, HSDPA and supports push email.

There's no pricing on the Vodafone 360 H1 just yet, but if you want something swish for a bit cheaper, the lower end Vodafone 360 M1 by Samsung has also been announced. It's got a dinkier, 3.2-inch TFT touchscreen, HSDPA, a 3MP camera, GPS and 1GB of storage expandable via microSD.

Both the Vodafone 360 H1 and Vodafone 360 M1 should launch before year out, and their product pages are live now over on Vodafone’s official site.

Samsung Rogue Review

The Samsung Rogue is a sleek messaging phone with a full touch display that provides an optimized messaging experience with a horizontal slide-out, four-row QWERTY keyboard, threaded messaging and one-touch access to popular social networking widgets, including Facebook®, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Photobucket. The Samsung Rogue also features innovative speech capabilities powered by Nuance that allow customers to launch and control a variety of applications and services with simple voice commands as well as dictate text messages.

The Samsung Rogue will serve as the flagship phone for the company’s new data pricing option available to customers beginning today. The new data pricing gives Verizon Wireless customers more freedom to select how much data and the type of data they want to use. Samsung Rogue customers who want to check e-mail; surf the Web; and download applications, games or ringtones will be able to select either a 25 MB for $9.99 monthly access option or a 75 MB for $19.99 monthly access option to couple with their Nationwide plan.

Customers who want to watch full-length TV shows plus news, sports, weather and live entertainment video clips can also add Verizon Wireless’ new V CAST Video on Demand plan that gives customers access to unlimited basic video clips, ESPN MVP and unlimited megabytes for their V CAST Video usage for $10.00 monthly. The new V CAST Video on Demand plan replaces the $15.00 V CAST VPak. These changes will not impact existing customers.

Following are additional key features and specifications for the Samsung Rogue.

Available in bronze/black color
3.1-inch ultra-brilliant touch screen
Widescreen WVGA AMOLED (Wide Video Graphics Array Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) responsive touch screen results in one of the brightest and clearest displays on a mobile phone in the United States
Slide out horizontally to reveal a four-row QWERTY keypad
Full HTML Web browsing capabilities with one-touch access to social networking sites via shortcut widgets
Full messaging suite including SMS, MMS, Mobile IM, Mobile Email and Corporate Email
3.0 megapixel camera with flash and video capture and on-device editing capabilities
Supports Verizon Wireless services including V CAST Music with Rhapsody, V CAST Video, and Visual Voice Mail
Media Center-capable - downloadable games, ringtones, wallpapers, location-based services, such as VZ NavigatorSM and Chaperone®, and more
Pre-loaded games including “NEED FOR SPEEDTM Undercover,” “Resident Evil: Degeneration,” and “Tetris® and Dice”
microSDTM card slot with support for up to 16 GB (card purchased separately)
File Viewer can view Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Excel®, Microsoft® PowerPoint® and Adobe® PDF documents stored on a memory card

Samsung Rogue Review

The Samsung Rogue is a sleek messaging phone with a full touch display that provides an optimized messaging experience with a horizontal slide-out, four-row QWERTY keyboard, threaded messaging and one-touch access to popular social networking widgets, including Facebook®, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Photobucket. The Samsung Rogue also features innovative speech capabilities powered by Nuance that allow customers to launch and control a variety of applications and services with simple voice commands as well as dictate text messages.

The Samsung Rogue will serve as the flagship phone for the company’s new data pricing option available to customers beginning today. The new data pricing gives Verizon Wireless customers more freedom to select how much data and the type of data they want to use. Samsung Rogue customers who want to check e-mail; surf the Web; and download applications, games or ringtones will be able to select either a 25 MB for $9.99 monthly access option or a 75 MB for $19.99 monthly access option to couple with their Nationwide plan.

Customers who want to watch full-length TV shows plus news, sports, weather and live entertainment video clips can also add Verizon Wireless’ new V CAST Video on Demand plan that gives customers access to unlimited basic video clips, ESPN MVP and unlimited megabytes for their V CAST Video usage for $10.00 monthly. The new V CAST Video on Demand plan replaces the $15.00 V CAST VPak. These changes will not impact existing customers.

Following are additional key features and specifications for the Samsung Rogue.

Available in bronze/black color
3.1-inch ultra-brilliant touch screen
Widescreen WVGA AMOLED (Wide Video Graphics Array Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) responsive touch screen results in one of the brightest and clearest displays on a mobile phone in the United States
Slide out horizontally to reveal a four-row QWERTY keypad
Full HTML Web browsing capabilities with one-touch access to social networking sites via shortcut widgets
Full messaging suite including SMS, MMS, Mobile IM, Mobile Email and Corporate Email
3.0 megapixel camera with flash and video capture and on-device editing capabilities
Supports Verizon Wireless services including V CAST Music with Rhapsody, V CAST Video, and Visual Voice Mail
Media Center-capable - downloadable games, ringtones, wallpapers, location-based services, such as VZ NavigatorSM and Chaperone®, and more
Pre-loaded games including “NEED FOR SPEEDTM Undercover,” “Resident Evil: Degeneration,” and “Tetris® and Dice”
microSDTM card slot with support for up to 16 GB (card purchased separately)
File Viewer can view Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Excel®, Microsoft® PowerPoint® and Adobe® PDF documents stored on a memory card