We’ve talked a lot about the Samsung Instinct and its cool functionalities. We’ve also participated at an online presentation hosted by Sprint, where we found several new details about the upcoming full-touchscreen model while watching the demonstration of several capabilities this amazing cell phone comes with but until it will be available we want to show you a new advanced handset, the beautiful Samsung Tacco aka Samsung F480.
It too features full touch-sensitive interface with haptics and looks very similar with the Instinct, but brings some innovative characteristics such as a unique customizable user interface and the brushed metal finish, in a protective leather case.
“Tocco” name comes from the Italian verb “toccar” which means “to touch”. The “tocco” form of this verb is the first person form referring at “I touch”.
Now let’s get back to the specifications! Samsung Tocco integrates a 5MP camera with automatic face detection and image stabilizer like in digital cameras, a 2.8-inch large QVGA LCD display of 362K colors, and full Internet browser for great viewability while reading stuff on the Internet.
It gives you access to music recognition features, a 240MB internal music memory, memory card slot for up to 8GB of media storage and an FM radio for listening to your favorite tunes while on the go.
Thanks to the widgets-based menu you can drag-and-drop things like on your computer and play with birthday reminders, music player and radio player.
One nice aspect is its small size, almost of a credit card and with a stylish body measuring just 11.6 mm thickness. Another nicer aspect is that you can download things that interest you with a speed of up to 7.2Mbps because the Smartphone supports HSDP connectivity standard.
Samsung Tocco runs on the Croix UI operating system.

The company is investing £3.5 million in its advertising campaign and we can’t wait to find out more about it!
At the moment we also know that the cool cell phone has Bluetooth 2.0 support with A2DP and AVRCP, Mobile Printing capability and a talk time of up to 3 hours using a Li-Ion battery of 1000 mAh.

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The new SPH-W4950(similar with D500) packs a lot in its slider form factor with support for CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Rev.A. Although it can’t be called a media powerhouse, the W4950 has covered the bases with an mp3/video player and a 1.3-megapixel camera with a secondary VGA for video calling. In addition to the 40MB of internal memory, the W4950 has a microSD/TransFlash memory slot to store your favorite numbers or the pics of your loved ones. The phone can remain on standby for up to 165 hours and provide up to 4.5 hours of talktime.

There is no word on availability or pricing yet.

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Samsung today introduced Samsung L870.The 13.5-mm thin phone pumps Symbian v9.3 and S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 at its core with a 3 megapixel camera, 2.4-inch QVGA display, FM radio, Stereo Bluetooth, and microSD expansion.

Samsung L870 Specifications:

* Network: HSDPA (2100MHz) 3.6Mbps + EDGE/GPRS 900/1800/1900
* Display: 2.4″ QVGA 16M Color TFT
* Camera: 3-Megapixel Camera
* Operating System: Symbian 9.3
* S60 3.2
* Safari browser (full browsing)
* New Thematic UI
* Quick Office document viewer
* Push Email (Visto, Seven, Intellysync, Good)
* Advanced PIM Applications
* Music Player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, RA, AMR, WMA)
* Video Player (H.263 + AMR, MPEG4, Real One, WMV)
* FM Radio (RDS)
* Bluetooth v.2.0 EDR / USB 2.0 (Full Speed)
* Memory: 100MB internal memory + Micro SD up to 4GB
* Size: 103.5 x 50.5 x 13.5mm

Samsung L870 will first be launched in Europe around August, then will continue to be available in all regions where GSM is available.

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Seoul, South Korea, May 22, 2008 - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading mobile phone and telecommunication equipment provider, today announced the launch of its Samsung F480. With this latest full touch screen mobile, Samsung is able to enhance its position as a leading player in the hugely popular touch screen mobile market.

“The F480 is a significant addition to our touch screen mobile portfolio, bringing a totally new and exciting user experience. The F480 is just the first in a series of touch-screen mobiles we are launching this year, to provide our consumers with a more rewarding and engaging user interface; one that’s more fun, easier to use and more personal.” said Geesung Choi, President of Samsung’s Telecommunication Business.

Industry-leading Touch Experience blended with compact and sleek Design

The Samsung F480 combines a new and unique TOUCHWiZ UI, having specially designed widgets to customise and personalise the way you use your phone, packaged in a slim and premium form.

The quick and simple ‘drag and drop’ feature lets users have instant access to their favourite functions at a moment’s touch. A unique menu of widgets display functions such as the clock, radio player, music player and more personal elements including photos and birthday reminders, which users can ‘drag and drop’ onto their home screens to suit their personal needs. Samsung’s differentiated tactile technology also gives users a tangible and pleasing feedback sensation when items are selected.

“Samsung’s F480 has been designed with its users in mind, ensuring that its aesthetically pleasing design was equally matched when it came to the way that users interact with the mobile.” said Jay Kim from Samsung’s UX Design Team.

“Our TOUCHWiZ UI, housed within this slim and minimalist design, means that Samsung has secured its position at the forefront of the market.” said Kim.

The ultra-slim credit card size and refined texture make the F480 smooth and stylish. The chic, brushed metal finish gives it visual sophistication, further enhanced by its premium leather case, which also serves to protect the touch screen when you’re on the move.

The smart and emotional touch interface coupled with its sophisticated design appeal to users who are looking for the latest functionality and enjoy expressing their individuality.

Seamless Connectivity and Multimedia Entertainment

Despite its slim 11.6 mm body, the F480 also boasts all the multimedia functions you would expect from a premium Samsung mobile. This includes 240 MB of internal music memory, a memory card with up to 8GB storage, an integrated FM radio, a 5 megapixel camera featuring auto focus and a CMOS video lens.

In addition, the phone also offers high-end camera features which are better known on a digital SLR than a camera phone, such as automatic face detection technology and a sophisticated image stabiliser.

The ‘smile shot’ mode makes its first appearance ever on a mobile phone in the Samsung F480. This intelligent feature enables the camera to detect when the subject is smiling and automatically take a picture, so you can capture your happiest moments.

The F480’s high speed internet access (HSDPA) and USB 2.0 connectivity enables users to transfer and download data faster. Whether they are music or video files, customers can enjoy all the benefits of being online on-the-go.

The launch will be supported with a European advertising campaign. The F480 will be available from June in major European markets and soon across other GSM regions. To learn more about the F480 and Samsung’s mobile technology and handsets, please visit www.samsungmobile.com

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Mobile.cz today has received more info about SGH-L870 handset; will be launched next month during Communic Asia on June 17th in Singapore or during Computex show in Taipei on June 03-07.If all the information are correct it seems that the exterior Samsung L870 has been somewhat updated in the meantime. To give it Samsung Soul like appearance, L870 slider has received a similar interactive touchpad

Other Samsung L870 specs include:

* Tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900), 2100 UMTS, 3.6Mbs HSDPA connectivity
* Symbian 9.3 S60 3.2 OS
* 2.3″ 260K color QVGA 240×320px display
* 3 megapixel camera, + VGA front camera for video calls
* FM radio with RDS
* USB 2.0 and Bluetooth 2.0
* microSD memory card slot

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

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


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

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

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Virgin Mobile official announced the Samsung Slash. The slider is now known to sit slightly above most of Virgin’s offerings with a VGA camera and Bluetooth; it also provides MP3 ringtone support as well as preloaded games and an extra-large 499-entry phonebook, measuring 3.8″ x 1.8″ x 0.7″.

The Slash is marketed chiefly on its price and should be available soon through the company’s online store for $80. Stores should also offer the phone as of today.

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Just one month after Samsung has introduced their new SGH-i900 smartphone in Dutch, some retail shops in China Wu Han have start selling the new windows mobile smartphone. They have even got two version, the i900 for worldwide and the i908 for chinese market.


Running Windows Mobile 6.1, the i900 has a 3.5-inch touch screen with 240 x 400 pixel resolution. The smartphone do not have a cool UI like Touch3D, the UI in the photo shot is just simply, boring. Now here is how you may want to own one of the i900. It has a built in 5 megapixel camera, xenon flash module, GPS chipset, WiFi, FM radio receiver and support 3.5G HSDPA and GSM Quadband network. Not enough, before you need to use a microSD card to fuel your storage space, it has a 16GB ready to use built in memory, big enough for most of the users.

The Samsung i900 is currently available at around 500 USD. Check out the full specification below:

*Network: GSM Quadband 850/900/1800/1900
*Size: 112 x 56 x 13mm
*Display: 3.5-inch 256k colors TFT Touch Screen, 240 x 400 pixel
*OS: Windows Mobile 6.1
*Camera: 5 megapixel, autofocus, Xenon Flash
*Secondary video camera, extra white LED to help in low light condition
*Bluetooth
*WiFi
*GPS
*16GB built in memory
*microSD card slot
*1500 mAh battery

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Samsung announced the launch of Samsung F400, a dual slider music phone equipped with ICEpower technology by Bang & Olufsen ICEpower. The music phone featuring Smart Bass, which provides rich, deep and powerful sound, and Smart Limiter which ensures an audio signal to not exceed the amplitude of the threshold.

Many other latest sound enhancing technologies are also embedded within F400, such as Digital Natural Sound engine (DNSe) 2.0 which brings an ideal and customized sonic experience for every genre of music. All the great music features are easily accessible by simply pressing a music hot key button placed on the side.

When slide up, F400 is ready to make calls with a metallic keypad that is softly brushed with hairline pattern. When slide down, F400 turns into a music player, revealing hidden dual stereo speakers that pump up quality sound.

By using a pre-installed application called Shazam, users can find out the name and artist of an unknown tune by simply pointing their phone at the music. The service is also available when a user is listening to a song on the radio integrated within the handset. F400 also comes with a 3-megapixel camera with AF, FM Radio, microSD card slot and Bluetooth v 2.0

F400 will first be available in France in May, in two colors, black and white, with glossy finishing that resembles black and white piano keys. It will continue to be available in other European countries as well as many other countries in Asia, Southeast Asia, and Middle East.

Specifications:

• Standard: HSDPA Tri-band (900, 1800, 1900 MHz) 3.6Mbps
• Display: 2.2″ 262K TFT
• Camera: 3-megapixel camera with AF and LED Flash
• Audio by Bang & Olufsen ICEpower
• Smart Bass; Smart Limiter
• DNSe 2.0
• Dual stereo speakers; an external speaker
• Dual slider
• Music Recognition
• 3.5 mm earphone jack
• Music hot key; silver wheel navigator
• FM Radio (RDS)
• Bluetooth v 2.0
• WMPRM/ MTP
• Memory: 1GB microSD included (microSD support up to 8GB)
• USB 2.0 HS mass storage
• Size: 103.2 X 48.2 X 16.9 mm

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The Samsung Glyde is now on sale for $299.99 online after a new 2 year agreement before a $50 instant online discount bringing the total to $249.99, while the Motorola Q9c is on sale for $299.99 after a new 2 year agreement before two additional discounts, one instant $100 discount and an additional $50 mail-in rebate bringing the total to $149.99.

The Samsung Glyde features a widescreen WQVGA touchscreen with haptic feedback, modified Croix user interface from the European F700, a sliding QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth with stereo audio support, microSDHC expansion slot, GPS support, speakerphone, media player, and voice control.

The Motorola Q9c is identical to the Q9m and removes the Flash Lite based multimedia frontend that provides access to VCAST services while adding Windows Mobile 6 Standard and being one of the first Windows Mobile smart devices to support Version 4 of VZ Navigator.

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Bell Canada launches LG Vantage and Samsung Ace.The Samsung Ace and LG Vantage are set to spill onto shelves in the very near term. Samsung Ace is a dual-mode phone featuring both EV-DO connectivity and dual-band GSM,no 3G in sight, run with Windows Mobile 6 Standard and have a 1.3 megapixel camera.

The Ace is set to launch May 12, though no word on pricing just yet. Also new on the scene is the LG Vantage, a really slick looking Slide-esque slider but with a touchscreen, 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and a microSD slot that’ll allow up to 4GB of memory. The Vantage is set for launch on the 16th May and tentative pricing is set at $225 on a three year, $325 on two years, and $425 off contract. Well done Bell, nice to see a little more international roaming sans having to buy into a BlackBerry.

Relates: Three new Samsung smartphones are found

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Coming in a slim bar design, very similar with most Samsung’s Smartphone models, the new Samsung i200 is expected in European stores in June, with several unique characteristics, compared with other phones coming from the same company.

Among the improvements we find the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, Office Mobile suite with Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Outlook, an intuitive user interface with direct access to the most important section of the menus, HTML email format, editing features such as cut, copy and paste, and pop-up email alerts.

This 11.8 mm thick compact Smartphone sports a 2.3-inch QVGA TFT glossy display of 262K colors, and provides up to 3.6Mbps transfer speeds via HSDPA connectivity. Another new feature is the light sensor which reduces power consumption, adjusting the display brightness and the luminosity of the keypad.
There is also a built-in 2MP camera, a music player, tri-band support, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, 25MB internal memory, microSD card slot, mobile printing support, and a 1100mAh battery providing up to 4 hours of talk time and 360 hours of standby.

In June we expect Samsung to publish other news about Samsung i200 such as the suggested price and we’ll inform you via one of our articles.

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Verizon Wireless is going to announce Samsung Glyde SCH-U940 today,including a QWERTY keyboard, touch screen, EV-DO, GPS, a 2 megapixel camera with LED flash, MicroSD expansion, and a full browser;it does not however support VCAST TV.

There’s a 2 megapixel camera with digital zoom, GPS, stereo Bluetooth, large 240×440 pixels screen, microSD memory card slot. Supported services include V CAST Music and Video, as well as VZ Navigator. Finally for the pricing, the Glyde costs $249 after a $50 rebate and with a two-year contract.

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Samsung announced the launch of Samsung i200, slim and compact smartphone.Supporting the Windows Mobile 6.1, Samsung i200 provides functional and practical features in business. Users can operate MS Office programs such as Excel, Word, Powerpoint, and Outlook promptly.The slim bar-type form factor with mere 11.8 mm thinness offers compact and stylish design, which is hardly witnessed in most of smartphones. A large enough 2.3” QVGA TFT screen with glossy coating makes users to fully enjoy multimedia contents and complicated business information.

Furthermore, i200 gears up business efficiency through HSDPA 3.6 Mbps data communications. In addition to that, it’s unique ‘light sensor’ can help users minimize the power consumption to adjust lightness of LCD and keypad automatically. Multimedia features such as a 2-megapixel camera and music player enhance users’ entertainment experience.Samsung i200 will be launched in the European market in June and will enter other market within a month.

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Well gadget aficionados were on the lookout for this from a pretty long time, so the news of the Samsung Glyde U940 being hooked up with Verizon was more than pleasing. It is the Verizon’s InfoManager system which would come embed in this side slider from Samsung. Verizon users could get this one booked as early as May 9 on a two-year $299 contract. This pricing is a mere speculation as of now but it won’t hopefully expand beyond that limit.

Source: PhoneArena

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SEOUL, KOREA - April 30, 2008 - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a leading mobile phone and No. 1 TV maker, announced today P960, the world's first slider type Digital Video Broadcast - Handheld (DVB-H) mobile TV phone P960. As a pioneer of slider mobile phones and TV, it was only a matter of course for Samsung to develop a device that contains both of its strongest strengths in one.

P960 is also the world's first DVB-H mobile TV phone that supports both of European mobile TV standards, Digital Video Broadcast - Convergence of Broadcast and Mobile Service (DVB-CBMS) and Open Mobile Alliance Mobile Broadcast Service Enabler Suite (OMA-BCAST).

DVB-CBMS is DVB Forum initiated DVB-H standard based on DVB-T standard, currently available in Italy through H3G, TI and Voda. It will soon become available in France, Belgium, Poland and Russia. OMA-BCAST is OMA initiated DVB-H standard known as the next generation DVB-H solution. It will first become available in Netherland and will continue to be adopted in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.

P960 offers an optimized television-on-the-go experience with a large 2.6" QVGA TFT screen with vivid 262K color image-enhancing DNIe. TV watching experience is enriched by numerous innovative DVB-H features such as Electronic Service Guide (ESG) that provides an on-screen TV guide and Picture in Picture (PIP) that allows users to view two channels at once, and Time-Shifting feature that shifts TV program schedule when a show is interrupted by incoming calls.

P960 also proudly features Bang & Olufsen ICEPower® technology for a professional quality audio experience. The battery life of 1200mAh ensures up to 5 hours of TV watching time.

In addition to DVB-H technologies, P960 also offers satisfying entertainment features to meet even end-users needs. A 3 megapixel camera with power LED, a music player with Music Library feature and codec support, a FM radio with RDS for around the clock news and music, are all included in P960 to provide the users convenience and enhancement in both audio and visual entertainment life.

As Samsung mobile's well-known reputation, P960 does not compromise an outstanding design with technologies. The device features all the up-to-date technologies within a slim 16.7mm thin metal body, softly brushed with hairline pattern.

Geesung Choi, President of Samsung's Telecom Business said P960 is a milestone for mobile TV technology, as the launch of the device will signify the beginning of DVB-H phone era in Europe. "Samsung has already achieved a stable No. 1 leader position in Korea as the mobile TV phone provider. There is no doubt Samsung will continue the success in Europe with P960."

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Samsung mobile recently announced the launch of Samsung Anycall J708 in Hong Kong. It’s the premium, shiny-black slider phone.Users can enjoy multi-format music files such as MP3, AAC, AAC+ and MIDI as well as the FM radio and also snap photos by the embedded 1.3 mega-pixel camera and even enjoying H.263 or MPEG4 videos.

It’s dimensions is only 99.5 x 47 x 14.8 mm and offering features include Bluetooth V2.0, USB2.0 port, built-in 16MB memory, microSD extended memory (up to 2GB), large-color number dialing and a 1000 multi phone book.

The previous version of this series is Anycall Haptic which was launched last month in Korea.
Specifications

* Band: Tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900MHz)
* Dimension: 99.5(L) x 47(W) x 14.8(D) mm
* Weight: 92g
* Display: 2” 65K TFT Color Display (128 x 160 pixel)
* Memory: Built-in: 16MB + External: microSD (up to 2GB)
* Color+: Metallic Glossy Black, Bronzed Gold
* Battery Time
* Talk time: up to 3 hrs
* Standby time: up to 250 hrs
* Camera: 1.3 Mega-pixel Camera
* Music: Music Player, FM Radio, Offline Mode
* Codec
* Video Play Format: H.263 / MPEG4
* Music Play Format: MP3 / AAC / AAC+ / MIDI
* Other Functions
* Large Color Number Dialing
* 1000 Multi Phone Book
* Mobile Printing (PictBridge, BPP)
* Connectivity
* Data Transfer: EDGE / GPRS Class 10
* Bluetooth: V2.0, A2DP
* Data Connectivity: USB 2.0

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Samsung makes us another surprise by announcing a new Dual SIM cell phone named Samsung D780 Duos, an elegant model with almost the same features as the previous Dual SIM released on the market by the same company, the D880 Duos, but with a less-impressive camera.

If Samsung D880 Duos has a 3.15MP camera, the new D780 Duos comes with just 2MP but I say it’s enough to take some nice pictures while on the go. Cell Phones are not as advanced as digital cameras anyway.
With a 2MP camera, an enhanced design, smaller display size f 2.1 inches compared with the 2.3 inches of the previous model, no EDGE support, a stereo FM radio and mobile printing instead of TV-Out, the D780 Duos has the most important elements of a today cell phone and will be available next month at half price compared with the D880 Duos, meaning a suggested retail price estimated at around $300.

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If you are attracted by cool cell phones equipped with the latest technologies you can’t miss this new model from Samsung.

Similar with LG, Samsung manages to stay in the top of the most innovative cell phone design and besides that, all major manufacturers are adopting the full-touchscreen display technology, so Samsung came out with a cool cell phone available at Sprint at the moment, featuring haptic technology, high-speed downloads, and GPS features such as visual turn-by-turn driving directions.

Samsung Instinct cell phone model will be available in stores at the beginning of this summer with EV-DO Rev A support for up to 3.1Mbps download speed and 1.8Mbps upload speed, Voice to Action button for instant access to phone, text, picture messaging, news, movies, sports and other functions including all cool services provided by Sprint.
In Samsung Instinct’s specifications list we find multi-tasking capability to allow you listen to the music while reading the latest technology news on famous blogs like Techpin, capture pictures with the 2MP camera/camcorder, store up to 8GB of media via a microSD card, and talk on the phone for up to 5.75 hours until the cell phone will need its next recharging.

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A follow-up device to the recent i620, the Samsung i640 (also sold on the Vodafone network as the i640V) is an HSDPA capable 3.5G slider phone with an unusual 320 x 240 pixel display.

So, what has changed since the i620? Well the truth is, not much. In almost all regards, the i620 and i640 are completely identical. The one significant difference between the two devices is that the i640 boosts the speed of HSDPA downloads to 3.6 Mbps from the rather slow 1.8 Mbps on the previous model.
A quick tour around the specifications on the SGH-i640 show that this is a capable enough device, but it is very much just a rehash of last year's model and the competition has moved on. The 2.4" wide aspect QVGA display is pretty good, but it is much smaller than the panel on the Nokia N95 8GB. Surprisingly the i640 lacks WiFi, and unlike much of the competition, the i640 also suffers from a pretty basic camera, lacks GPS and it doesn't come with a touchscreen.

Samsung i640 On the other hand, there is a practical QWERTY keyboard and the Samsung i640 runs Windows Mobile 6. So, it seems obvious that Samsung are pitching the SGH-i640 against BlackBerry handhelds and other messaging devices, rather than aiming this at the consumer market.

Internal memory is stated to be 141MB and this is expandable with microSD cards. As with many Samsung devices, the i640 is tri-band GSM only with 2100 MHz WCDMA for 3G and 3.5G support. Physically, the i640 measures 95 x 61 x 16mm and weighs 126 grams.

The SGHi-i640's battery life has been quoted as a maximum of 6 hours with up to 15 days standby, although it's not clear if that is on 3G or GSM. The 1200 mAH battery should be sufficiently beefy to keep the i640 running for quite a while.
Vodafone have the i640 available right now for contract customers in several different countries. In the UK it is free on a £30/month one year contract.

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