Definitely a winner in design, Samsung has brought the “Soul” back into mobile phones. The Samsung U900, better known as the Soul is really an aesthetic play with the phone’s real estate. The directional keypad is a show off of Samsung’s DACP or Magic Touch Dynamic Active Control Panel. This basically turns the directional buttons into context sensitive fields for various functions. In terms of usability, the DACP has gone a long way since the time LG’s Chocolate phone launched with a rather blah keypad.

The Soul is packed! It comes with a 5MP camera with face recognition, Bang and Olufsen Ice Power speaker technology, and HSDPA. My only complaint is that the U900 doesn’t come with WiFi. A phone so packed with features should have had built in wireless Internet at the very least.

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Samsung sent out a press release last month talking about its new “Soul” line. The “Soul” basically captures the new user interface and philosophy behind contextual buttons for specific functions in the “Ultra” line of Samsung phones. So if the MP3 player application is active, only the music player buttons will be highlighted. Same goes for camera and phone and other multimedia functions. I guess it is something similar to the Motorola ROKR E8 design philosophy.

“We believe that is the answer for today’s style-conscious consumers, excited by outstanding quality design and performance,” said Geesung Choi, President of Samsung’s Telecommunication Business. “Soul is set to continue the success of past Ultra Edition handsets, such as D900 and U600, and will further enhance Samsung’s leadership in the premium phone category.” [PRESS RELEASE]

Samsung is reinventing their user experience, and a lot has to do with their rollout of S60 on some of their higher end phone models. Honestly, I feel that the new rollout is mainly an answer to Nokia’s recent redefining of all their phones’ user interface to that thing we already see in Ovi.

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