Built on Samsung’s OMNIA B7610, Windows Mobile 6.5 is now putting on Armani. There are three differences — the signature golden Armani finish, 8GB of memory built in, and a pivoting screen. The whole thing runs on OpenGL ES 2.0, which is a good catch. Essentially if you have $1,000 to plop into a new phone running on an underdog OS by today’s standards then fine, you might do well with getting this one. Otherwise, you can still settle for HTC or an ACER / Glofiish WinMo phone.

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A couple of weeks ago, Nokia sent me to cover Nokia Connection ‘09 in Singapore. Had I found the time, I would have trotted over to CommunicAsia to check out what the other phone manufacturers were pulling out of their hats. Well, the only free time I had was spent shopping and the billboards around Orchard Road “magically transformed” to show off the new Samsung Jet.

The Samsung Pixon12 promises to be a fantastic camera phone for two reasons — 28mm wide angle lens and Xenon flash. When Samsung released the Pixon last year, I was impressed by its lightweight estate and decent camera. Samsung took it a step higher not really because of the megapixel count or the autotracking focus — but the damn good flash that goes side by side wide shooting angles allowing you to capture more. I guess the in thing today are wide lenses for camera phones and Samsung is no stranger to this as they’ve been rolling out 28mm lenses …read more

What’s with the watch phones? First, LG introduced their version of the watch phone that used voice activated commands and Bluetooth to communicate with others via a headset.

Today the Samsung S9110 is really more of a statement that we’ll be seeing more of these watches that double as phones in the future. Seems like a pretty standard package to communicate — voice commands are in, but I’m not quite sure if this has a Bluetooth headset package. Well, for USD 650 if you have money to burn you can grab this if you’re in the bad habit of leaving your …read more

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The Samsung OMNIA Pro is a side slider QWERTY device that runs on Windows Mobile 6.1. It is basically an enterprise-targeted device that goes head to head with the HTC Touch Pro 2 because of its really big AMOLED screen.
truth be told, I’m not too keen anymore with enterprise phones using Windows Mobile. If not for the corporate lock outs (I guess buying in bulk through cheap biddings really pay off), I’d prefer having my entire team running on Blackberries because at the very least, sending SMS would be a breeze.
That, or we wait till Windows Mobile 7.0.
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This may be considered as one of Samsung’s entrry level phones with basic features but the fact is, if you’re an outdoor lover, the B2100 is water resistant up to one meter for 30 minutes, dust proof, shock proof and can claim to be elegant even when placed in front of the meeting desk. The B2100 comes with a 1.3MP camera, Mp3 player wth loud speakers and 6MB of internal memory + memory expansion.
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While I was at Singapore for Nokia Connection, another bunch of friends from the press attended Samsung’s Communicasia ‘09 “presentation.” For them, this was the launch of the Samsung Jet, a touch screen phone similar to the OMNIA HD, except that it still uses Windows Mobile 6.1.
Their take away for the jet is that you don’t need to pinch to zoom in (obviously comparing to the iPhone). The “one finger zoom” feature is the highlight of the device, where pushing and holding to a part of the screen will allow you to zoom in and out when you move …read more

Happy weekend! Samsung sent over their new OMNIA HD for testing purposes. If I were to cut this review into one sentence, I’d be obliged to say that the OMNIA HD is essentially a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic that’s running on a nice big 3.7 inch AMOLED screen. Put together S60’s touch screen UI and Samsung’s design elements and you got yourself an OMNIA HD.
Here’s my treat for the full review of the OMNIA HD.
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Tadah, Samsung introduces two new touch screen devices — the Preston and Star. Both are almost similar except that the Preston boasts a faster HSDPA connectivity for data. What sucks? Well in as much as both look like really great touch screen devices, WiFi is still lacking!

Both devices come with FM Radio support, 3.2MP camera, and Bluetooth. The Preston comes with a 2.8 inch screen while the Star comes with a slightly bigger 3 inch screen.

Both phones also utilize the Widget UI that has become popular among Samsung phones, allowing you to drag and drop widgets onto the main …read more

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A rather eccentric review in the sense that he’s got a cowboy thing going. The Samsung Propel Pro is a non-touch screen Windows Mobile phone. The Propel has a good thing going for it with a really easy to use keypad (it’s fat!). The battery life is also good enough with 2 days of intensive use.

The Propel Pro also comes with WiFi and Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard. It doesn’t have a D-Pad, but a joystick to move up, down, left and right. All in all the Propel Pro is a pretty good WinMo phone because of the QWERTY …read more