G810 by Samsung: HSDPA/WiFi/GPS rival to Nokia N96

Samsung have featured in excess of a dozen new and tweaked handsets at the Mobile World Congress - including the U900 Soul, KF700, KF600 and KF510 sliders and the i900 smartphone - which is pretty much their line-up for the next six months, and frankly I’m losing the will to live trawling through them. Still, there’s the occasional diamond among the dross, and one such gem is the G810; thankfully it’s looking a whole lot more attractive than the claylike mockup we last saw.

Samsung have blessed the G810 with 3.6Mbps HSDPA, WiFi, GPS, a 5-megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom, face detection and onboard image editor, and a 2.6-inch screen. Running the Symbian S60 3rd edition Feature Pack 1, it will be available in Europe come March 2008, and be a direct competitor to Nokia’s freshly announced N96.

The gang over at the ever-reliable Mobile-Review have put together a preview of the SGH-G810 with more screenshots and tidbits than you could shake a cellular stick at; this looks to be a very interesting phone indeed!

[via PhoneMag]

LG SH150 is a 15.6 mm thin 7.2 Mbps HSDPA slider

Too bad it looks like every other slider on the market. This roughly $550 device weighs 110 grams has a 2 megapixel camera, 320 x 240 resoultion screen with 262k colors, DMB support for you day time soap opera addicts and a second camera for video calling. Only in Korea, the magic land of mobile phones.

[Via: Engadget Mobile]

USA Gets HSDPA Love from Samsung

Oh, Samsung. We're already fully aware of your ongoing quest to create remarkably thin phones, but you've got some nifty features up those sleeves too, don't you? Targeting the American 3G phone market, Samsung has just announced the launch of the A717 clamshell and the A727 candybar, both of which are about as slim as can be.

The A717, for example, measures just 12.9mm thick, providing a profile that will make any RAZR feel jealous. The A727 candybar is even more anorexic at just 8.9mm of thickness. Both phones feature video sharing functions, enhanced video transmission, speaker phone, Bluetooth, and music downloads.

And no, the pretty girl does not come with the phone. Oh you...