Samsung Announces the S5600 Touch Screen Phone

Over at Korea Samsung has announced two new mobile handsets with full-touch screen features. One of these new Samsung mobile phones is the S5600 which combines stylish designs and intuitive user interface.

The Samsung S600 does not only feature a slim, compact and sophisticated design but more importantly is loaded with enhanced multimedia features. Most notable feature of the Samsung S5600 is the Touch Wiz user interface which lets users customize and personalize their phone. It features mobile widgets which can be fully dragged and dropped on its menu screen for easier and faster access to the phone's various menus.

As an added feature to its touch screen capability, the Samsung S5600 also included a "Gesture Lock" feature that enables users to unlock the phone and access menu directly by assigning letters to specific functions of the phone. To activate this menu options, users just need to draw the letters on the phone's touch screen.

Other features of the Samsung s5600 include a 2.8-inch QVGA full-touch screed, a 3 megapixel camera with smile shot feature, multi-codec support including H.263, MPEG4 and WMV, and 80MB internal memory plus microSD support up to 8 GB.

In addition, the Samsung S5600 also features music recognition through Shazam's "Find Music" service. This allows users to find songs they want to listen to by sending a tune or recording it and sending the tune to the Shazam server. Shazam will track down the specifics of the songs and would even send a link to where users can buy the official copy of those songs.

The Samsung S5600 will be available in Europe sometime in May