BCH-I899 Android phone will soon be available in stores. This device is equipped with CDMA2000 EVDO Rev. A and also adds Wi-Fi/WAPI to make mobile internet surfing easy and cost effective.

Here's some of its specs and features. These include:

• 3.2 inch AMOLED resistive touchscreen display with 320 x 480 pixels
• Wi-Fi / WAPI
• GPS
• DivX support
• 3.5mm headset jack
• 3.2MP camera with autofocus and flash
• 512MB of internal memory
• 800 MHz processor
• MicroSD card support (up to 32GB)
• 1440 mAh battery
• 116.5 x 56.4 x 12.8 mm
• 126 grams

via: unwiredview

Do you remember when Expansys ranted about Samsung's "Louve" Windows Mobile smartphone earlier this year?

While Expansys removed all information later, Dutch The Phone House spilled the beans now, this time even with a blurry photo which seems to be taken from a presentation chart. According to The Phone House, the code-name is "Louvre" not "Louve" while the official product name will be most likely "B7610".

Featuring a slide-out full QWERTY-keyboard, it's expected that the B7610 is featuring a tilting screen, a 3.2 megapixel camera and it's said to run Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, while the customized UI was said to be similar to Samsung SGH-i900 Omnia TouchWIZ UI.

While The Phone House hasn't released any further information about Samsung's upcoming Windows Mobile smartphone yet, the B7610 photo above is most likely a Photo Shop result, does the design reminds on Samsung's F700 Qbowl. Nevertheless, with another rant from a second source, it seems to be confirmed that Samsung is releasing another slide-out keyboard smartphone soon.

via: theunwired

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

The Samsung Xplorer is a funky looking mobile handset with vivid red elements on its body. This phone passed through the IP57 certification which makes withstand water up to one meter deep for 30 minutes. It also resists temperature shocks, blowing rain and salt fog.

Aside from its ruggedized feature, the Samsung Xplorer also boasts of some nice features worthy of mention and perhaps of your money as well especially if your eyeing to get a rugged phone. Some of its features include a 1.77-inch TFT Display, 8 hours talk time and 600 hours standby time, built-in camera, video playback (MPEG4, 3GP, H.263 format), GPRS/EDGE, USB 2.0, 7GB internal memory and microSD support, SMS/EMS/MMS messaging functionality, music player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, WAV, AMR, FM radio, MP3 ringtones

The Samsung Xplorer is slated for an April release in Germany and Europe. No words yet as to whether it will be released in the U.S.

By the looks of it, Samsung S5600 will be launched as an affordable touchscreen phone, hence it might be competing with LG Cookie.

Details about the features of S5600 are scarce, but we can see that it uses Samsung's TouchWiz UI (without Windows Mobile, so it's not a smartphone).

No word yet on when we'll get to see the Samsung S5600 in stores, but the South Korean company probably intends to release it as soon as possible.

via: mobile review