Samsung's musicphone lineup ready for Europe

by Thomas Ricker, posted Oct 10th 2007 at 4:23AM

Samsung just got busy with a trio of MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, and WMDRM supporting musicphones: the dual-sliding SGH-i450, slim SGH-F330 with HSDPA, and SGH-F210 swivel stick. Most impressive is the €360/$508 Symbian i450 with Touch Wheel music navigation pictured above. Slide 'er up and you're holding an S60 3rd Edition smartphone with 3.6Mbps HSDPA data beneath a 2.4-inch LCD. Slide 'er down to expose metallic speakers with a B&O ICEpower amplifier and Samsung music UI for controlling the tunes stored in its 35MB of internal memory or up to 4GB on microSD expansion. Sure, Bluetooth A2DP stereo audio, 3.5-mm headphone jack, and FM radio as well. The €260/$367 F330 features the physical music controls of the F300 while packing 3.6Mbp HSDPA, a 2 megapixel camera, and up to 2GB of microSD expansion in a slider measuring just 13.5-mm thin. The F210 then, is a GSM version of the U470 already nabbed by Verizon as the Juke. It offers up to 20-hours of audio playback from the included 1GB storage or microSD expansion -- we hear it makes phone calls too. Sorry US Americans, all these phones are tri-band GSM and set to launch around Europe starting this month.

Gallery: Samsung's musicphone lineup ready for Europe

Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio

Tags: europe, f210, f330, hsdpa, i450, musicphone, s60, samsung, sgh-f210, sgh-f330, SGH-i450, symbian

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V.I. @ Oct 10th 2007 5:08AM

I wish I never left T-Mobile and the GSM network....

O well, I'll be back in 10 months!

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Carbonize @ Oct 10th 2007 5:24AM

Isn't it slide it up to reveal the speaker and slide it down to reveal the keypad? And if kids playing music over their phones speakers wasn't annoying enough now Samsung goes and encourages it.

Still nice looking phones I just hope Samsung have changed the UI as the way you sent text messages was long winded and you could never pick your own message alert tone.

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silentio @ Oct 10th 2007 5:31AM

The UI shouldn't be a problem since it's using S60, well, at least the i450 is. So the interface should differ much from a Nokia Nseries phone.

But if you also hate that UI, can't be helped then.

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silentio @ Oct 10th 2007 5:31AM

I mean "shouldn't differ"

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Carbonize @ Oct 10th 2007 5:37AM

I have no problem with Symbian phones UI as my better half has a Nokia N95. I was referring more to the Samsung OS UI. I'm not a big fan of Symbian because it's not something I need but I still prefer it to Samsungs and LG's UIs. Funny how they are identical.

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Carbonize @ Oct 10th 2007 6:10AM

Oh wait they mean slide the front up to reveal the keypad and down to reveal the speaker - DOH

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Serpico @ Oct 10th 2007 5:41AM

I really, really don't like those..

I wish they made a music version of the u700 or the u600.

Now those were good looking.

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Richard @ Oct 10th 2007 5:42AM

sigh.. how hard can it be to find a phone that plays a variety of none DRM crippled formats (avi,xvid,ogg,mp3/4) with 3G GSM HSDPA and a decent 680x480 LCD, Yep! totally impossible right now. Closest I have come is a O2 flame but they did a crap job on the software then crippled it with no HSDPA support.

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