Samsung's freakishly large Haptic 2 touchscreen phones

Forget everything you know about perspective, Samsung's Haptic 2 is clearly one huge-ass handset. Amazing that the jumbo-handed product waif on the left can even hoist the beast without so much as a grimace. Otherwise, Samsung's newest fullscreen device looks every bit the hot Korean cousin to the i900 Omnia. The Haptic 2 followup to the original Haptic features DMB television, 4GB (SCH-W550 or SPH-W5500, about $600) or 16GB (SCH-W555, about $690) of storage, integrated mobile banking, and improved (more sensitive) 3.2-inch touchscreen and an updated TouchWiz UI now sporting 50 widget applications (up from 15) and user defined vibration tones -- whoa, better beef up security for the Korean launch Sammy.

[Via Telecoms Korea]

[Ryan @ Sep 26th 2008 7:28AM]

That was awesome.

[numbsock @ Sep 26th 2008 6:43AM]

Is the photo about the phone? Really?

Damn why is drool all over the floor

[Rubicon @ Sep 26th 2008 7:08AM]

Damn are they hot

[ChuChu @ Sep 26th 2008 8:53AM]

It's about self expression, the bond between man and machine, our eternal quest for knowledge, our... hahahah no seriously though, that's what I call baby making hips. Mmmm yeah!

[jakem @ Sep 26th 2008 9:26AM]

I'll take the one on the right please.

[Knives_Out @ Sep 26th 2008 10:33AM]

yummy.

[lamina @ Nov 8th 2008 2:28AM]

If you think these girls are hot, you should come to Seoul. :)

[Ricardo @ Sep 26th 2008 6:49AM]

I would love to touch that!

[Jakob @ Sep 26th 2008 7:05AM]

Would love to touch both of them, two different colors ;)

[Zombie Ned Flanders @ Sep 26th 2008 6:56AM]

OMG A PICTURE OF A GIRL.
Homer Simpson: "Do you come with the car?!"
Nerds, please go to a porn site and get that crap out of your system (no pun intended..) before making geeky comments here. It's embarrassing.

[danbo @ Sep 26th 2008 7:06AM]

Quite agree. Unfortunately, it's not just "a pretty girl", it's "a pretty girl holding a shiny new gadget"; hits all the geek pleasure centres at once.

[numbsock @ Sep 26th 2008 7:23AM]

@ danbo lol well said mate

[Ghen @ Sep 26th 2008 5:23PM]

Anyone who says there isn't enough sexual advertisement on my gadget site is obviously in denial.

[eggothewaffle @ Sep 26th 2008 7:00AM]

They're so happy!

...So you're implicitly saying through your marketing that if I purchase this device, I can be happy too?

In that case...Hook me up to the BT (Braintooth) nodes, my new Korean overlords.

[Orinjz @ Sep 26th 2008 7:48AM]

The one on the right seems extra happy.

Seriously though, I'm a little disturbed to see that Asian-girl tech product modelling has moved on from the good, honest, clean fun that only two girls with a new mobile can have. How have we ended up with a slightly dodgy "do you want to see how much I smile when I move my hand higher" type pose?

[eggothewaffle @ Sep 26th 2008 8:14AM]

Last time I asked "do you want to see how much you smile when I move my hand higher" to an attractive Korean woman, let's just say I crossed more than just the 38th parallel.

[N3XuS @ Sep 26th 2008 11:26AM]

@ orinjz

lol she would be, look where her hand is....

[Homeboy @ Sep 26th 2008 7:07AM]

That's a nice set of oranges.

[Derek @ Sep 26th 2008 7:07AM]

terrestrial magnetism sensor lies!

[TareX @ Sep 26th 2008 7:11AM]

Looks like Samsung's Android will be all-touchscreen only as well.

See, it's not impossible to comment on this entry in a way that doesn't involve legs or oranges.... oh wait.

[GoVegan @ Sep 26th 2008 7:11AM]

You just gotta love the Korean companies product launches from LG and Samsung compared to American tech companies who use fat-ass Big-Mac munching chicks.

[Chris @ Sep 26th 2008 7:37AM]

Fat-ass chicks? Yeah, I forgot, America really doesn't care about beauty, it's only Asia that does. I mean, it's not like 1/8 of our adolescent girls have an eating disorder or anything.

[eiki @ Sep 26th 2008 8:18AM]

never seen one of those ads with a fat-ass chick in, we don't get them in the UK ;)

[The Guess Who @ Sep 26th 2008 9:35AM]

Eating disorder to go along with 1 in 3 having teen pregnancy and 1 in 4 (under 25yrs) with a sexually transmitted disease. (2006 figures)
Thank celebrity culture, consumerism and lack of sex ed in schools.

[webon @ Sep 26th 2008 12:12PM]

I think sr. Mix-A-Lot said it first

I like big butts and I can not lie
You other brothers can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung, wanna pull out your tough
'Cause you notice that butt was stuffed
Deep in the jeans she's wearing
I'm hooked and I can't stop staring
Oh baby, I wanna get with you
And take your picture
My homeboys tried to warn me
But that butt you got makes me so horny
Ooh, Rump-o'-smooth-skin
You say you wanna get in my Benz?
Well, use me, use me
'Cause you ain't that average groupie
I've seen them dancin'
To hell with romancin'
She's sweat, wet,
Got it goin' like a turbo 'Vette
I'm tired of magazines
Sayin' flat butts are the thing
Take the average black man and ask him that
She gotta pack much back
So, fellas! (Yeah!) Fellas! (Yeah!)
Has your girlfriend got the butt? (Hell yeah!)
Tell 'em to shake it! (Shake it!) Shake it! (Shake it!)
Shake that healthy butt!
Baby got back!


sorry for the long post

[numbsock @ Sep 26th 2008 7:19AM]

Didn't know i liked phones so much :) yumm

[Jash Sayani @ Sep 26th 2008 7:26AM]

Not that great. There are better alternatives out there. !

[Jason @ Sep 26th 2008 7:30AM]

Mmmmm, multi-touch

[Sam @ Sep 26th 2008 11:04AM]

This sucks, WTF? Samsung are desperate and (nokia, HTC too), they have done 4 touch phones models in 2 mounth...

im bigging to hate touch phones.

the buttom line is that a phone is phone

......

[Frankie @ Sep 26th 2008 4:34PM]

As much as I want to respect your opinion ("the bottom line is that a phone is a phone") the geek in me won't let me. So, this is my offical low rank notice to you.

[Adrian Williams @ Sep 26th 2008 7:54AM]

From the comments above
I guess you get two free cute Asian women with the phone?
/I'll take ten

[Plothole @ Sep 26th 2008 8:21PM]

Cute? Ugh, they look downright creepy to me. I guess that's because the eyes seem way too dark and lifeless in this shot. (some digital dodging in PS would have helped)

[Troels C @ Sep 26th 2008 8:04AM]

Brilliant picture! Talk, Play & Love is exactly what I think of when I see it.

[vaan @ Sep 26th 2008 8:07AM]

the phones are not large, those korean girls are just smaller than you would expect

[ChubChub @ Sep 26th 2008 8:08AM]

I like the way you think.

[Muhammad-Oli @ Sep 26th 2008 8:21AM]

From the article: "Amazing that the JUMBO-HANDED product waif on the left can even hoist the beast without so much as a grimace"

You my now realise that engadget was simply saying the phones are huge because of the way the image is taken where it makes the phone look massive (as well as the girl's hand).

[daniel =] @ Sep 26th 2008 8:22AM]

look at the phone on the left. Its as big as her head. wow.

[robjennings @ Sep 26th 2008 12:25PM]

@ Muhammad-Oli:

I think he's just being funny too. Besides, sometimes it's hard to realize what some Engadget bloggers are saying. The official Engadget snarkiness and the protracted attempts to set up their own jokes can impede comprehension at times.

[Will H. @ Sep 26th 2008 8:38PM]

Still, that phone is the biggest thing she's ever put her hands around, unless she's been to my place! woot!

[ChubChub @ Sep 26th 2008 8:07AM]

Freakishly large phone or tiny asian ladies?

[Paul in Maryland @ Sep 26th 2008 8:28AM]

The iPhone is 3.5 inches diagonal, while HTC's Touch HD will have a 3.8-inch haptic LCD. Compared to the Samsung, each has a larger display but narrower bezel.

[mimi @ Sep 26th 2008 10:27AM]

that's not that big. those girl's hands are really small. i know because i'm an asian girl and everything i hold looks really big. go ahead. make your jokes. it's wide opeeeeeen.

[numbsock @ Sep 26th 2008 10:37AM]

Gotta me an asian chick then. Could use some ego boost ;)

[icepop4who @ Sep 26th 2008 10:46AM]

oh wow. forget those pills, all you need is an asian girl.

[Frankie @ Sep 26th 2008 11:12AM]

She said "it's wide open"..... Get back in here thoughts; what have I told you about running wild!

[Bob @ Sep 26th 2008 8:51AM]

I measured my hand and it's about 3.5" wide. I'm not that small of a guy, about 233 pounds. Since this phone looks to be less than the width of HER hand (and I'm probably twice her size), it would be MUCH smaller than my hand. Everyone seems to be comparing things to the iPhone these days, so I would venture to say this phone is pretty close to the same width as the iPhone (2.5"). Could be the same size overall. Maybe you should have learned how to read Korean and got the specs before you called this thing "freakishly large."

[Mark @ Sep 26th 2008 9:05AM]

I think it's just the way the picture's taken that make the phones look really big. It's actually slightly smaller than the iPhone.

And yeah.. those girls are HOT

[Spatial Vortex @ Sep 26th 2008 9:10AM]

It's just the way the picture's taken that makes the phones look so big. It's actually about the same height as the iPhone and about 1cm narrower.

[Ian @ Sep 26th 2008 9:17AM]

The one on the right is OK. The one on the left is something I'd like to pound over and over, until it* breaks.



*the phone

[konshuss @ Sep 26th 2008 9:48AM]

i'm in love.