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Samsung's musicphone lineup ready for Europe
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-8370%
Samsung F330 music slider gets official
Though any shot it had at basking in the spotlight was stolen by the B&O Serene II that we happened to peep at the same time, Samsung's F330 looked to be shaping up into a fine device in its own right -- and now that the phone's specs are official at IFA, we're gonna go ahead and stand by that statement. The SGH-F330 is a music-centric slider (notice the prominently placed track controls) with 1GB of onboard storage, microSD expansion, and an FM radio. Naturally, you get stereo Bluetooth to pump the melodies up to your ears, primary and front-facing cams, and 3.6Mbps HSDPA. No word on a release date or carrier, but outside of Europe, we're going to venture that the odds are slim.
