SGH-i450
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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 prepping Symbian-powered i450?
Samsung seems to be on quite an S60 kick lately (gotta make use of that bought-and-paid-for license somehow!), not to say we'd know it in the States. Just Another Mobile Phone Blog indicates that the SGH-i450 is yet another handset in the Symbian family tree, a somewhat attractive slider (from what we can make of this picture, anyway) featuring 3.6Mbps HSDPA, QVGA display, 2 megapixel cam, 1GB of onboard storage plus microSD, A2DP, and S60 3rd Edition. Owing to the triband GSM radio, we won't see this one either, but who knows -- maybe if we keep grousing about it we'll eventually get one we can use.
