Canadian wireless provider Solo Mobile on Thursday announced it is introducing four new voice plans and two new handsets to its line-up. The Bell sub-brand enhanced its Unbeatable and Solo in the City plans, giving users what it says is better value. It now waives the controversial System Access Fees and emergency 911 charges to new subscribers who sign up for a two-year contract. This represents a savings of about $8 CAD (about $6.75) per month. Four new plans include the $15 CAD ($12.66) Unbeatable plan that includes 50 minutes and 50 text messages per month, per-second billing, call waiting and three-way calling. For another $5, users can share minutes and get unlimited local and long-distance national calling as well as unlimited texting with up to four family members and friends.
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Korean manufacturer Samsung Techwin is planning on separating its camera business into a separate division but keep it under the same ownership, says a Friday report. The new company, due to be called Samsung Digital Imaging, will have a separate listing starting on February 1st of next year. The move is believed to differentiate the existing company from the Samsung Group’s machinery and heavy industry division and allow the newly formed company’s management to focus on the quickly growing consumer camera market.

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AT&T and Samsung have announced the availability of the new Samsung Epix smartphone.

This innovative smartphone packs in an advanced touch screen and new optical mouse technology, powered by AT&T’s 3G network. The Epix is available exclusively to AT&T customers in the US.

It’s the first ever phone to incorporate the optical mouse technology, the optical mouse is located in the center of the device between the right and left soft keys for quick and easy navigation just by sweep of a finger. It runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system. The optical mouse also lets you switch to the four-way key traditional navigation.

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The Samsung Omnia is presented in an extremely sleek black gloss finish, and actually only measures in at 12.5mm thick.  The Samsung Omnia’s touch screen though is so rich, intense, and reactive, whilst the 3.2inch screen is hugely refreshing and actually enjoyable to use.

The camera, however, is the main highlight here. Its resolution is the main headline, a nice 5MP which is the highest resolution we’ve seen in a Windows Mobile device yet. It is a strong competitor and is better than the Apple iPhone 3G and HTC Touch Diamond in some respects but also loses in some.

Samsung Omnia i900 Specifications,

Dimensions - 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm
Weight - 127 gms
Display - 240 x 400 px, 3.2“ TFT, 65K Colors
Camera - 5 MP Cam with AF and Flash, VGA cam for video calls
Memory - 8 GB / 16 GB Internal memory, 128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM
Connectivity - GPRS Class 12, EDGE Class 12, 3G HSDPA 7.2 MBPS, WLAN 802.11 b/g, USB v2.0
Blue tooth - Blue tooth 2.0 with A2DP
GPS - GPS Receiver with A-GPS
OS - Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional.

Other Features: FM Radio with RDS, Geotagging, Built in Accelerometer for automatic screen rotation, 3.5 mm audio jack, TouchWiz UI, Optical Joystick.

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It deserves to be here all the same- it combines 720p HD resolution, a 10x optical zoom along with a touch screen LCD all for less than the price of the Canon.

Pretty much everything you need to get started is included in the box including a remote, though Samsung’s generosity runs out at the HDMI cable!

There are no tapes, DBDs or hard disks, just a tiny SD card. The stills resolution is pretty low at 3MP too, and even that’s interpolated. On the bright side, it’s got proper camcorder handling, made especially simple by the touch screen. So, if you have big pockets, traditional camcorder tastes and a penchant for a crisp video, the HMX10 is well worth checking out.

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This phone although good looking and well built from front but has a cheap plastic rear cover that spoils first impression. For the rest its accessories are well built. Its got a decent screen, and based around Windows Mobile 6 Professional. The QWERTY keypad on the Samsung feels good to use and the keys are nicely beveled, if slightly close together, which makes typing longer emails easier.

On the multimedia front Samsung incorporates a 2 mega pixel camera- which is pretty much lame for cell phones & PDAs theses days. Our list of complaints & changes includes a slightly larger screen, better built body panels and a better software bundle. As it stands the phone is good, although a little overpriced for what it offers.

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This compact stylish & sleek mp3 by Samsung comes in many different variant colors and storage capacity of 1gb -2gb.The voice quality is amazing and comes with the in built speakers,the cover can be open and the songs can be heard without the headphones. Screen is digital and battery backup is 3 hrs [non-stop] moreover it’s good for a style statement. Best buy -175$

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Samsung makes excellent sliders, Definitely true, if the U900 is any indication. Besides being very well built , slim and featuring a brushed metal body, the U900 has a lovely screen. It’s compact too, and very much for the college goer looking for something powerful and chic. The call accept/reject button are large, you could find them with your eyes closed. The keypad seems reminiscent of Motorola phones, some sort of a membrane based keypad that nonetheless works fine. The most innovative feature is incorporated into the menu button- there is none.

Samsung 5 megapixel camera is easy to use with good menus and option, although its camera isn’t as good as N95 or the N82. The only trick which Samsung missed is the presence of GPS and WLAN. The U900 is a good phone for something cute, hardly, yet functional. It hasn’t got the powerful convergence of features like N95 and N82, but it looks radically different and is flashy too, like the Viewty. Choose it over two Nokia’s above only if you don’t need the extra features they have!

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Samsung has launched a new mobile phone in the US called the Samsung Messager (SCH-R450) that features a slide out Qwerty keyboard for people who want to “Message” on the go.

Clearly not able to bag the product name “Messenger” the new pocketable pseudo smartphone will be available in black and come with a 1.3 megapixel camera.

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Samsung’s latest mobile phone the Omnia i900 is due to launch later this month.

The Samsung Omnia i900 features a fully functional 3.2 inch touch screen interface as well as a host of cool features.

The Omnia i900 features a 5 mega pixel camera, an accelerometer similar to that of the Apple iPhone, and it will come in a choice of either 8GB or 16GB. Read the rest of this entry »