The Vodafone M1 360 is a sleek and stylish touch screen model designed by Samsung to keep you connected. The phone boasts superb features and comes at an affordable price. This is a sure recipe for success in the market.

Here are some of its key features:

Appearance – This is a sleek and stylish Samsung touch screen model. It has dimensions of 55 x 111 x 13.3 mm and weighs just 111 grams. This makes it really palm and pocket friendly. The front panel is dominated by the touchscreen. The phone is available in three colours- black, red and white.

Display – The TFT touchscreen measures 3.2 inches and supports 16 million colours. You can view images, videos, text and web pages with ease on this screen. The Vodafone M1’s display has a resolution of 800×480 pixels. Colours are deep and vivid and images are clear.

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Gsmarena have posted their review of the Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO. Here are the phone’s key features, main disadvantages and their final impression.

Key features:
Quad-band GSM support and 3G with HSDPA
3.5″ 16M-color (65K effective) AMOLED display of 800 x 480 pixel resolution
Work & Life mode switch key
Full side sliding QWERTY keyboard
800 MHz processor with dedicated graphics accelerator
5 megapixel auto-focus camera with dual-LED flash and D1 video recording at 30 fps
Windows Mobile 6.5 fully skinned with TouchWiz UI
Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, standard microUSB port
Standard 3.5mm audio jack
2GB built-in storage, 256 MB RAM, microSD (up to 32GB), 8GB card included
Wi-Fi with DLNA
GPS receiver with A-GPS
Built-in accelerometer for UI auto-rotate and turn-to-mute
TV out functionality
Nice audio output quality
Large capacity Li-Ion 1500 mAh battery

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Samsung readies more lady phones. Samsung has always been known to be an aggressive company aimed to deliver mobile handsets for any class and gender and it seems that they have something in the works to perk up its LadyPhone lineup. For now all we can gather is that it will be codenamed Samsung Marina, but apart from that, don’t expect any photos or specs. All we can do for now is speculate and critics have started doing so by expecting a high-end phone and supposedly in step with Samsung’s quality control for its family of handsets. But if it is really aimed at ladies, expect a feminine touch starting with the color (pink or lavender?) and the keypards (smaller). We just have to wait and see if there is any truth to this rumor for now!

We have some great news for the owners of Samsung S8000 Jet: there is a new firmware update for the Jet bringing lots of goodies for your phone. As it turned out it’s been a while since it first showed up but most probably many of you (we as well) have missed it.

So much has been changed thanks to the S8000XEII2 firmware! The Samsung S8000 Jet now has a a different 3D Cube background as well as some new widgets (Twitter, MySpace and Facebook). The TouchWiz UI is similar to the one we’ve seen in Samsung M8910 Pixon12: you can rearrange the main menu icons.

According to some Jet owners who have already tried out the new firmware (thanks, Andrew!), the phone now feels much zippier. The WebKit-based Dolphin web browser has also been improved and so has been the media browser. Thumbnails are now loaded much faster and scrolling speed is increased, however, viewing images is a bit slower (opening an image takes a second or two more).

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The Samsung B3310 AKA Samsung Nox is a mobile phone suitable for anyone and everyone. Since messaging has become the primary means of communication, customers prefer to buy phones which are cosy and comfortable in handling and have easy to use keyboards. With apt keyboards and keys, instant messaging, social networking, emails etc. become very simple with this handset. This is the main feature of this phone. The QWERTY kind of keypad makes writing messages faster and convenient.

Describing the navigation feature you must know that, other important features include a 5 way navigation D-pad surrounded by two navigation keys.

The Samsung B3310 comes with a TFT QVGA screen. The display supports approximately 256000 colours. This new Samsung device also has the feature of auto rotating and when the slide opens there is transforming over to landscape view.

Now, while describing the most important feature and that is its camera, you must know that the B3310 has 2.0 megapixel camera facilities. The camera also has QVGA video recording. The picture clarity is going to be superb. How can you miss out the Bluetooth 2.1, with A2DP audio support, and the media player that can play MP3 files and MP4 videos? Internal memory is 40MB, which can be increased using a MicroSD card.

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Samsung had earlier announced their Bada OS which we reported on. The new Bada OS is expected to be Samsung’s first choice and is expected to replace the Windows Mobile and Symbian OSes that Samsung mobiles currently use.

This is Samsung’s own OS and hence it makes it easier for development and incorporation into devices. Now reports say that Samsung is set to announce a phone which runs on Bada OS by the 1st Quarter of 2010. Announcement in 1st Quarter means availability by 2nd Quarter.

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LiMo Foundation announced the Samsung SCH-M510 as the first LiMo Compliant handset which will be deployed in the Korean marketplace. The Samsung SCH-M510 is the first LiMo compliant handset for the Korean market, and the 45th LiMo compliant device overall. Other than the Korea Market, Samsung has already announced its Samsung H1 (Vodafone 360 H1) and Samsung M1 for Vodafone recently.

“Today’s announcement that SK Telecom will be bringing its first LiMo compliant handset to market is a significant milestone in the ongoing global growth and adoption of LiMo technologies,” said Morgan Gillis, Executive Director of LiMo Foundation. “LiMo’s global operators are committed to providing highly compelling and customized LiMo devices to their mobile subscribers – this initial handset from Samsung and SKT demonstrates the rapid maturation and opportunity within the LiMo ecosystem.”

The Samsung SCH-M510 is a rich media device with support for various audio and video media types and features a 3.5” WVGA AMOLED screen and a 5 megapixel autofocus camera. This handset also features Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and also includes support for proximity, accelerometer and ambient light sensors.

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The first one in its physical. Samsung Behold II is comfortable in hand. It has the ideal weight but the glossy plastic material makes it feels chintzy in hand. It has the pretty cool back cover but it will be easily scratched if you are careless. And then its 5-way navigational circle is friendly and the buttons is user friendly too (easy to press).

The interface seems not to be the user friendly one. It looks like the quite older interface: neon blues, neon orange, neon yellow and the background is black. You do not need to press the Menu key in order to unlock the screen. Instead you must press the unlock/lock key longer.
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Samsung may be sponsoring the Enlightenment window manager project and Enlightenment may be a component in Samsung’s bada mobile operating system. The Enlightenment project, which has been around since 1997, announced today that it was working with a “top-tier electronics maker” which “produces millions of mobile phones, televisions, sound systems and more”.

The announcement said that this vendor was actively sponsoring the development of Enlightenment and that one of the results of this development would be a version of Enlightenment tuned for use on a small screen with touch control. Screen sizes of 240 by 320 to 800 by 480 are discussed for the target devices. Phoronix has examined the change logs for the Enlightenment project and found that Samsung Electronics has recently committed code to the project. Samsung’s LGPL3 licensed contribution, Editje, is a graphical editor for edje files, used to lay out skinnable Enlightenment applications.

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Just as we reported before, Verizon is expected to launch the Samsung Omnia II on December 2nd. Set to price at $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and your John Hancock on a 2 year contract, the handset will ship with Windows Mobile professional 6.5 which could be why Verizon made everyone suffer through the long wait. The 3.7 inch AMOLED display, TouchWiz 2.0, 5MP camera and 8GB of internal memory all helps justify the price, which matches the cost of the Motorola DROID.

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