After spending some time in our rumor mill the Samsung S5550 now made it to the front page since it can already be found in the stores. Strangely, the phone hasn’t been officially announced yet but it’s not the first time Samsung release a phone to the market without proper introduction.

The market entry of Samsung S5550 is like that of Samsung B3410: we saw it at the Spanish Phone House before it was announced.

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While there aren’t any bada-powered mobile phones in the market yet, Samsung has revealed some information on the platform ahead of its actual SDK release. It seems that each phone will sport rather high specs. Multitouch VGA (800 x 480) displays will become the minimum for its interface. Other staple features include 3G, GPS and also Wi-Fi. While it will have its own interface, the OS can also accept layers, and then first bada-powered phone from Samsung should sport TouchWiz 3.0. Samsung has reconfirmed that the first bada-powered mobile phone should be available in the first half of 2010, so let’s see what Samsung will come up with, eh?

The 2 new comers seem to join Samsung Duos line, B5722 and the C6112. The touch slider phones are capable of using 2 SIM cards simultaneously.

Samsung B5722

This Dual SIM device is touchscreen bar with almost the same look and specification with Samsung Preston. It supports quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity with the secondary SIM card that dual-band. The two cards can be functioned for data transfers.

The size is 104 x 54.9 x 14.4 mm features a 2.8″ QVGA screen. As usual, it runs on TouchWiz UI. It also sports a 3Mpx camera with LED flash. The built in memory is expandable up to 8GB using a microSD card. The others are FM radio, Bluetooth, Facebook and MySpace. The battery is 1200mAh.

Samsung C6112

The traditional look, Samsung C6112 is a slider phone. It supports quad-band GSM/EDGE on the first SIM card and dual-band GSM on the second card. They can be activated simultaneously. The second SIM card comes without data connectivity.
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Samsung will launch their two new phones namely Samsung Mythic and Flight. Both the phones will be available on November 8th under AT&T. As usual, these touch screen handsets are TouchWiz-based.

So the following is their specs list:

Samsung Flight

2 Mpx Camera
A2DP Stereo Bluetooth
Dimensions: 4.17? x 2.2? x 0.5?
Weight: 4.8 oz

Samsung Mythic:

TouchWiz core (it is not TouchWiz on top of WinMo/Android. It’s just TouchWiz)
3.3? touchscreen
3.2 Mpx camera
SMS/MMS
AT&T Nav (subscription required)
4.49? x 2.06? x .5?
A2DP Stereo Bluetooth
Dimensions: 4.49? x 2.06? x .5?
Weight: 3.8 oz

Some people may think that those handsets seem to be overpriced than their rivals. Mythic and Flight has the price tag of $199 and $99 respectively.

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During the launch of their new app store Samsung offers a competition which has provided total $330,000 of prize for the winners. Each of the top winners (two developers) will get $100,000 prizes. The 4 runner ups will bring $10,000 each. The remaining are 10 $5000 prizes and 20 $2000 prizes.
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Remember my post that said India’s Samsung Omnia HD i8910 to get 1 GHz processor? Well, apparently the rumor is not true. Well it’s not totally false, either…. According to our source, India’s Samsung Omnia HD i8910 does got an addition of 420MHz speed of the handset’s DSP (sound processing chip) to the 600MHz speed of the ARM Cortex-A8 CPU. However, the addition still doesn’t add up the data processing speed of Omnia HD to 1 Ghz, since the Omnia HD still relies on the 600 MHz CPU.

Well, that is kinda disappointing, but hey, the Omnia HD is fast enough in its 600 MHz CPU… So with this news, Samsung still doesn’t have a smartphone with 1 GHz CPU. But the Samsung Jet is close enough with 800 MHz CPU

UPDATE: Samsung representative corrected the label to Cortex-A8 600MHz + DSP 430MHz

Just recently Samsung Mobile Innovator announced a mobile widget software developer kit (SDK) for TouchWiz UI. So either its smartphone or dumbphone, developers can create widgets for different samsung phones, including Samsung’s propriety operating system.

“The Samsung Mobile Innovator program is a global program focused on giving developers the tools and the support that they need to develop and market widgets for Samsung’s lineup of TouchWiz-based devices and applications for different Samsung phones.” said Omar Khan, senior vice president of strategy and product management, Samsung Telecommunications America.

Developers now has many times to access Samsung’s Virtual Device Lab; and they can check out and test their app on Samsung phones. Remotely. The Samsung SDK also includes a variety of ever-evolving SDK tools, including the TouchWiz user interface, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Java. After the widget development process is complete, Samsung Mobile Innovator offers developers the opportunity to pitch ideas directly to Samsung.

Ok, after we discussed about the questionable green side of the Samsung Reclaim, let us continue to the next thing: Samsung Reclaim First Impression (a Preview). As you might already know, the Samsung Reclaim is a budget phone, and it comes for only $50 on 2 years contract. Therefore don’t expect too much of this phone… Here I present you a Samsung Reclaim preview based on several aspects which was initally done by our folks at MobileCrunch, which are Reclaim’s hardware, software, keyboard and camera. So let’s start then….

Reclaim Hardware and Design

Well, it is a pretty decent device, regarding the price. The keyboard looks great, as do the sides and rear of the phone. The face, however, looks pretty tacky. Several less frequently used buttons are smaller than the frequently used ones. The grip is quite comfortable, and the sliding mechanism is also good. The 3.5mm headset jack is also a great addition. Talks about the keyboard, it is better than expected. Nice pressure mechanism. Too bad it’s a bit small, but it is the form factor.

Reclaim Software and Camera

We really like the idea of Sprint’s One Click UI. Your homescreen is essentially a looping carousel, filled from left to right with “Tiles” of your choosing. They’ve got the basics covered: Facebook and Myspace are there for your social needs, quick (basic) access to just about every Google service is available, and customization is quick and easy. However, there are some bugs on the sotware and some delay too.

The camera is not the best feature on this phone. It seems to have a fixed focus outside of any known dimension; whether near or far, things are blurry messes.

Conclusion:

In today’s day of incredible smartphones costing just $100-$150 bucks, we’d never, ever recommend a $50 feature phone. If we did, we’d consider recommending the Reclaim Not because of the supposed eco-friendliness – because, to be honest, we think that’s a bit of a sham. At the very most, it’s a well intended but way off the mark gesture. Samsung makes some 50+ phones a year; in the grand scheme of things, a few small changes across all of Samsung’s models would make more of a difference than one ultra-green phone.

We’ve heard about the eco-friendly budget phone from samsung, the Samsung Reclaim. Now it is time for a new rumor on the high-end version. So recently I heard this news saying that Samsung will release a high-end phone with AMOLED display on Q4 this year. According to my source, the Sprint will be the first one to carry the High-End Samsung phone.

Anyway, there is no confirmation on the codename whatsoever on this device. Some people speculates that it might be the InstinctQ. But remember, it is just a speculation….Another rumor is that Samsung will reveal an Android phone that is priced under $100… Stay tune to find out the latest news about this high-end phone