Samsung Telecommunications America and Cricket Communications, Inc., the operating subsidiary of Leap Wireless International, Inc., and a leading provider of unlimited wireless services, announced the availability of the Samsung SCH-r610 mobile phone to Cricket customers. “The Samsung SCH-r610 is a slick and powerful device that will help our customers take full advantage of Cricket’s array of unlimited wireless voice and data services,” said Sergio Garcia, director of device strategy for Cricket. “The handset’s slim form factor makes it an ideal addition to Cricket’s portfolio, especially since our customers rely on Cricket for most of their communications needs, talking more than 1,500 minutes per month on average.”

Samsung and T-Mobile, announced the availability of the Samsung Katalyst. The Katalyst adds a stylish, slider design to the growing line-up of phones that support T-Mobile HotSpot @Home service. With built-in support for T-Mobile HotSpot @Home, the Samsung Katalyst provides customers with great wireless coverage when placing calls over a home Wi-Fi network and at nearly 8,500 T-Mobile HotSpot locations nationwide. When customers leave home or a T-Mobile HotSpot, their calls are passed onto T-Mobile’s wireless network, and the same is true for passing calls from T-Mobile’s network onto Wi-Fi networks. In addition, with the purchase of a HotSpot @Home add-on plan, customers can enjoy the freedom of unlimited, nationwide calling over Wi-Fi.

Samsung is opening its second Customer Service Plaza on Thursday 6th December 2007. The plaza will cover North London, Hertfordshire and Essex and will be a place for Samsung customers - existing or potential - to drop in and seek support and advice on Samsung products, discuss servicing requirements, or simply arrange an in-home repair at a convenient time to the customer. The Customer Service Plaza will be a fully functioning diagnosis and repair centre.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced that it is mass-producing a 16M color display driver IC (DDI) for active matrix-based organic light-emitting diode (Amoled) displays used in mobile phones and other handheld devices. With outstanding image quality, Amoleds are attracting attention from device designers as the next generation display technology of choice.

Samsung, NXP Semiconductors and T3G Technologies announced the world’s first TD-SCDMA HSDPA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE multi mode mobile phone, which has also been demoed at the PT/Wireless Exposition in Beijing on October 23rd. Powered by a software-defined modem capable of achieving data transfer rates of 2.8Mbps, the Samsung SGH T578H enables about 20 times faster transfers than GPRS, allowing consumers to download several high-quality MP3 files in less than a minute. The multi mode mobile phone is based on the T3G7210 system solution featuring the industry’s first soft modem empowered by NXP’s Embedded Vector Processor (EVP) to achieve high data transfer and multi mode capability.

During a mixed dealer and press event in London, Samsung officially announced the Samsung G800 camera phone. The high resolution 5 Megapixel Samsung G800 is an enhanced version of the G600. Samsung introduce the new G800 camera phone as a striking digital camera that can also be used as a mobile phone. Samsung has high expectations from the G800 handset. Samsung had hired part of the British Museum for the event that took place in London on Monday night 29th of October.

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Surf the internet right on your mobile phone display. Enhanced features like an embedded camera and music player, combined with user-centered features, are embedded in the mobile’s frame of design brilliance. Simple and unassuming, with design details that elevate its style. The Samsung J750 cell phone offers polished simplicity with premium features for value that cant be beat.

More and more cell phones are able to offer HSDPA or UMTS thus offering options like MSN, Skype, Internet and Email; all very attractive functions for the business user. Up until recently not much attention was paid to the design of a business phone. Most of them were just grey or black models. Often they came with a belt clip because their large size did not allow these huge models to fit into trouser or shirt pockets. Samsung dares to put an end to the grey episode and is introducing the SGH-i620 cell phone. The Samsung i620 is a small, based on Windows Mobile 6, handset with a QWERTY keyboard. The Samsung i620 is available in black, white and pink. Business women are also able to lay their hands on a stylish business model..

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At a Samsung dealer event in the Netherlands I had the change to get my hands on the upcoming 5 Megapixel mobile phone; the Samsung G800. The Samsung SGH-G800 will be introduced later on this year, at least in the Netherlands, and target the multimedia consumer who is also into mobile imaging. The Samsung SGH-G800 is an ultra thin slider mobile phone and show off with a great design. The designer Samsung G800 cam phone has a digicam-like metallic design and features a 5 Megapixel digital camera. The handset is one of Samsung’s top models and has to bring Samsung into the high resolution market for mobile phones. This segment is interesting for the manufacturer, the consumer is willing to pay some extras for mobile image quality.

Samsung has officially announced the G800 camera phone. It is the worlds first 5 Megapixel cell phone and is equipped with a 3x optical zoom lens. The optical zoom lens is an inner zoom, where the lens does not extend outside the cell phone body, ensuring a slimmer design. Samsung Mobile has opened the door for many snap shot photographers among us that feel comfortable with just one mobile device instead of having a digital camera next to it. The Samsung G800 camera phone has adapted technology features such as face detection and Wide Dynamic Range from their digital camera range into a stylish compact cell phone. The G800 from Samsung will be supported by media campaigns across Europe and will go on sale in European countries in November.