Samsung announce music handset line-up

Samsung today announced three handsets with a music focus to be launched in the coming months. With the launch of the SGH i450, SGH F300 and SGH F210 Samsung are looking to launch a determined assault on the mobile music market sector, offering a variety of choice for the end user.

These latest handsets offer a wide choice of music options without compromise on phone functionality. With perfect duality, Samsung brings a full music player into a mobile phone, with an end result that will attract a wide range of music loving mobile phone users.

First we have the i450. The SGH i450 is a S60 handset, running the latest version, S60v3 FP1.

The i450 has a dual slide system similar to that found on the Nokia N95. Opening the keypad upwards reveals the standard alpha-numeric keypad, whilst sliding the handset downwards shows a touch wheel for navigating though the music and multimedia menus.

The i450 has its own music UI and support for multiple codecs including MP3, AAC, AAC+ , WMA and WMA with DRM. Samsung are also touting the ICEpower speaker which includes technology developed by Bang & Olufsen and it said to give better fidelity and battery life.

The i450 is a 3G handset, also supporting HSDPA. THe i450 will launch in Italy at the end of October and then in the rest of Europe. SIM free price will be around 360

The F330 is a dual faced slim slider handset, with music as the central focus. A successor to Samsung’s F300, the SGH F330 has external music controls located on the front and side of the handset allowing for easy access. Multi tasking capability allows music to continue playing in the background while you access other features on the phone.

The mobile phone also supports multi-codec files and quick sync with windows media player to maximize the extensibility for music phone users.

The SGH F330 is a 3G handset, with HSDPA, supporting speeds of up to 3.6mbps. There is also a 2.0 megapixel camera, and support for memory expansion using Micro SD memory cards.

The SGH F330 will launch in Germany at the end of October, and in the rest of Europe afterwards. It wil have a SIM free price of around 260

The SGH F210 is another swivel style handset, successor to the X830. There is 1GB of inbuilt memory, with the option to increase this via Micros SD card slot, supporting cards currently up to 2GB.

The innovative design of the F210 gives the appearance of a standard MP3 player when closed, but swivel the handset open and you have a standard mobile phone. With the phone closed you have full access to most phone functions and all music player operations.

Fully compatible with Windows Medai Player 10, the F210 suuports a variety of music formats, including MP3, AAC, WMA and WMA DRM.

The F210 also has a 2.0 megapixel camera, and is supplied with necklace style earbud headphones.

Launching in Germany in mid October, the SGH F210 will launch in the rest of Europe shortly after. SIM free price is expected to be around 280

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[Source: The UK Mobile Phone Blog]