The new Samsung C3200 Monte Bar is a simply-styled mobile phone that, as its name might imply, features a solid bar form casing. The device itself is very easy to hold and use and comes with a decent range of features that will help the user in terms of everyday communication, and also comes complete with some functions for enjoyment and entertainment as well. In basic functionality the Bar comes complete with an integral camera, an FM radio and an extremely colourful icon display menu, and being part of the new Samsung Monte range of phones it also features many of the same concepts integrated into the Monte Slider and S5620 Monte.

In terms of appearance the Monte Bar features black casing and fairly bright orange-gold sections along each side of the device which provides a nice flash of colour, making the phone stand out. In the hand the casing feels smooth and is very comfortable with its lightweight design allowing to pack everything into a mere 77.3 grams. The Monte Bar’s dimensions also support this analysis, with measurements of 111.8mm long, 46.9mmwide and 13.3 mm deep. As a result it is not only svelte and lightweight in the hand and easy to carry but also fits comfortably into any pocket for ease of transportation.

The Bar also comes equipped with a 2-inch colour screen with a screen resolution of 240×320 pixels. One of the joys of this colourful display is the icons necessary for app selection display on the main menu which aids the user in making their feature selections. There is also a select key and a menu key, making the overall handset experience extremely user-friendly. The keypad itself is well-appointed in a nice ark shape, and the individual keys themselves and well-spaced allowing comfortable and easy typing.

With regards to entertainment and features, the Monte Bar fully supports both downloadable and Java games, great for those with a gaming addiction. The phone’s camera is a mere 2 megapixels however which, despite being a little low on the resolution stakes, does comes with the added advantage of being able to instantly share your captured photos with your friends via the MMS facility or store on your device for transfer later. The user may also choose to record videos at speeds of up to fifteen frames per second via the device’s two-megapixel camera.

The Monte Bar supports a range of video playback files to allow it to play and not just record media, however, including MPEG4, H263 and H264. The user can also play music in a range of file formats as well including WMA, MP3 and eAAC+. The built-in FM radio also supports a radio data system and radio recording.

The Monte Bar’s communication is good, and allows multimedia messaging via the popular MMS system through which the user can share a range of photos and video clips with other users that utilise the same service. MMS-sent messages can include texts with sound and also a photo or video clip, allowing an all-around fun method of communication between friends and family. The text facility also includes a predictive function, allowing the words the user types in a text to be stored and predicted the next time the user inputs the same word. Whilst this can be irritating on some formats it works well for most general users and allows for rapid text input.

Connectivity wise the device supports Bluetooth, allowing the user to connect to other such compatible devices wirelessly as long as the two devices being connected are within ten metres of each other. GPRS and EDGE are also supported, allowing for the rapid transfer of data between devices. The Monte Bar also boasts 40 MB of integral memory and further storage capacity is possible by means of a memory card connection though a MircoSD memory card slot. For those who like to get online while out and about the integral Internet browser can be accessed through the phone’s main menu, and the Internet icon is easy to find on the main screen. Usefully, the device’s fully-charged battery will afford the user a whopping 8.3 hours of talk time, helping ensure connectivity if you expect to spend long hours on the phone on a regular basis.

Samsung have a reputation for producing simple and reliable mobile phones. They often quote that their phones are Eco friendly, but like many products it is hard for everyday consumers to tell whether they really are or not. That all changed however when Samsung released their new phone, the Samsung Blue Earth. The Samsung blue earth looks like a normal phone from the front, but when you look at the back everything changes. The back is covered with one big solar panel built into the back of the phone. It means that you do not have to use expensive electricity to power your phone, you can just leave it facing towards the sun and it will charge automatically.

Having a built in solar panel also means that the Blue Earth will never run out of battery when you are out, and if it does you simply face it towards the sky to recharge. The phone is made from a lot of recycled household plastic, which helps by stopping factories having to produce new plastic from scratch, which gives off poisonous chemicals into the environment. It also saves you a bit of money as the plastic is not so expensive recycled.

The phone features a 3.2 megapixel camera, great for taking photographs whilst out and about at times when you are without your digital camera. Everything about the phone is Eco friendly, even the box that the phone arrives in can be recycled and made into a photo frame or a pen holder, meaning that nothing is going to waste. The Blue Earth is due for release in Sweden this month, with the rest of Europe and Asia following shortly after.

The Samsung Blue Earth is one of the latest eco-friendly phones to hit the market. Available since the fourth quarter of 2009, this phone utilizes some really cool features that enable users to lessen their negative impact on the earth.  Its screen is made from recyclable materials.  Old plastic from water bottles known as PCM was used.  The phone also has a solar panel on the back of it which is able to generate enough energy from the sun that users can make phone calls.  It also leaves out some very harmful materials that most other cell phones include, such as Phthalate, Beryllium and Brominated Flame Retardants.

Besides the obvious environmental benefits of this phone it also is a very nice handset.  As far as specs and features, it has a touchscreen display that is 3.0 inches and 240 x 320 pixels. It is also able record video. The handset comes standard with a 3.15 megapixel camera.

Individuals will be able to download and listen to their favorite MP3s with the phone’s built-in music player.  Users are also able to listen to local stations via the phone’s FM radio.  It is possible to message ones family and friends with the handset. The phone’s GPS system comes standard as does support.

Overall, the Samsung Blue Earth is a really nice phone even aside from its eco-friendliness. It is a quality handset that is on par with many of the other very good ones on the market. Individuals who want to buy a green phone but don’t want to sacrifice when it comes to quality, features and specs may want to take a closer look at the Samsung Blue Earth. It uses recycled materials that would otherwise be dumped in the ocean or buried and also solar energy. While it won’t save the earth by itself, it does make it possible for each individual to do its small part.

The Samsung C3510 Genoa is a nice, attractive, introductory phone which will soon be available in Europe. It was previously called the Samsung C3510 Corby Pop and sold exclusively in India. With the phone’s expansion into Europe, the phone has undergone some minor changes, along with the name.

The Genoa is pretty inexpensive phone, with a good amount of features. Users will be able to take pictures on the camera’s 1.3 megapixel phone. It has a 2.8 inch, resistive touch screen with  QVGA resolution. Individuals will be able to go hands free with the phone’s Bluetooth technology, listen to downloaded music and FM radio.

The phone gives users access to top social networking sites, Twitter, Facebook and Myspace. They will be able to check their status and update their own. It is also extremely easy for users to upload photographs to Flickr and Picassa.

The C3510 is priced at the lower end of the handset market. It is not the cheapest handset available but it is priced far below the more expensive models. It offers users a good amount of value for the price. Sure, those who purchase the Genoa won’t have the same high end features as more expensive phones, but individuals won’t have to shell out as much cash either. The Genoa has enough to keep a large number of users happy and its low price should at least give it a chance to be competitive in this crowded mobile phone market.

The Samsung C3510 Genoa looks like it will be priced at 100 euros. It should be available by the end of this year’s first quarter. This would mean that it is almost guaranteed to hit the marketplace sometime in March of this year. It is available at a few stores online, already, one which is based in Turkey.

The term diva is a pretty popular one. Traditionally used to describe a female that is fabulous, flamboyant and in charge, the Samsung S7070 Diva attempts to embody all of those things. This phone is definitely for the ladies. Samsung continues to take aim at the female mobile phone market. It will be interesting to see how things shake out.

The S7070 Diva is feature rich. It has a 3 inch touch screen and a mega pixel camera. It offers users Bluetooth, FM radio and autofocus camera with resistive display. Owners can add more memory via a MicroSD card.

The Diva is not yet available for purchase and no price point has been set. The company does plan to release the phone to the public during the early part of 2010.

There are currently two phones in this design line. The first is the S7070 Diva.  The second is the S5150, codename Olivia.  The latter is a clamshell flip phone. It has a mirrored case and the external display is decorative.

The Olivia has a 2.2 inch QVGA internal display. It also allows individuals to take decent pictures with its 3 Mega pixel camera. This particular phone is also set to be released to the general public, during the first quarter of 2010 of by March.

Both the S7070 and the S5150 Diva mobile phones were surprises to the general public. There were no promotional efforts made to generate buzz before any big reveal. The reasons why or why not, are unknown. What the public does know is that Samsung is introducing two phones aimed at female mobile users. The concept seems kind of cool and will likely appeal to teens and those who might prefer a more feminine phone. With companies grasping at ways to be unique, Samsung may have found a really simple and effective way to continue to generate sales from a proven but until recently somewhat untapped market, women.

Samsung have a good reputation for releasing new mobile phones, and in general heir phones have been found to have very few flaws, if ever. First released in July 2009, since it’s release date the phone has had great selling figures, and proves to be one of Samsung’s best selling phones.

Featuring a 1.3Megapixel camera, the phone is perfect for taking the occasional snap, and saving it to your memory card or transferring it to your computer. Whether you want an affordable phone, or just a cheap run around phone, the Samsung M2510 could be the perfect option for you. Featuring a micro SD slot which can take up to 8GB cards, you can store as much or as little music, video and film on your phone.

The phone comes with up to 360 hours battery on standby time, and up to 8 hours talk time. This allows you to constantly keep your phone on without worrying about charging it. It also allows you to go on long trips where electricity is not available, your phone will stay turned on.

The phone comes with a built in FM radio tuner, which allows you to listen to radio as you go. This is an extremely useful feature if you need to chill out and just listen to some music or spoken word.

With down-loadable games, ring tones and true music tracks, you can always have to latest releases on your phone ready to play when you feel like it. And with such a large battery life, you can play your games for long periods of time without draining the battery.

If you want one of these New samsung’s

Samsung announces that in 2010 two new phones will hit the market designed especially for female users. The Samsung Diva (S7070) and the Diva Folder (S5150) are both fashionably designed phones specifically with woman in mind. They are for women who look for a highly fashionable and luxurious lifestyle.

They are elegantly designed with a quilted back cover that has a haute couture look to it. As these phones hit the market not only are the designed for elegance but even the features had woman in mind. They include a ‘Beauty Effect’ and a ‘Lomo Effect’.

Every woman deserves to have her inner diva let loose and this phone will help do just that. Modern woman play a huge role in the world around us. These phones are definitely attention getting phones. Samsung spokesman are quoted as saying “the diva collection is a long term goal to help meet the needs of woman who happen to be an important target demographic”.

The Samsung Diva has a pearly white quilted backing with a diamond shaped button on the front. It also boasts a 3.2 megapixel camera, pop up SNS for use with notifications from Facebook and Myspace. It also has multi instant messengers

The Diva folder comes with a hidden LED screen, the back cover is silver toned. The camera has a ‘Beauty shot’ and ‘Lomo shot’ effects. Both phones come with security features like ‘Fake Call’ and ‘SOS Message’.

The initial launch of these new Diva phones is set for January of 2010 and will be launching primarily in European countries to start with and Asia shortly after that.

As the Korean mobile manufacturer Samsung tries to lead the mobile industry with high end phones, it still maintains its feet to the ground with the release of this new mobile phone most users should give a try. The mobile market is now featuring a typical mobile phone with a touch of class and functionality.

Affordable and Not So Average

Samsung S5560 is available in various Orange contracts that would fit any person’s budget. The mobile phone would be available in locked in contracts and as a retail handset too which on the estimate should have a tag of less than €300 only. But what is more important than its surprisingly low price are the features that come with it.

Packed with a high quality 5 megapixel auto focus camera, users will surely enjoy taking photos wherever they are. It even comes with a smile and blink detector and a very useful LED flash. Other mobile phones that come close to this one only brag of 3 megapixel integrated cameras so this makes the Samsung S5560 a better choice. Not only that, it has a 3 inch wide TFT WQVGA display for users to experience full touch pleasure. It is equipped with a TouchWiz user interface that makes mobile phone navigation a breeze. And to maximize the viewing experience of users, it has an accelerometer that automatically rotates the screen and gives motion sensitive navigation.

Connect with Contacts Easier

The Samsung S5560 also offers various connectivity options that users will surely appreciate. Connectivity tools of the mobile phone are Quad Band GSM/EDGE, Wi-Fi 802.11g, Bluetooth 2.1, USB 2.0 and WAP 2.0. Though 3G seems to be missing, it is actually compensated by Wi-Fi for this connection is free in most spots. Aside from that, it gives the users fast access to the internet especially when downloading files or just browsing the web. More than that, sending and receiving emails is made possible with IMAP/POP/SMTP connection tools. Overall, this touch phone is a really good find.

Italian fashion house Armani has once again collaborated with South Korean mobile phone giant Samsung with the release of what could be the world’s most powerful and largest fashion smartphone – the Samsung B7620 Giorgio Armani. One look at its humongous body typical of many QWERTY slider touchscreen smartphones out there, this is not for the faint at heart and wallet.

It shatters every conceivable notion of how a fashion should be.  With a hefty body weighing all of 164 grams and a bulkiness reserved only for large hands, the new Samsung Armani just might get away as a new fashion genre that Samsung hopes will appeal to the older, more mature and certainly richer market segment with the same flair for fashion as the young crowd but with more finesse.

Brainy and Bold

Like its B7610 Omnia Pro twin dressed in a more ostentatious Gold or Bronze body, the third Samsung-Armani collaboration runs on the Windows Mobile 6.5 to give it desktop multitasking capability as functional familiarity for corporate users. It has all the required readers so you view and edit MS Office files, a full internet browser with the latest Opera and push email that businessmen just love on their Blackberry phones.

But it gets better than the Omnia Pro with a tilting display halve when fully slid out for a more ergonomically comfortable typing and viewing on its gorgeous 3.5” Wide VGA AMOLED touchscreen. It also ups the Omnia Pro’s 1GB to 8GB of internal memory expandable to 32 GB from its microSD slot as well as high resolution 5 megapixel autofocusing camera.

As a quad band GSM and tri band WCDMA in 3G, it has HSDPA/HSUPA, WiFi 802.11 b/g, A-GPS and Bluetooth 2.0 data connectivity features. There’s a more generous 8 GB of internal memory and a 5-megapixel autofocus camera where the Omnia only has 1 Gb and a 3 megapixel camera.

Availability

The Samsung B7620 Giorgio Armani is expected to hit most European and Middle East countries during the last quarter of the year in time for the holidays. As an upscale smartphone carrying the Giorgio Armani mark and aura, it’s SIM-free price of about €700 or equivalent isn’t for everyone. But so is an Armani suit.

The Samsung Genio QWERTY (known as the Corby TXT outside of the United Kingdom) is a messaging based mobile phone that trades off a touch screen for a full QWERTY keyboard. The phone is portrait oriented and can be operated with just one hand if you have to. The only catch is the very flat keyboard layout that totally makes high-speed typing difficult unless you really get used to the keyboard layout.

Another problem with the slightly flat keys (they are raised a little) is that users with large thumbs will definitely keep getting a lot of typos. Despite lacking any other features outside of messaging and media playback functions, the Genio QWERTY makes up for its budget friendly price. This review of the Genio QWERTY goes further into the details.

QWERTY Features

Aside from the keyboard, this groovy little messaging phone offers users with a choice of colors and designs with the interchangeable covers.  It’s a nice touch that adds to the appeal of the Genio to the younger mobile market.

This mobile phone comes with a 2.2 inch TFT LCD screen with a display resolution of 176 x 144 pixels. It can show up to 262K colors and at 144 lines, the fonts are easy to read without squinting.

The 2 mega pixel may leave some people wanting, but that’s decent compared to the lack of WiFi and 3G, this device will definitely not see much smart phone users switching. Still, it’s a good package for GSM folks. The phone has EDGE for internet instead.

On Contract

There are plenty of great QWERTY deals on Vodafone, T-Mobile and on Orange Mobile. The device is available for free on some plans and for a good price on various pay as you go deals (for anyone who does not like having a monthly tariff).