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Samsung SPH S4300 announced

Mon, 14 Aug 2006

Samsung to release a phone styled on some of the slimline mp3 players available.

The Samsung X830 is a stylish thin mobile phone based on the Korean version SPH-S4300 equipped with a rotating disc, which is used, for navigating through the phones features.

When closed the X830 looks like a standard MP3 player, but slide it open and you gain access to the keypad. BenQ-Siemens will soon be releasing their new slider phone in the form of the SL91, which again looks very similar to many popular MP3 players when closed, although it is a larger handset than the X830.

Most phones have MP3 playback functions as an afterthought, but the Samsung SPH-S4300 offers a paradigm shift by being an MP3 player first and a cellphone second. The SPH-S4300 comes with 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth and compatible with MP3/OGG/WMA formats. Data transfer is achieved via the USB port, and it can store up to 1GB worth of music in its internal memory .

The X830 is so slim that the numeric keys are placed two per row. It measures in at 85 x 29 x 20 mm and weighs in at 74 grams, with a screen size of 32 x 19 mm with a 128 x 220 pixel display .

Maybe we will see more of these types of phones being released, designed to look like MP3 players not mobile phones, or even just to look different much like the Nokia 7280 and Nokia 7380 which have no numeric keypad - just a navigational disc.

The X830 is due for release in Autumn 2006.
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