Metro TV

Samsung has launched two new handsets-Corby TV and Metro TV in India. By doing this, Samsung becomes the first in India to provide live TV services on CDMA mobile phones. The phones come with an application called MImobiTV, which allows you to enjoy live and recorded videos on your handsets. The live TV is streamed through EVDO, which provides high-speed internet with speeds up to 2.4 Mbps. At present, Samsung offers 40 live channels and 10 content-on-demand channels on these new mobiles.

Corby TV Specs

Corby TV comes with an excellent 2.8-inch TFT display and has a highly optimized content bit rate. This enables easy streaming and provides you with picture perfect TV viewing experience. Corby TV has a support for Mobile TV streaming service in both CDMA 1X and EVDO 3G mobile networks. The phone features a decent 2MP camera with video recording .The phone also comes with 32 one-touch widgets and supports 8GB Micro SD card.

Samsung is also offering free software upgrades to Corby Speed users. It is upgrading some of the features of Corby Speed to Corby TV. The Corby TV is brought to you at an affordable price of Rs 9,699.

Metro TV Specs

Samsung has also launched Metro TV in Indian market. The phone’s screen size is however less than that of Corby. It has a 2-inch TFT display and comes with dedicated music keys. It also features an advanced mobile tracker and SOS alert. The Metro TV is priced at Rs 6,999.

Samsung has also launched data usage plans for Tata and Reliance Mobile customers. It offers a Free Mobile TV Subscription to Tata users for 3 months from the date of activation. In addition to this, it provides you with 15GB data usage free per month, up to 2 months for postpaid and 10GB data usage free for 2 months on Prepaid. The Reliance Mobile users will have the same offer but the offer will be just for one month.

S3370

At the TeleVision 2010 held in Netherlands, Samsung showcased one of their (as yet) unannounced phones, the Samsung S3370 smart phone. While there was a photo leak about a month ago for the Samsung S3370 cellphone, no details were then available and so we did not see fit to write up on it. Now however, Samsung has made available some of the tech specs of the Samsung S3370 and we have clearer photos of it too.

The Samsung S3370 mobile phone is set to have a 2.6″ TFT resistive touchscreen, a 1.3 MP camera, Bluetooth 2.1, USB 2.0, FM radio and 3G connectivity. Somewhat like the Samsung Reality, the Samsung S3370 cellphone is a full touchscreen phone and does not feature a physical keypad.

This means that the Samsung S3370 smart phone is really quite compact (99.9 x 53 x 12.9 mm) although perhaps a shade thicker than the iPhone and similar high end smart phones. The Samsung S3370 mobile phone weighs about 86g which is pretty light and should mean that it is comfortable to handle.

The Samsung S3370 cellphone has already been labeled as an entry-level touchscreen phone and truth be told that is pretty much what the Samsung S3370 smart phone looks like to us too.

I6500U Galaxy

Samsung I6500U Galaxy is a new phone powered by a fast 800MHz processor, and runs on the Android v2.1 OS. The phone also boasts Google Talk integration, A-GPS support, Bluetooth V2.1, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, as well as 180MB of internal storage and a 3.2-inch touchscreen. People are very happy with such a phone.

On the Samsung I6500U Galaxy Smartphone, the 3.2-inch display features a 320 x 480 pixel resolution with 16M colors. The phone measures 117 x 59 x 13.3mm and weighs 126g. The 3.15 megapixel camera comes with face/smile detection, Geo-tagging, 15fps CIF video. It has an internal memory of 180MB and expandable up to 32GB via microSD card slot.

Features & Specs:

• 3G Network HSDPA 850 / 2100
• Speakerphone Yes
• 3.5 mm audio jack
• Internal 180 MB storage
• 800 MHz processor
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
• Java Via third party application
• MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
• MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA player
• Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
• YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk integration
• Organizer
• Document viewer
• Voice memo

Samsung I9000 Galaxy S

Competition is certainly one of the things that make the Android OS so much fun. There are already several manufacturers involved in the Google OS game and each of them has already released a flagship that aims at the peak of the food chain.

Samsung might be coming a tad late to the party but they are obviously entering with a bang. The I9000 Galaxy S packs a display of the greatest technology that the mobile world has ever seen and a pretty big one at that. A snappy 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, HD video recording and a sweetly slim waistline make it look like the real deal in the eyes of every real geek.

Let’s take a look at the other features that the Samsung I9000 Galaxy S puts to the table.

Samsung I9000 Galaxy S at a glance:

General: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 900/1900/2100 MHz, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps,

• HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
• Form factor: Touchscreen bar phone
• Dimensions: 122.4 x 64.2 x 9.9 mm, 118 g
• Display: 4" 16M-color Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 480 x 800 pixels
• CPU: Samsung Cortex A8 Hummingbird 1 GHz processor
• OS: Android 2.1 (Eclair)
• Memory: 8/16GB storage, microSD card slot
• Camera: 5 megapixel auto-focus camera with face detection and touch focus; 720p video recording at 30fps
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP, standard microUSB port, GPS receiver with A-GPS, 3.5mm audio jack
• Misc: TouchWiz 3.0 UI, built-in accelerometer, multi-touch input, proximity sensor, Swype text input

As you can see the Samsung I9000 Galaxy S specs sheet is long enough to be considered high-end. What’s even better is that it manages to put something on top, namely the large 4” Super AMOLED display, which should become the new thing to beat if it has the performance of the Samsung S8500 Wave unit.

The Samsung I9000 Galaxy S at ours

The TouchWiz-like Android customization still had some performance issues on the Galaxy Spica so we will have to see if those are fixed for the Galaxy S. We are also yet to check out how the new 1GHz Samsung Cortex A8 CPU compares to its Snapdragon peers in the Android environment, but we have a good feeling about it.

At any rate the Samsung I9000 Galaxy S is a fine piece of mobile technology and we are as eager as you to see if it will actually manage to top the charts or end up in the chasing pack. So let’s not waste any more time and head to the hardware part of the preview where we’ll examine the Galaxy S ergonomics.