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The lowly Moto V365 really can’t soldier on forever as AT&T’s only “rugged” (and we use that term loosely) clamshell; we’d thought the W760r was coming in to save the day, but sadly, it’s yet to materialize. So what’s a butterfingered AT&T subscriber to do? With any luck, the answer is to wait just a few more weeks, because Boy Genius Report claims that the Samsung a837 will launch in the mid-September timeframe with HSDPA, Video Share, Bluetooth, GPS, push-to-talk (naturally), and a 1.3-megapixel cam, making it AT&T’s first and only beefed-up 3G set. Yes, it could be prettier, but something tells us that’s not really the market AT&T’s going for in this place — then again, with de facto competitor Casio trotting out the Boulder in orange, maybe we’re off base on that one.

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Tags: Amp, Att, Boy Genius Report, Clamshell, Competitor, Handsets, Launch, Nbsp, Orange, Samsung, Soldier, Subscriber, Timeframe, Verizon

Filed under: Handsets, Features, Samsung, Verizon Wireless, Windows Mobile, GSM, EV-DO, CDMA

Don’t worry, you throng of dual-band Samsung smartphone fanboys and girls out there — Verizon hasn’t forgotten about you. It’s been a little while since we’ve heard anything about the i770, but a new slide shows that Big Red’s positioning it (or trying to, anyway) for Q3 availability, which just happens to be the very quarter that we’re currently in. It features GPS, quadband GSM (which is strange — typically Verizon’s dual-band devices only do GSM on non-North American bands), WiFi, a 2-megapixel camera, EV-DO, and possibly biometric security, though that particular feature is currently marked down as “tbd.” Next up in the global stable is the u810, a stylish clamshell with a microSD slot, 2-megapixel cam, and not bloody much else — not really a great choice for the globetrotting businessperson, so Verizon might have the frequent pleasure traveler in mind in this place.

[Thanks, HTC Kid]

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Tags: American Bands, Businessperson, Clamshell, Dual Band, Fanboys, Megapixel, Mobile Gsm, Nbsp, Pleasure Traveler, Q3, Samsung, Samsung I770, Samsung Mobile, Samsung Wireless, Slot 2, Smartphone, Stable, Verizon Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Wireless Windows

Filed under: Samsung

If there’s one thing smartphone can never be, it’s too fast. Yeah, granted, mobile processors have been intentionally throttled for years in the interest of keeping battery times reasonable — so we’re continuously delighted to hear when someone’s Makesomething to boost speeds in different, creative ways. That’s where flash memory giant Samsung comes into play, rolling out new file systems and drivers for its OneNAND, Flex-OneNAND, and moviNAND storage solutions (none of which are pictured to the right) that it claims will slap a turbocharger on boot and access times. The new software is available for basically every major mobile operating system, and Sammy even claims that it’ll decrease engineering times, so it seems like it’s a win all the way around.

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Tags: Access Software, Access Times, Engineering Times, Flash Memory, Giant, Memory Software, Mobile Memory, Mobile Processors, Nbsp, New Software, Onenand, Operating System, Sammy, Samsung, Samsung Memory, Samsung Mobile, Smartphone, Storage Solutions, Turbocharger, Zoom