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Following a December firmware boost, users of Sony Ericsson’s much-maligned Satio should start gearing up for another significant update that — at a glance, anyway — brings some pretty awesome new features to the table. On top of a promise that it’ll “rectify some issues, [and] optimize performance even further,” Sony Ericsson’s high-end Symbian set gets WVGA video recording (though VGA remains the default), integrated picture uploads to Facebook and videos to YouTube, DLNA support, sundry “UI improvements,” and firmware integration of the Facebook app that’s already available on PlayNow. Not bad for a phone that Sony Ericsson could’ve easily abandoned in favor of support for the Vivaz — but probably not enough to totally shake the phone’s tarnished rep this far into the game.

If this contoured piece of QWERTY kit looks familiar, it should — it’s the same as the Freeform that came late last year to Alltel. US Cellular’s version is the same thing (heck, it’s even the same color) with a 1.3 megapixel camera, 2.2-inch 176 x 144 display, four-row QWERTY keyboard, and memory expansion up to 16GB via microSD, perfect for the on-board MP3 player (and if you’re not a music kind of person, it’ll take you a good long while to fill up 16GB worth of storage 1.3 megapixels at a time). Pricing and availability haven’t yet been declare, but we’d expect it to be pretty easy on the pocketbook.

US Cellular follows Alltel’s lead, deploys Samsung Freeform originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

If this contoured piece of QWERTY kit looks familiar, it should — it’s the same as the Freeform that came late last year to Alltel. MetroPCS’ version is the same thing (heck, it’s even the same color) with a 1.3 megapixel camera, 2.2-inch 176 x 144 display, four-row QWERTY keyboard, and memory expansion up to 16GB via microSD, perfect for the on-board MP3 player (and if you’re not a music kind of person, it’ll take you a good long while to fill up 16GB worth of storage 1.3 megapixels at a time). Pricing and availability haven’t yet been declare, but we’d expect it to be pretty easy on the pocketbook.

MetroPCS follows Alltel’s lead, deploys Samsung Freeform originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.