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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA

Hardware fanatics, listen up — a golden egg has been laid in the form of the Samsung I7110. Arriving with a slightly sleeker design than on the earlier spotted i7110c, this Symbian S60-based candybar has been revealed to the world today in London. Specs wise, you’re looking at a luscious 2.6-inch AMOLED display, FM radio / transmitter , GPS navigation (with geotagging functionality), an accelerometer, “3D graphics,” Bluetooth 2.0, HSDPA and WiFi. Additionally, it packs a 5-megapixel camera (with Auto Focus and a LED flash), robust multimedia player (DivX support included), 50MB of internal memory, a microSDHC slot, video recording, 11-hours of talk time and a 12.9-millimeter thin body. Price remains a mystery, but those in Russia will be the first in the know when it launches there next month. Concerning everyone else? Patience.

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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Hot on the INNOV8’s trails comes another 8-megapixel phone out of Samsung’s frighteningly fast-paced labs, this one dubbed M8800 Pixon (is it just us, or does that sound like a great name for an alien life form?). They’re really mixing it up in this place, too — unlike the S60-based INNOV8, the Pixon packs a full-on 400 x 240 touchscreen and settles for Samsung’s proprietary non-smartphone platform. The OS seems to be the only place it’s settling, though, since we’ve got triband HSDPA, GPS, an FM radio, microSD expansion — and, oh yeah, there’s the little matter of that whopping cam with face detection, geotagging, and WVGA video recording. Sadly there’s no WiFi on board, but it’d be just a little less useful than normal without an honest-to-goodness smartphone OS as your playground — and at least you’ve got global 3G on your side. it seems like we can expect shipments of this one sometime in November for €550 (about $805).

[Via GSMArena]

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Filed under: Handsets, Sony Ericsson, GSM, HSDPA, UMTS

Yippee, it’s T700 day at Sony. First they launched the DSC-T700 digicam, at this time the T700 cellphone. The T700 candybar is mostly phone though with a smattering of camera just for kicks. We’re talking quad-band GSM and UMTS/HSDPA 2100 with 4.5-hours of 3G talk and a 3.2 megapixel camera with cell-id geotagging and photo light. It measures just 10-mm thin with Bluetooth A2DP, 2-inch TFT LCD, and 512MB of Memory Stick Micro (M2) storage tossed in the box. Available in “chosen markets” in Q4 for what’s expected to be a middling price tag.

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