Get ready Guinness 'cause Samsung just launched an entire series of "World's slimmest" handsets. Sure, we've seen the
D830 clam,
X820 candybar, and
FCC approved D900 slider before, only now they've been turned-out onto that mean global scene official, spec'd, and rebadged with their ultra-slim, millimeter measurements right in the name: the Ultra Edition 9.9 (D830), 12.9 (D900), and 6.9 (X820) pictured left-to-right. The UE 9.9 brings tri-band (900/1800/1900MHz) GPRS/EDGE, a 2 megapixel cam with auto-focus and flash, a 2.3-inch 240x320 262k TFT main display (0.8-inch 92x16 grayscale external), Bluetooth, 80MB embedded memory with MicroSD expansion, MP3/AAC media player, and even an MPEG4 recorder with TV-out jack slammed into this world's slimmest flip. The UE 6.9 brings pretty much the same network coverage, cam, Bluetooth, media capabilities, and on-board memory as the 9.9 but had to forgo the microSD card and flash while dropping down to a 1.9-inch 176x220 262k TFT display in order to slip into that world's slimmest, 6.9-mm, 2.33-ounce dress. The relatively plump UE 12.9 takes advantage of all that, uh, roominess to squeeze in quad-band GPRS/EDGE, a 3.13 megapixel shooter, 2.1-inch 240x320 262k TFT, that good media lovin' we've already seen, Bluetooth with A2DP stereo audio support, and 80MB with microsSD expansion. Yeah, that makes it the world's slimmest slider, er, with 3 megapixel camera -- kind of a stretch, but that's how Sammy likes to roll. They didn't bother with drop dates, countries, or prices but the fact that the press release hit their English site gives us hope for this Samsung triptych to drop in the US sometime this year.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ooglek @ Jun 21st 2006 1:07PM
Holy Crow -- Sweeeet! I really really hope that Sprint either switches to GSM or Samsung releases this phone as CDMA. That's the big thing that annoys me about Sprint -- they don't always get the coolest phones because of friggin CDMA. Stupid Sprint.
supes @ Jun 21st 2006 3:01PM
That clamshell and slider are in a word... yummy.
stonelove @ Aug 22nd 2006 1:22PM
I got the d900 from yesterday. It's all that and then some, pretty much everything you'd expect in a phone. There are two major issues though, 1st one is the call volume SUCKS! I can barely make out the other parties voice above a whisper, and this is with the call volume set all the way to max. The external speaker doesn't really help either. It does sound better when you use the attached headset but who wants to be restricted to wearing a headset 24/7 whenever you want to make or receive a call?
2nd issue is for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to add or move files to the 1GB memory card I added to the phone. The phone sees it ok too.
Anyway the call volume issue is something i cannot live with, and unfortunately I'm going to have to get rid of this one and go with a nokia (aaarrrrggghh).
john @ Sep 14th 2006 10:35AM
Stonelove: WHERE DID YOU GET THESE PHONES? I'm so ready to buy one!
KC @ Sep 30th 2006 1:41AM
I previously have used the samsung D600 and have just recently upgraded to the samsung D900, its awesome. The call volume is completely fine, the plastic cover that protects the screen also covers the speaker so without removing it, it's very hard to hear but once removed the sound quality has no problem at all. Depending what you want to move to your memory card it is fairly easy to move an item. The most common item to move to your memory card is probably a mp3. first go to the file named "music" in your file manager. Second, select the song in which you would like to move to your memory card and than finally under "options" in the selected song there is an option to both move to card or one to copy to card. I love the phone, its sweet.