Samsung's SGH-E890 candybar ready for touching

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Samsung's SGH-E890 candybar ready for touching

by Darren Murph posted Dec 10th 2006 at 8:58PM

We sniffed out Samsung's SGH-E890 through an FCC filing awhile back, but now it's ready to rock (and be touched) in the Singapore market. While Samsung has blessed us with touchscreen offerings before, this candybar-inspired rendition touts tri-band operation, GRPS / EDGE, a 2.3-inch QVGA color screen, 1.3-megapixel camera, video recording / messaging, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, USB, voice recording, speakerphone, and even TV output. It also doubles as a music player, supporting MP3, AAC, and WMA, and includes 54MB of internet memory, a microSD slot, and even PictBridge compatibility. The Li-ion cell will reportedly last through 230 minutes of talk time and "up to 350 hours" in standby mode, and can be snagged now in Singapore for 568SGD ($368) sans contract, or 468SGD ($304) with a two-year plan.

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, GPRS, EDGE

Tags: bluetooth, bt, mp3, release, singapore, touchscreen, tri-band, tv, tv out, TvOut, video

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Paul @ Dec 11th 2006 10:10AM

The characteristic is quite pleasant but the design really disappoints me. I'm sure Samsung could make something more beautiful.

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=DC= @ Dec 11th 2006 11:27AM

It's a pretty nice looking Samsung phone, but what's with the low megapixels in the camera?

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JlrgK @ Dec 12th 2006 7:52PM

for what provider is this, and when will it come out?

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Jon @ Dec 12th 2006 12:22PM

Design of phone beautiful, but the chamber really could be more serious...

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Lonny Paul @ Feb 20th 2007 11:42PM

It's available now at TigerDirect - great for TMobile, you will miss the 850band on the Cingular network.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=2902295&sku=S127-1074

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