T-Mobile launches Samsung Beat

by Chris Ziegler, posted Oct 1st 2007 at 11:34AM

Attention, lovers of bizarre rings of color: your phone has arrived. Samsung's "Beat" for T-Mobile -- the SGH-T539 -- launches today, complete with that wild green ring of a speaker up front that we'd peeped before. The midrange, music-friendly flip comes bundled with a 1GB microSD card, two preloaded songs (hopefully not variations of that infernal T-Mobile theme ring), and stereo Bluetooth, along with a 1.3 megapixel camera and the now-standard myFaves support. Look for the Beat to drop today; we'll update with pricing information when we get it.

[Via Phone Scoop]

Update: The Beat runs $99.99 on a two-year contract.

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, GSM, EDGE

Tags: beat, clamshell, flip, samsung, sgh-t539, t-mobile, t539

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Goodman @ Oct 1st 2007 11:58AM

I kinda dig the green ring.

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C.J. Allebach @ Oct 1st 2007 12:37PM

"Look for the Beat to drop today"

Nice! LOL!

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SteveMB @ Oct 1st 2007 2:56PM

Looks like a Sansa.

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timatl @ Oct 1st 2007 2:58PM

Tmo is on a mission, 3 new pearls, a new curve, a new htc phone. they released the blast and razr 2. and don't forget 3 new sidekicks. i love options.

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Zach @ Oct 1st 2007 9:54PM

The Beat is a flip not a slider.

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Chris Ziegler @ Oct 1st 2007 11:45AM

Yep, caught that and updated, thanks. Would be a pretty miserable display otherwise ;-)

Chris

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frank @ Oct 2nd 2007 9:52AM

Kinda reminds me of my beloved V600, an old T-Mo favorite. It had a series of rings in the same spot that were invisible normally but lit up when the phone rang. The LED's could change to any color, which you could control through the software. It was kinda cool 4 years ago. It also had the all-time best keypad I've ever used.