Samsung launches BizBee family of business-oriented smartphones

by Darren Murph, posted Nov 26th 2008 at 2:10PM

We're not quite sure what Samsung's trying to pull here, but it's apparently using some BizBee moniker to revamp a few dusty smartphones with Windows Mobile 6.1. So far as we can tell, the BizBee family will house a "new range of designer business mobiles," though Samsung's starting off rather poorly by reintroducing the i780 with WinMo 6.1. Said handset will be re-launched initially in the UK, Nordics, Spain and Netherlands this month, though we're not sure if the marketing blitz will escape the clutches of Europe in order to serve as entertainment elsewhere. For Sammy's sake, we hope not.

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung

Tags: BizBee, europe, i780, london, Samsung, sgh-i780, smartphone, uk, Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile 6.1, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile6.1, winmo, winmo 6.1, Winmo6.1

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Jeff @ Nov 26th 2008 2:26PM

Looks like the AT&T Epix?

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RCC2k8 @ Nov 26th 2008 3:39PM

The i780 came before the Epix. But if Samsung is going to re-launch the i780, we can say they are going to Epixfy it. Oh, and that BizBee name is idiotic; it doesn't do justice to the supposedly business-oriented nature of the re-launch.

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rseijas @ Nov 26th 2008 3:58PM

BizBee? Wasn't he the guy in that TV show, "The Courtship of Eddy's Father"?

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the undude @ Nov 27th 2008 6:11PM

not that a picture like that is anything we should pin our hopes on, but THAT device
looks a lot better than the EPIX.
1) it's black;
2) it's matte, and not a shiny fingerprint magnet;
3) it looks a fair bit thinner.

I say bring it on.

Of course knowing how long it takes for these things to arrive in the usa, we should expect
this to be released stateside (if ever) sometime around next June....