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Sprint temporarily loses its mind, wants $250 for Samsung Instinct HD

by Darren Murph posted Sep 24th 2009 @ 10:32AM

And you thought T-Mobile and Sprint were sniffing the good stuff when they demanded $350 for the HTC Touch Pro2. Shortly after Instinct HD boxes began showing up at select Sprint stores, the flagging carrier has finally come forward with an official ship date (9/27) and price. Try as we may, we still can't figure out why exactly "HD" is tacked on the end of this thing; the 480 x 320 display is decidedly average, it can't play back high-def content on the device itself, and the "HD" video output is a feature that approximately 3.8 Earthlings will ever use (on a phone like this, anyway). Compounding the problem is the remarkable lack of detail in the specifications -- Sprint simply swears that its 5 megapixel camera and video record mode are HD, but it fails to provide any elaboration whatsoever. Other specs include WiFi, EV-DO Rev A support, Opera Mobile 9.7, an ambient light sensor, haptic feedback and an accelerometer, but even those can't help justify the $249.99 (after a $100 mail-in rebate and a two-year agreement) asking price. Hey Sprint -- we thought you guys were actually looking to gain subscribers. Right?

UTStarcom's DV007 camcorder phone

by Chris Ziegler posted Jun 13th 2007 @ 6:28PM

'Round these parts, UTStarcom's best known for its hodgepodge of low-end offerings and its on-again, off-again relationship with HTC. In Hong Kong, though, well... check this out. You're looking at the UTStarcom DV007, a twist flip with a penchant for video recording. It rocks out with some flavor of Linux, a 2 megapixel camera, 40MB of onboard storage, and microSD expansion. The best part though? It's in your pocket for the equivalent of $140, if you can stomach the triband GSM radio.

[Via Slashphone]

Half phone, half camcorder: Samsung's SCH-B750

by Chris Ziegler posted May 10th 2007 @ 11:08AM

It looks like a bit of a beast, but at least it rocks a spec sheet to match its intimidating layout. The SCH-B750 (for Samsung's domestic Korean market, naturally) is being billed as a "camcorder phone" with a swiveling display and 3 megapixel shooter that combine to mimic the way you'd hold a small digital video camera (ring any bells?). Features include QVGA internal and OLED external displays, DMB, TV out, comprehensive media support, and microSD expansion. It's not as big as it looks, either, coming in at a reasonable 99 x 51 x 16 millimeters. No word on when exactly Koreans will be able to grab this puppy, but one thing's for certain: it'll be a lot sooner than we can.

Nokia's N93 caught in the wild

by Thomas Ricker posted Apr 28th 2006 @ 7:00AM

Hot on the heels of Nokia's N93 announcement are some shots of this camcorder/phone in the wild. Japanese site PlusD Mobile has plenty of snaps but little in the way of review commentary on Nokia's new flagship N-series phone expected to drop for some €550/$690 in July. So kick back, and feast on the eye-candy for a few until we can nab ya'll some actual MPEG-4 recordings from this pup. Then we'll see if Nokia's plan to take a bite out of the camcorder (and DAP player) bidness in the same way cellphones have kicked alarm clocks, wrist watches, and low-end digitalcams to the curb, is for realz. The N93 is certainly capable given its relative size (to a camcorder) and fact that it packs in a 3.2 megapixel Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens with image stabilization, microSD expansion, big 2.4-inch fold-out display, and the ability to pump video down the TV-out jack or over WiFi to any UPnP capable device. Ogle more pics after the break.

[Via Slashphone]

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