Samsung launches 8 New Cell Phones in India

Samsung has launched no less than eight mobile phones for the Indian market. The new lineup also comprises of the the SGH-U900 aka the Soul. The Soul sports a minimalistic design with full metal body and premium look and feel. The U900 features Magic Touch by DaCP, that changes the navigation indicators on the keypad according to the user’s needs, making navigation of the menus simple, intuitive and direct. Also, the icons on the navigation panel change dynamically to match user needs.

At 12.9mm thin, it comes with a 5 megapixel camera with features such as face detection, image stabilizer and Wide Dynamic Range (WDR). Users can enjoy Internet access through the 7.2 Mbps High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) browser and share images or video taken with the phone.

Speaking at the launch, Sunil Dutt, country head of Samsung India, said, “We believe that the Soul is the answer for today’s style-conscious consumers, looking for a perfect blend of outstanding quality, design, and performance.”

Samsung launched the SGH-i780 and the D780 phones. The SGH-i780 comes with a full QWERTY keyboard and a full touch-screen. It runs on Windows Mobile 6.0; and offers push email and MS Office. It comes with GPS, an optical mouse, Wi-fi support, and 2 mega pixels camera. The D780, is a tri-band, dual-SIM phone equipped with SIM toggle key, 2.1-inches QVGA TFT display, 2 mega pixels camera, FM alarm, MP3 music player, email with XHTML, Bluetooth and Bluetooth printing capability, and support for up to 11 hours battery talk time.

Samsung also launched the SGH-E251, SGH-M120, and SGH-J150 mobile phones. The SGH-E251 is Samsung’s latest music phone, and comes with music control keys, a 1GB MicroSD, RDS enabled FM radio and MP3 player.

The SGH-M120 sports a stylish chrome finish and comes with MP3 music player, stereo FM radio, video camera, GPRS Class 10, Cricket game and call time tracker, Hinglish messaging, and 10MB internal memory. The SGH-J150 is only 9.9mm thick and sports a metallic design. It comes with a 1.9-inches display, 1.3 mega pixels camera, MP3 music player, FM radio, Bluetooth connectivity and expandable memory (MicroSD).

Another much talked about new phone is the BeaT450, powered by ICEPower amplifiers by Bang and Olufsen, which provides pulsating 3D surround sound. Samsung claims storing, accessing, and juggling music on this phone would be a great experience due to the music wheel and the dual-slider form factor.

In the entry-level segment, Samsung launched the new Guru 145 and the Guru 300. The Guru 145 represents entry-level in the Guru series. It comes with a 65k color CSTN display, speaker phone, mobile tracker, 16 poly-phonic ring tones, and 8 hours battery talk time. The Guru 300, is a stylish pearl-finish flip phone. It offers multimedia features including FM recording, MP3 ring tones, Hinglish messaging, Indian calendar and Java games.

Pricing & Availability:

The U900 Soul is priced at Rs. 20,585/- while SGH-i780 is at Rs 25,000/-.
The SGH M120 is priced at Rs 3,795/-, SGH J150 at Rs 5,300/-.
The BeaT450 is priced at Rs 14,799/-.The Guru 145 goes for Rs. 1,696/- and Guru 300 for Rs.2,999/-.