Samsung Corby Folder shows up, CDMA and Korea only for now

The Samsung Corby line is growing by the minute – yet another one poped out, although unofficially. It brings a new form factor as well – meet the Samsung W930 a.k.a. Samsung Corby Folder.

The Samsung Corby Folder, as the name implies, is a clamshell, unlike all the other phones in the Corby line. The phone features a 2.6” QVGA display on the inside (there’s no secondary display), a 3MP camera plus a secondary video call camera and a microSD card slot.

The Folder also packs a DMB TV receiver, the portable digital television standard used in South Korea. Yep, Korea – for now the Samsung Corby Folder is CDMA-only and will not be available to the rest of the world. It’s possible that we’ll see a worldwide GSM version too, though not just yet.

The Samsung Corby Folder has three different model numbers – possibly one for each South Korean operator

The Samsung Corby Folder will be available in a variety of colors – it’s a Corby after all. I don’t know when it’s coming out or how much it will cost (though if I have to guess, I’d say – not much).

Source: Cetizen, SamsungHub

Samsung Shark series introduced: S5550, S5350, S3550

Lately Samsung like to release things in series. After the wave of Corby clones swept the touchscreen market, it's now the Sharks turn to try and conquer the entry-level market. The first three members of the new Shark lineup (Samsung S5550, Samsung S5350 and Samsung S3550) are supposed to help the company in its continuing quest for entry to lower midrange market domination.

Samsung S5350 Shark comes in the bar form factor and sports a 2.2" QVGA screen capable of displaying up to 262K colors. Dual-band 3G with 3.6Mbps HSDPA, quad-band GSM and a 3.2MP camera are its other key features.

Samsung S5350 Shark

Local connectivity on the Samsung S5350 Shark is enabled through Bluetooth, USB and a microSD card slot. The final key selling point of the Samsung S5350 Shark is its slim 11.9mm waistline.

The Samsung S5550 Shark 2 is the most functional of the predatory fish bunch. The stylish slider, which leaked last week, comes with a 2.2" AMOLED display of QVGA resolution and packs a 5 megapixel autofocus camera. Dual-band 3G with 3.6Mbps is also onboard as well as quad-band GSM which allows worldwide roaming.

Samsung S5550 Shark 2

The Bluetooth version is 2.1 and the USB is 2.0 on the Samsung S5550 Shark 2. The internal memory of 110 MB can be expanded through the built-in microSD memory card slot.

The final offering for today is the Samsung S3550 Shark 3 - a compact slider, which as the name suggests, has the shortest specs sheet of the lot. A 2" QVGA screen and quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE is as good as it gets for the Shark 3.

Samsung S3550 Shark 3

There is also a fixed focus camera on board with a maximum resolution of 2 megapixels. The final noteworthy features of the Samsung S3550 Shark 3 are Bluetooth 2.1, USB 2.0 and a microSD card slot.

There is no information about the availability or the pricing of any of the Samsung Shark handsets but those shouldn't take too long to appear or cost too much to purchase.

Samsung announce 32GB microSD cards, 64 GB moviNAND

Samsung have stuffed more memory in a tiny package than seemed possible a few years ago and announced their 32GB microSD cards. For integrated memory, they are readying chips with double that capacity - 64GB.

The previous best achievement in microSD cards capacity was 16GB but now that has been doubled. This feat of doubling the capacity of the previous generation seems to be the norm for flash memory.

These 32GB microSD from Samsung hits the 32GB limit of the microSDHC standard. The replacement standard is already in the works – the microSDXC standard. The microSDXC standard should allow microSD cards with a capacity of up to 2 TB to be released.

As for the chips meant for integrated memory, they’ll come in 64GB and will likely make their way to MP3 players and the new generation iPhone (3GS doubled the capacity of the 3G).

Mass production is expected to start next month and it won't be long until the cards reach the market. Compatibility of current devices with 32GB microSDHC cards and the future microSDXC cards is a completely different matter, of course.

First leaked screenshots of Samsung Bada OS

Soon after the official Samsung Bada OS presentation last week, the first screenshots made their way online. The new OS is a definite looker and you can really tell it’s based on Samsung’s current non-smartphone TouchWiz UI.

Now here’s a another set of screenshots…

I can’t stop seeing this as a colorful cocktail of TouchWiz, Android and a pinch of Symbian, but hey that’s just me.

It will be a lot of time before we see a working Bada smartphone, but Samsung will surely enter the fray with a nice set of wheels.

Sources:

Samsung Flash Wiki

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