Harking back to a seemingly bygone era when mobile phones offered just integrated music and photography, not a complete PC alternative, Samsung has sung us this a new line…

‘The Beat’ range will comprise two handsets: the ‘s’ for slider and ‘b’ for candybar (yes, slightly confusing) – also known as the ‘M3200′ and ‘M3510′. Both are aimed towards the lower end of the market but offer near 1cm waistlines and a few nice surprises.

In the case of the s (M3200), you get DNSe (Digital Natural Sound engine) and a Bang & Olufsen ‘ICEpower’ audio chip for improved sound quality, stereo Bluetooth (A2DP), an FM tuner with RDS and recording ability, that all important 3.5mm headphone jack and an accelerometer which enables ‘Motion Play’, ie: tracks to be skipped with a hearty shake.

Automatic mood based music playlists are available too (as seems the current trend) plus Shazam’s excellent ‘Find Music’ service, while on the hardware side a 2MP camera, 2in QVGA display and microSD memory card slot round things off.

As for the b (M3510) – form factors aside – it is virtually identical feature-for-feature and spec-for-spec so your main decision is primarily aesthetic.

Both Beat phones will be launching in early October and expect them to be a hit (pun very much intended) on the PAYG scene while any kind of monthly contract should land them for free.

It seems Nokia’s much-awaited touchscreen phone, Tube, is finally set for a launch.  According to reports, the touchscreen device from the world’s biggest manufacturer of mobile phones is ready for a launch on October 2.

The interface shares many of iPhone features, including the screen that can be change to portrait or landscape depending on how user holds it. Nokia published that it will be their first touch device.

The phone is expected to come with features like GPS, HSDPA, WiFi and TV out.

Other than Nokia, almost all other major mobile phone manufacturers in India have introduced their touch screen mobiles in this year. Internet search giant Google also have launched its first touchscreen phone powered by Android software. So it’s gone be a very very risky and hard season for the major mobile phone manufacturers.

LG, is one of the top mobile sellers in India. They are now going to launch two new handsets, which is named as GB110 and  GB106. Both the handsets are belonging to lower middle class which will be targeting the middle class people. Both LG handsets, GB110 and  GB106 are candybar phones with quite a few features.

Features of LG GB106

It sports a 1.5 inch 65k color screen. FM Radio and a strong receiver. 1.5MB of memory. 400 hours of standby time and four hours of talk time on a single charge.

Features of LG GB110

LG GB110 sports the same features as GB106 except for the addition of a microSD card slot that supports up to 2GB of memory. The GB110 also adds a VGA camera to the features list. LG GB 110 is  slightly costlier among the two new LG handsets.

The phones which are  slated to reach the market very soon has not yet revealed any thing related to it’s pricing or availability.

LG are launching their new mobile in India, which is named as LG KF750. It’s a sliding type phone with various features in it. The screen space pixels of this phone is about 2.4″ , 240×320 pixels.

This new phone LG KF750 can be considered as the slimmest 5MP camera phone available in India. This phone is having an internal memory of 164 MB, but out of which only 80 MB is available to the user. The memory can be extended upto 4 GB.

The other main features of the phone are it’s Touch Media, Auto Luminance Control and the Neon Touch Navigation. The phone is manufactured with Carbon Fiber Back cover and Scratch proof Tempered Glass.

The phone is expected to have a price around Rs 18990/-

Samsung launched their new phone F400, a dual slider music phone equipped with ICEpower technology.The music phone featuring Smart Bass, which provides rich, deep and powerful sound, and Smart Limiter which ensures an audio signal to not exceed the amplitude of the threshold.

It’s design is in more restrained fashion than some of those touchy-feely would-be superphones, with a plain if glossy black front surrounded by silver on the sides.The phone is quite thick at 18mm, it feels lighter than it looks.The sides of the phone are equipped with volume buttons, a power input that doubles as headphone socket, dedicated buttons for quick access to music and camera, plus a MicroSD card slot – essential for allowing you increase the storage capacity from built in 20MB memory to a maximum of 8GB with a memory card.

The phone includes many other latest sound enhancing technologies,such as Digital Natural Sound engine (DNSe) 2.0 which brings an ideal and customized sonic experience for every genre of music.By simply pressing a music hot key button placed on the side,all the great music features are esily accessible. 

 F400 is ready to make calls with a metallic keypad that is softly brushed with hairline pattern,when slide up the cellphone and when slide down, F400 turns into a music player, revealing hidden dual stereo speakers that pump up quality sound.  

Specifications:

• Standard: HSDPA Tri-band (900, 1800, 1900 MHz) 3.6Mbps
• Display: 2.2″ 262K TFT
• Camera: 3-megapixel camera with AF and LED Flash
• Memory: 1GB microSD included (microSD support up to 8GB)
• Dual stereo speakers; an external speaker
• Dual slider
• Audio by Bang & Olufsen ICEpower
• Smart Bass; Smart Limiter
• DNSe 2.0
• Music Recognition
• 3.5 mm earphone jack
• Music hot key; silver wheel navigator
• WMPRM/ MTP
• FM Radio (RDS)
• Bluetooth v 2.0
• USB 2.0 HS mass storage
• Size: 103.2 X 48.2 X 16.9 mm 

Short Review of Samsung F400