The avant-garde Samsung Galaxy sports a 3.2” AMOLED full touch-screen as well as7.2 Mbps HSDPA with WiFi connectivity. This enables the user to access Google™ services and enables comprehensive Web browsing at amazing speeds.

“Tata DOCOMO is a young brand that recently rolled out GSM services across eight circles (so far),” Mr. Deepak Gulati, President, Tata DOCOMO, said. “When we launched our services, we had promised our subscribers that we would bring to them the best products and services – products that will stand for innovation and a pioneering spirit, and which would offer them convenience and simplicity. Living up to that promise, we are launching the Samsung Galaxy with one-touch Google Mobile Services (GMS). This launch marks the beginning of Tata DOCOMO’s relationship with Samsung. We will continue working together to launch more innovative mobile offerings for Indian consumers on the Tata DOCOMO platform,” he added.

Announcing the launch, Mr. B D Park, Director of Telecom, Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd stated that, “We are very happy to be launching the Company’s first Android-powered mobile phone with Google Mobile Services in partnership with Tata DOCOMO. This powerful device will allow consumers to fully experience all mobile based Google applications on this phone. With its innovative features, Samsung Galaxy will offer a strong value proposition to discerning Tata DOCOMO customers.”

Samsung Galaxy i7500 provides the user the potential to access the comprehensive Google Mobile Services suite which includes Google Maps, Google Search, Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk, Google Calendar as well as Android Market.

The Samsung Galaxy, which is equipped with a GPS integrator, proved the user to utilize Google Maps features like My Location, Google Latitude, local search as well as detailed routes descriptions.

“Applications from the Android Market can be downloaded and installed on to this mobile over the air, without the use of a PC, thereby opening up an entire new world to the user.” states Mr. Asim Warsi, GM- Marketing, Samsung India Electronics Ltd.

This has been launched in all the DOCOMO circles with an offer of 500 MB free download per month, for a period of six months.

“At Tata DOCOMO, our promise has been to provide a refreshingly different experience to our fast-growing customer base,” Mr. Sunil Tandon, Regional Head, Tata DOCOMO, said. “The launch of the Samsung Android is part of that endeavour—to provide subscribers with a world-class product that lets them experience the vast range of applications of the Android Market.”

Samsung I7500 flaunts all the latest multimedia features. The large and vivid 3.2” AMOLED display ensures brilliant representation of multimedia content and an enjoyable full-touch mobile experience.

It supports a 5-megapixel camera along with numerous multimedia codec formats, the I7500 sports a long battery life (1500mAh) and munificent memory capacity (Internal Memory of 8 GB and Expandable External Memory up to 32 GB). The phone also flaunts a slim yet compact design and is just 11.9 mm thick.

Samsung Galaxy is meat exclusively for the constantly moving tech-savvy and up market consumers, who are always need to keep themselves updated with the world.

The Samsung Galaxy is one of the most innovative and high-quality Android-powered devices on the market. The i7500 is a cutting –edge smartphone from Samsung. The handset is said to feature a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display. It also offers support for 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and WiFi connectivity. The Galaxy promises to provide access to Google Mobile Services and other Internet sites at a faster speed.

The familiar Google services on the PC are ready and waiting on the Samsung Galaxy including: Google Search™ Google Maps™, Gmail™, Google Talk™. It also has an integrated GPS receiver meaning you can make full use of Google Maps to guide you in the car or on foot.

The 5 megapixel camera promises to capture all the special moments in vibrant colors. The internal 8GB memory can be expanded up to 32GB. This huge memory allows users to enjoy their multimedia content virtually anywhere. The 1500mAh battery of this handset claims to provide a longer battery life. The slim and compact form factor further enhances the appeal of this handset.

Tata DOCOMO is very young in market and available in 8 circles only at the moment and growing as 1 paisa tariff is quite impressive. They are bringing this phone in order to capture tech-savvy market.

Samsung Galaxy i7500 Features:

• 3.2-inch AMOLED touch screen with light sensor
• Enhanced touch sensitivity and anti-scratch Display
• Google Chrome-Lite browser0
• 5MP camera
• 8GB of internal memory
• GPS with Digital Compass
• All Google Services like Search, Gmail, YouTube, Google Calendar, and Google Talk
• HSDPA 7.2Mbps / HSUPA 5.76Mbps (900 / 1700/ 2100MHz)
• GSM/EDGE / GPRS (850/ 900/1800/1900)
• 528MHz CPU with 128MB RAM running latest Android OS v1.5
• 3.2” HVGA(320×480) AMOLED Screen
• 5 MP Camera with Auto Focus & LED Flash
• Bluetooth 2.0
• WiFi
• MicroUSB
• 3.5mm audio jack
• 1500 mAH Battery

The Samsung Galaxy i7500 will be made available at an introductory price of Rs. 28,990.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.,  today reinforced its leadership in the high megapixel cameraphone market by unveiling Samsung Pixon12 (M8910) – the world’s first 12-megapixel camera phone with full-touch screen.

A response to today’s consumers who demand robust camera features in their mobile phones, the Pixon12 comes packed with a host of functions which enable consumers to easily capture, browse and share their images on the move – all on a brilliant full-touch 3.1-inch AMOLED screen.

“The Pixon12 is testament to how Samsung’s ongoing consumer research enables us to develop ground-breaking products that do not just meet but surpass our customers’ expectations. Speedy access to the camera mode, fast shutter speed and quick browsing are some of the key factors consumers are looking for in their mobile phone cameras” said Executive Vice President JK Shin, Head of Mobile Communication Division in Samsung Electronics.

He added, “We are very pleased to introduce the world’s first 12-megapixel camera phone that holds the answer to these pressing consumer needs.”

Instant Shoot

The Samsung Pixon12 enables users to take perfect pictures quickly and easily, thanks to a Dedicated Camera Power Key which gives users fast one-touch access to the camera function. Once the camera is turned on, users can aim and snap, capturing images as fast as today’s advanced digital camera. Samsung Pixon12 also features fast image saving for next shot, so users can move to next shot within around 2 seconds.

The phone provides the best photo quality by adopting innovative camera features. With Touch Auto-Focus (AF) tracking, users can simply select focus point with the touch of a finger, after which the AF function will automatically follow the object, keeping it in focus even as it moves across the screen. Moreover, Smart Auto feature allows users to capture the perfect images as the camera automatically changes the scene and mode based on its object, background and lighting.

Images taken on the Pixon12 are worth showing off to friends and loved ones as they boast digital camera quality thanks to the phone camera’s superb lens and Xenon flash.

The 28mm wide angle lens also allows a better perspective and more full capture of a scene for consumers.

Instant See

After they are done snapping, users can re-live and enjoy the pictures on the Pixon12’s brilliant 3.1” AMOLED screen. The screen boasts a contrast ratio of 10,000:1 while providing power-saving features which increase battery life.

Finally, the Pixon12 enables users to easily organize and manage photos with multiple ways of sorting – by tags, file names, ratings, and time. In addition, the multi-selection feature enables users to pull up images in groups rather than one by one, making viewing and editing photos much easier.

Instant Share

With Samsung Share Pix, the Pixon12 lets users easily upload images and videos to popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, MySpace, Photobucket, Friendster – a breeze. Add to that, the phone’s high-connectivity functions including Wi-Fi and HSUPA capabilities mean that user’s photos can be shared to their friends in no time.

The Samsung Pixon12 will be available from end of June in European countries and it wil be expanded to other regions in August.

While most the specs of the Pixon12 won’t differ from the previous mode, Here’s what else it has to offer -

• Xenon and LED flashes
• 720 x 480 pixel video recording at 30fps
• offering a 28mm wide-angle lens
• tracking Touch Auto Focus
• Smart Auto mode for adjusting the light to ambiance
• Wi-Fi (woo hoo!)and 3G support
• GPS with A-GPS support and Geo-Tagging
• Face detection
• and a 3.1-inch AMOLED display with a 10000:1 contrast

Though the M8800 Pixon was still a good handset ,  it just got a whole lot better with this upgrade.

The M8190 should be out in Europe this month and hopefully it’ll get here a little bit later. Let’s hope we don’t have to wait too long.

These days 8.0 megapixel has become the new standard for competetion among the mobile manufacturers. We’ve yet to see the 8MP Samsung Innov8 to hit store shelves and here’s yet another one coming out of Samsung’s door — Pixon M8800.

The new Samsung M8800 Pixon is another high-end camera phone Launched by samsung. It features some of the most cutting edge technology you can see in today’s mobile phones.

Its arsenal of amazing features includes a powerful 8.0 mega pixel built in auto focus camera with LED flash capabilities and lens protection. This mobile phone also has an amazing 3.2-inch LCD touch screen display that can match the awesome photos that its camera can take.

Yet another phone that’s more like a camera. The Samsung Pixon’s 8 megapixel camera can do 16x digital zoom with dual-power LED Flash, Advance Shake Reduction, Face , Smile Shot, Face Tagging, Geo-Tagging, Auto Panorama Shot. It can record video up to 720×480 pixels at 30 fps, QVGA at 120 fps MPEG4/DivX and Xvid).

Also has 3G/HSDPA (up to 7.2 Mbps) connectivity in a 3.2 inch display (240×400), 5.1 channel virtual surround sound, FM radio with RDS, Bluetooth and TV-Out.

 The Samsung M8800 Pixon is equipped with geo-tagging, auto-panorama shot, face, digital image stabilization, smile and blink detection. These are some of the features that make the Samsung M8800 a contender for the best camera phone in the market today. The photographs taken on the phone can be edited and users can even make a photo memo by scribbling on the photos. The phone also facilitates easy mobile blogging. For scrolling through images, flick control may have been one thing, but the Pixon takers it to a whole new level with what I’m calling ‘tilt-to-scroll’. It also has video recording capability and TV output for both PAL and NTSC systems.

It also has many features useful to treat it as a business phone. It has TV out functionality that allows users to plug into a TV and view the contents of the phone. Data storage capacity of 200 MB makes it the perfect device to store personal files and data.It is also very slim in comparison to another 8.0 megpixel mobile phones in the market today.

“Samsung Pixon is made for users who want to experience the best multimedia entertainment on their mobile phone with the ease of a touch. Right from enjoying music and videos on the 8.1cm wide full touch screen, to high quality image and video capturing, to sharing them with their friends and family, Samsung Pixon offers consumers the real benefit of mobile entertainment,” said Sunil Dutt, Country Head, Samsung Telecom Division.

Samsung Pixon is also ideal for enthusiastic gamers as it comes pre-embedded with a host of popular games like Brain Challenge, Diamond Twister and Millionaire-3. Apart from these, users can also enjoy the motion-sensor based game – Tumbling Dice.

Specifications of Samsung Pixon m8800

• Quad-band GSM, tri-band HSDPA
• 107.9×54.6×14.9mm, 110 g
•  A 3.2-inch WQVGA (240 x 400 pixels) touchscreen featuring Samsung’s TouchWiz UI with auto screen rotation
• 8 megapixel camera with LED flash, auto focus, face recognition with smile detection and blink detection, WDR (wide dynamic range), ASR (advanced shake reduction), GPS geotagging, ISO 1600,WVGA (720×480 pixels) and VGA (640 x 480 pixels) @30fps video recording
•  Built-in GPS receiver
•  3G (HSDPA), GPRS/EDGE
•  Accelerometer
•  DivX, Xvid, mp4 file support
•  FM radio with RDS
•  Music Player with SRS 3D surround sound
•  microSD card slot
•  Bluetooth with A2DP and USB 2.0 (micro)
•  Landscape virtual QWERTY keyboard
•  Handwriting recognition
•  ShoZu integration – direct image and video upload
• Office document viewer

 Indian price of Samsung Pixon

The SAMSUNG Pixon official price in Indian market is Rs. 28,750 which is almost Rs. 20,000 less than the INNOV8. Some unverified reports say that you can grab this phone at an approx. price of Rs. 21000 to 23000 in some exchange offers.

Samung i900 Omnia

Samung i900 Omnia is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and packed with MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel, and Word). Omnia has 3.2-inch Wide QVGA touch screen, which supports 240 x 400 pixels and fully packed with features. Samsung i900 Omnia comes packed with a 5 megapixel auto focus camera, which has features like face and smile detection and auto-panorama shot.

Translated from Latin, the name of Samsung’s new model means “everything” and its main purpose is to fully satisfy the needs of the modern cell phone user. This is a phone with a unique combination of characteristics such as 5-megapixel camera, large touch display and GPS, taking advantage of the Windows Mobile 6.1 platform. In addition, this is the first device with a built-in support of not only DivX, but XviD video. The logical question, Can it cook?” comes to mind…

The package includes:

• Samsung OMNIA

  

  Samsung Omnia i900

• Handsfree (including 2 sets of additional ear plugs) and 3.5mm adapter
• Data cable
• Charger
• Stylus
• Software CD
• User’s manual

Design:

Nowadays, the design is everything. Even a very good product would quickly be forgotten if it doesn’t come in a shiny package. Luckily, OMNIA is well prepared in this aspect. It is one of the most attractive Windows Mobile devices.

The display is 3.2 inch one, which makes it comparable to the famous iPhone. Unfortunately, resolution wise, it is behind the leaders. We think that WVGA would suit it much better, compared to the 240х400 it has now. Nevertheless, the screen offers good image quality, but we have a few remarks regarding the colors, which have a light yellow hue. It is almost impossible to use it in direct sunlight, which is a big drawback. We have nothing to say about the sensitivity, even though Apple’s baby is still far ahead. Every touch is accompanied by a gentle vibration, no matter if you have activated any function and often, that could mislead you if you have tapped the wrong place. In addition, you have an extremely fashionable stylus at your disposal, which could be easily replaced by any object.

The rest of the hardware buttons are on the right side. All of them have a decent size and are easily felt once pressed, which makes them user-friendly. On top of that, they have multiple functions. When held, the button for entering the main menu activates the Task switcher. By using the key for turning the volume up, you can switch on the zoom, no matter which menu you are in. Pressing the camera “trigger” one time leads to the gallery. Even though it is not revolutionary, we have to congratulate Samsung for the realization of the idea. Multifunctionality is the way!

The opposite side houses the strap “hook” for accessories (in our case stylus, but if you are a fan of Snoop Dogg – big purple dice) and the charger connector. To our regret, the last one is not a standard miniUSB, which is more popular since it is used in various electronic devices and could, for example, save you the purchase of a separate cable for the phone and for the camera. On top, we have the small and hard to press power button, accompanied by the one for hardware restart, which is accessible only with a stylus.

Samsung i900 Omnia

Despite OMNIA’s beautiful appearance, we don’t think that’s its most attractive asset. For an all-in-one device, the user-friendly interface and the rich multimedia functionality are of more importance.

The phone comes with a huge 16GB memory similar to the iPhone and on top of that, you also have the option of using a microSD card for increasing the memory further. Then, there is the quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support, combined with HSDPA 7.2Mbps. Omnia also features built-in accelerometer, which allows the UI to rotate automatically and follow the handset’s current orientation.

With Omnia you get Windows Live pre-installed and also get Push Hotmail. Omnia  comes with Outlook and a fully functional Office Suite on the device, so that you can access, read, edit word documents, excel worksheets, power points.

• Network: quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE + HSDPA 7.2Mbps
• Dimension: 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm, Weight: 127g 
  

  samsung i900 Omnia

   

• Wireless: stereo Bluetooth (A2DP), WiFi
• Display: 3.2-inch WQVGA (240×400 pixels) touch screen
• Camera: 5 megapixels with auto-focus, featuring face and smile detection as well as auto-panorama shots
• OS/UI: Windows Mobile 6.1 with Samsung’s widget-friendly TouchWiz user interface running on top of it
• CPU: Marvell 624MHz
• Other: built-in GPS, accelerometer for auto-rotation, optical mouse
• Two models will be sold: 8GB and 16GB, that can further be expanded with microSD memory cards

Omnia should be a great phone to own and use, but we are not sure about the price. Omnia could definitely give iPhone a competition especially for the fact that iPhone is over priced in India. If you are planning to buy a touch screen smart phone, Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA is also in the way and is expected in India by October which features a full fledged QWERTY key pad as well.

Update: Price of Omnia-24GB for 37,999 and 32GB 39,999.