14 DAY TRIAL // Together with the Soul handsets, the G810 flagship slider or the i780 Windows Mobile smartphone, Samsung also showcases at CeBIT 2008 in Hanover, Germany (4 - 9 March), its Serenata music phone and the 5 Megapixel G600. Although the devices don't have much in common, they both offer high-end features, so we thought "why not present their live pics in one single article?". And here we are, doing what we thought of.
Samsung Serenata, made in collaboration with Bang & Olufsen, is the kind of phone that you either love or hate, due to its unusual form factor. The handset presents itself as a stylish hybrid between a personal music player and a mobile phone, and features a dedicated music wheel, 4GB of internal memory, integrated music player with MP3, AAC and WMA support and, of course, Bang & Olufsen high-quality sound. Furthermore, we have a 2.26 inch TFT touchscreen with 256K colors and 240 x 240 pixels, 3G connectivity, email and Internet capabilities, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and USB 2.0.
Samsung Serenata measures 109.5 x 63 x 19.7 millimeters, weighs 136 grams and packs a standard Li-Ion battery that should provide about 3 hours of talk-time and up to 280 hours of stand-by time. The phone is not yet available globally, but you should know that it will come with a pretty hefty retail price of at least 1,500 USD.
Although Samsung G600 has been around for some while (released in the second half of 2007), it's far from being considered outdated. The high-end slider won the "Phone of the Year" title in 2007, so it should be among the best phones that you can get at this time. Among the highlights of G600 we have a 5 Megapixel camera with auto focus, flash, image stabilizer and video (VGA) recording, a 2.2 inch, 240 x 320 pixels TFT display, Media Player, Stereo FM radio, TV out, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, USB 2.0, e-mail capabilities, NetFront 3.4 browser, PictBridge and BT Printing, Java MIDP 2.0 and microSD card support.
Weighing 104 grams and measuring 101 x 47.8 x 14.9 millimeters, Samsung G600 comes with a Li-Ion 880 mAh battery to provide about 3.5 hours of talk-time and up to 300 hours of stand-by time.
Below you have live images with Samsung Serenata and Samsung G600. Enjoy!
Live report by Bogdan Popa and Cosmin Vasile from CeBIT 2008 Hanover, Germany.
