Samsung Eternity II and Samsung Flight II Announced for AT&T

The U.S. carrier AT&T and Samsung Mobile, have just announced the availability of two featurephones, tagged as quick messaging devices, the Samsung Eternity II and the Samsung Flight II. Both devices should be available this month exclusively from AT&T retail stores.

Samsung Eternity II comes with a 3.0-inch touchscreen, great for watching AT&T Mobile TV, three scrolling home screens and drag-and-drop widgets. The device is stuffed with enhanced social networking with services such as AT&T Social Net, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.

The featurephone also includes an interesting application called PicDial, that makes the phone's address book socially aware, allowing users to see full screen Facebook and MySpace profile pictures and status messages of contacts on their mobile phone during every call. The Eternity II is also compatible with AT&T Mobile TV service, which requires a $9.99 fee per month.

It seems that the carrier offers customers for a limited time unlimited access to programming from select major networks included for no additional fee. Other features include: Full HTML browser, Smart Gestures, Enhanced GPS functionality, Bluetooth v2.1+ EDR, 2.0-Megapixel camera, expandable memory up to 32GB.

Samsung Flight II is yet another messaging device, that includes a touchscreen and an horizontal slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The Flight II comes with a complete multimedia package, which includes a music player, 2-Megapixel camera and expandable memory up to 16GB.

Samsung Flight II also include: Enhanced social networking with PicDial, Star Tweets and WHERE, Full HTML browser, AT&T Music, AT&T Address Book, AT&T Navigator (separate subscription required), AT&T Video Share and Mobile Video, Bluetooth v2.1+ EDR, expandable memory up to 16GB.

Both phones feature tri-band 3G connectivity and quad-band GSM technology. While Flight II is available now exclusively at Radio Shack retail locations, the Eternity II will be available on August 15 at AT&T retail locations nationwide.