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Samsung Shows GSM+CDMA Phone

06 Nov, 2006, 6:18 pm IST | Aalaap Ghag | Mobile phones

Dual-mode phones have now got the entire country talking after UTStarcom and Yulong demo'd their GSM+CDMA phones at Mobile Asia 2006. Not to be left out of the discussion, Samsung has also come forward with their SCH-W579 dual-mode phone that does tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900) and CDMA (800/1900) both.

The unusual looking phone comes with a QVGA (240x320) 256k color touch-screen display, with a stylus for text input and handwriting recognition as well. On the outside, it has a 96x80 64k color display.

It has a 2-megapixel digital camera, 20 MB built-in memory with a memory card slot as well. Slashphone doesn't say what kind of a slot, but I'm guessing TransFlash/microSD.

The phone also has an OCR feature to read text off business card pictures taken with the camera, an MP3/AAC music player and Picsel for reading Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Bluetooth and Infrared.

As of now, this is only going to be available on China Unicom, but with the dual-mode hysteria brewing up, Samsung should really bring this to India. Please! Both my phones are Samsungs and I'd love to have just one!

Read more on IT168 via Slashphone.

Tags: Samsung , SCH-W279 , Dual Mode , CDMA , GSM

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