Mobile Media Review

Features of the Samsung F480 include:

• 5 megapixel camera with face detection autofocus, image stabiliser, 4x digital zoom and LED flash
• Video recorder & 3G video calling
• Display: TFT, 240 x 320 pixels (2.8 inches), 262,144 colours
• Music player (MP3/WMA/AAC+/AAC+(e)/Real formats) plus FM radio
• Music Recognition (Shazam)
• 72-voice polyphonic ringtones / MP3 ringtones
• Speakerphone
• Voice memo recorder
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, email
• Document viewer
• Java games
• Memory: 240 Mbytes plus microSD memory card slot (up to 8 Gbytes)
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0
• Internet: WAP 2.0, web browser with Google search, GPRS, Edge, 3G (HSDPA 7.2 Mbps)
• Triband (900/1800/1900 MHz) plus 3G (UMTS 2.1GHz)
• Offline mode
• Size: 98 x 55 x 11.6 mm
• Weight: 106g
• Talktime: 3 hours
• Battery standby: 250 hours

Samsung Electronics has reported its 4Q financial results. Revenue grew by 3% to 15.69 trillion Won against the previous quarter. Net income for the quarter was 2.35 trillion Won, a 7% increase over the previous quarter.

Samsung sold 32 million mobile phones, a record high on the quarterly basis. The performance resulted from the popularity of the Ultra Edition series. Thus annual unit sales reached 118 million, surpassing the target figures.

In 2007 Samsung will strengthen its high-end line-up with 30 WCDMA phones and specialty phones that focus on music, video and messaging functions.

Samsung Electronics has officially announced its new audio player K3. We mentioned the device late in November, however there was little info about it. Taking into account design, Samsung K3 looks like Samsung K5, but without the part with stereo speakers.

Samsung positions the new product as its slimmest MP3-player at the moment – 6.8 mm. The player is equipped with a 1.8” OLED display. In addition to music functionality the device can display JPEG pictures and run slideshows. As for the music, the payer supports MP3, WMA, DRM10 formats. There is an FM-tuner.

On a single charge the player lasts for 25 hours in music mode. It is available with 2, 4 and 8 GB flash ROM onboard. The release is set for March.