Samsung Making Us Japanese

Samsung, the South Korean cell phone maker, is trying to mold the world into the image of Japanese mobile users. They released several phones today, introducing, among a two other brilliant models, its Ultra Edition II. I’m afraid these days, in order to make their profit targets, cellphone manufacturers have to come up with better-featured, faster and slimmer products. It’s no secret that the Koreans and the Japanese are the best wireless customers in the world. Three Ultra II models is slated for a Q1 rel ease. In a week or two, we’ll have the U600 (10.9 mm thick) and the U700 (12.1 mm thick), which are slider phones, a clamshell with metallic casing , the U300 (9.6 mm thick), and a candybar, the U100, currently the slimmest phone in the world at 5.9 mm. Multimedia models F520 F510 and F700, which curiously sound like fighter planes, will arrive in installments starting with the F510, which looks like the F500 but with added DMB-H for digital TV broadcasts in Europe. More interesting is the F520, a dual slider with QWERTY keyboard for that mini laptop experience, HSDPA for true broadband wireless connectivity and a 3 MP camera. Rounding up Samsung’s bid for mobile competitiveness is the Samsung i520, which is a 17.9 mm-thick smartphone operating on Symbian OS Version 9.2 (S60 3 rd Edition Feature Package spec 1). The i520 is HSDPA connected and features a touch-sensitive keypad for convenient UI navigation. A regular keypad slides out from the the bottom.