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Samsung are getting ready to release the Samsung SHW-M100S, a new Android 2.1 phone with quite possibly the best screen of any phone ever made.

The phone itself has the usual array of great features – 5 megapixel camera, 720p HD recording, DivX playback, GPS, 800MHz CPU – everything you’d need in a high-end superphone really (I must stop calling them that!)

But by far the biggest attraction must be the screen.

See the pics after the jump to see why.

Samsung are another company with a thin presence at CES 2010, but they are at least there and have been showing off the Samsung W9600. This little beauty isn’t a smarpthone and certainly isn’t a superphone, but it does have one neat trick up it’s sleeve – a built-in projector.

Now projector phones aren’t new, but the technology is clearly getting smaller and better. The W9600 no longer looks an unholy fusion of phone and pico projector (as they’re called) it just looks like a phone.

You can beam anything from the phone onto a suitable surface (i.e. a wall). Not just pics, but even the phone’s user interface.

More pics of the Samsung W9600 after the jump.

Here’s something you don’t see every day – a mobile phone modelled on a classic cigarette lighter! The Pantech DuPont phone shares the same design as the classic lighter from S.T. DuPont. For those of you oblivious to DuPont’s lighter, it’s the old metal one with the big chunky flip top.

Pantech’s new phone emulates this part of the DuPont lighter with its own flip top, which, disappointingly, doesn’t reveal a flame, but instead reveals the lens of a 3 megapixel camera. It does at least make the same “cling sound” as the DuPont lighter, although whether this is real or an electronic sample, we’re not sure.

More pics after the jump.

Although Samsung release high-end feature-rich phones in the West, they’ve got nothing on the phone the company releases in its native South Korea. Take this phone, for example, the Samsung Haptic 8MP. As you’d probably guess, it features an 8 megapixel camera and a touch-screen with haptic feedback. Nothing new there – the Samsung Pixon and Samsung Tocco Ultra both offer the same, and they’re on sale across Europe right now.

But the Haptic8MP offers a little bit more, as South Koreans are a little more demanding when ti comes to their tech…

LG released the Cookie as a budget touchscreen phone a few months ago. However, although extremely usable and actually rather good for a low-end phone, its low budget price meant it was short of features. Presumably thinking the same thing, LG has decided to beef it up a bit, and have come up with this: the LG Cooky, which is, to all intents and purposes, a Cookie on steroids!

More pics after the jump.

Samsung have been showing off their new Samsung Style Report phone at this year’s Korea Electronics Show (KES 2008). The oddly-named Style Report is a dual screen phone with a difference. Rather than having a full-sized internal screen and a smaller external one, the Style Report has two equally sized screens.

Samsung have done this as they’ve recognized that some of a phone’s features work better on an external screen, while others are more suitable for the internal screen, but that both screens should be of equal size to get the most out of these features.

Samsung have announced the awkwardly-named Samsung Anycall Haptic 2, which is, in many respects, the Samsung Tocco version 2. Featuring a haptic touchscreen (hence the name, I guess!), it features an updated user interface with 50 new widgets.

The user interface is also fully customizable and lets users create their own menu on the desktop – another sign that the iPhone and now Android are having a big impact on the mobile phone market.

Smasung have announced a new camera phone that sports a 5 megapixel camera and a 3x optical zoom. Nothing particularly innovative about that, you might think. The forthcoming Sony Ericsson C905 will be an 8 megapixel camera phone and camera phones with 3x optical zooms have been around for a while now.

However, although optical zoom is far better than digital zoom, it doesn’t appear on that many phones. The reason (apart from cost) is size – whenever you zoom out, the lens of your camera moves out of the main body of the phone or camera in which it’s situated, and all the gubbins required to do this adds significantly to the device’s bulk. This is not what mobile phone manufacturers want, particularly when thin is most definitely in with mobile phones these days. Just take a look at one of Samsung’s earlier attempts at a high-end camera phone with super-zooming lens. Not exactly what you’d call slim (or subtle, for that matter!)

So Samsung’s latst phone, the Samsung W480, features what it calls an ‘inner zoom’ feature. Rather than the lens of the phone moving outwards, away from the phone’s body, the lens actually remains fixed in place, and the zooming happens internally. By magic. I think!

Obviously, this being a Samsung phone, you get all manner of other technological goodies to play with as well. Read on after the jump for more details.

Samsung have released a new touchscreen phone that seems strangely familiar. The new Samsung AnyCall Haptic is a sleek looking device with a huge 3.2″ touchscreen that features a widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio for optimal multimedia viewing. It also features a nifty new user interface as you can see from the pics, but it all looks, well…like an iPhone!

LG have been showing off their new LG LH2300 smartphone. Part phone, part Internet tablet, the LH2300 comes packed with some serious features, as you’d expect. It’s most obvious claim to fame is the huge 3 inch touchscreen, featuring a glorious 800 x 480 pixel widescreen VGA resolution that makes browsing the Web on your mobile seem just as good as it does on your desktop (well, according to LG it does, anyway!)

The LG LH2300 also comes with mobile TV (T-DMB), Bluetooth 2.0 and a 3 megpixel camera complete with face recognition. More intriguingly, it may, or may not, come with one of those fancy projected keyboard jobbies…