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Samsung have announced the new Samsung SCH-B450 ‘free-folder’ phone. The SCH-B450 is another of Samsung’s high-end technological marvels that certainly has the wow factor. The first thing that grabs your eye is the form factor of the phone. The term ‘free folder’ coomes from the 180 degree swivelling design, which lets you use the phone in clamshell form, or swivel it round to play games. But it’s not just the form factor that’s impressive – in typical Samsung form, the SCH-B450 is packed to the gills with features.

More details and pictures of the Samsung SCH-B450 after the jump.

Mobile TV is being trialled in earnest at the World Cup with a variety of vendors trying out different solutions and technologies to see which works best in a live setting, and what needs to be done to improve the experience. According to Juno Yoshida of EETimes, though, an awful lot still needs to be done if Mobile TV is even to approach an entertaining experience.

LG have announced two new mobile TV phones, the LG-KB1500 and LG-LB1500. Both phones support Korea’s preferred DMB mobile TV standard, are 19.6mm thick and weigh 120g.

LG has announced the new LG 890 Muse Video phone. Sporting 3G and Tri-band GSM support, the LG 890 focuses firmly on video, offering a specially designed ‘TV Menu’ key for quick access to 3 Hong Kong’s Live TV Channel, including the i-CABLE News, i-CABLE Finance and i-CABLE Entertainment News channels, Main Roads Live Traffic, Horse Racing Live, Bloomberg TV, the Phoenix Live InfoNews Channel and MATV.

The Nokia N92 is Nokia’s first mobile TV phone, and is a technological tour de force. Two megapixel camera, FM radio, MP3 player, 3G, 16 million colour screen, up to 2GB storage, and WiFi are just some of the features that have been crammed into the N92’s 107 x 58 x 25 mm dimensions.

Read the complete Nokia N92 review to see just how amazing this phone really is.

Virgin Mobile will become the first operator in Europe to launch a Mobile TV service this year. The service will be based on DAB rather than the mobile TV formats pushed by the handset manufacturers (principally Nokia’s DVB-H, which is set to become the European standard). Users of the service will be able to watch mobile TV on Virgin’s new mobile TV phone, the Trilogy, which was developed for the operator by BT, TTP and HTC.

Read more about Virgin Mobile’s Mobile TV phone and service after the jump.

[Source: Slashphone]

New Korean phones always raise a stir, as the technology packed inside them is normally a good 18 months ahead of, well, everywhere else! Recently, however, an increasing number of Korean phones are making their way outside of Korea, and heading to Europe. Glorious! Continuing this trend is LG, who announced at 3GSM that the LG V9000 mobile TV phone with marvellous swivelling form factor will be heading to Europe later in 2006. And, just like Samsung, they’re keeping their options open with regards to the mobile TV technology to use. The LG V9000 uses them all (T-DMB, Media FLO, and DVB-H, though not simultaneously).