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Samsung have a new touchscreen phone in the works in the shape fo the Samsung S8000 Cubic. It’s called the Cubic because it comes with a fancy new user interface that features a 3D cube that you slide around to reach different apps on different sides of the cube – similar in operation to the LG Arena.

The S8000 doesn’t look all that different from your average touchscreen phone, but looks can be deceiving, and the specs of the S8000 Cubic, which have just been leaked, show it to be quite a capable smartphone.

More details of the Samsung S8000 Cubic 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…

Samsung’s latest top-end camera-phone, the Samsung Tocco Ultra, is now available to buy. The Tocco Ultra is an 8 megapixel camera phone with a glorious 2.8″ AMOLED screen that’s one of the best on the market. The screen is completely touch-based, as well, and works well with Samsung’s new user interface.

If you don’t like the touchscreen, though, the Tocco Ultra also comes with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Naturally, it also comes with aGPS, Bluetooth 2.0, HSDPA and Samsung’s haptic feedback interface.

It’s a great looking phone, and you can buy it now for free.

Samsung have launched a revolutionary phone at MWC 2009 in the shape of the Samsung Omnia HD. As you can probably guess from the title, the OmniaHD is all about High Def – literally, 720p High Def video viewing. You might wonder whether you’d notice the difference on a screen so small, but apparently you can, helped in part by the fact that the screen’s quality is fantastic.

The screen itself is a 3.7″ monster, with AMOLED display technology, 16:9 ratio and a 360 x 640 pixel. It’s this that helps the OmniaHD produce such startlingly good pictures. Well, the screen and also the display chip inside it that can genuinely display HD video.

The OmniaHD will also record at 720p HD as well at 24 frames per second, making it the first mobile phone with HD video recording and playback in the world!

If only that were all, though, but no, Samsung decided to throw pretty much every feature known to man in the OmniaHD – check out the features list after the jump.

Samsung have announced that they’ll be releasing the Samsung I7410 projector phone in Europe later in 2009. The I7410 is a feature phone with 5 megapixel camera, OLED touchscreen display, and, best of all, a pico projector that’s capable of projecting the phone’s screen onto a wall at up to 50″ in size.

Pico projector technology has been in the R&D labs for some time now, but with heavyweights such as Samsung preparing to release phones with the projectors built-in, it seems the technology is about to take off.

[Source: Cellular-News]

Samsung have gone all green – well, blue – on us, with the announcement of the Samsung Blue Earth solar powered phone. Designed to look like a pebble, apparently, with a deep blue hue representative of the Earth’s oceans, the Bue Earth is the first eco-friendly phone that really does come with some strong eco credentials.

The most obvious of these is the solar panel on the back, which apparently draws enough power from the sun to ensure you can make a call at all times (though I challenge the thing to work round about now in the gloomy deep winter of the UK where we haven’t seen the sun since June 23rd!).

That’s not all, though…

Samsung have officially announced the Samsung Ultra Touch S8300 mobile phone just in time for the MWC 2009 event next week. The Ultra Touch was leaked a few weeks ago, but the company has now officially released the full details of this new top-end phone. Like LG, Samsung are making a big deal of the Ultra Touch’s user interface. Despite being completely touch based, we won’t know whether it’s good enough to take on the iPhone until they show it off for the first time at MWC 2009 next week.

Even if the user interface isn’t all that great, though, the specs alone make the Ultra Touch a phone to look forward to.

More details after the jump.

Samsung seems to be leaking like a rusty bucket at the moment, as yet another Samsung mobile is leaked before MWC. This time, it’s the turn of the Samsung Acme i8910, a good looking touchscreen phone that comes paced to the gills with multimedia features.

Unlike the 8 other low end phones that were leaked earlier this week, the Acme i8910 seems to offer some genuine innovation. With the i8910, the Samsung S8300 and rumours of a 12 megapixel camera phone in the works, Samsung looks set for an exciting MWC event after all!

More details and pictures of the Samsung Acme i8910 after the jump.

Samsung have announced that their first Google Android powered mobile phone will be released later in 2009. Samsung were one of the first members of Google’s Open Handset Alliance, and have been rumoured to be working on an Android-based handset for some time.

Today sees official confirmation of the development of such a handset, with a Samsung spokesperson saying “We are accelerating the development process for Google phone in order to meet the specific need of local carriers.” The new Android phone will be sold through T-Mobile and Sprint, and will feature a touchscreen (naturally) and the usual plethora of Google apps (Maps, G-Talk messenger, GMail, search and calendar).

Time for a Nokia 5800 review, I think.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone has been eagerly awaited, as it’s been touted as Nokia’s first real iPhone-killer. Sporting a fancy new touchscreen user interface, the Nokia 5800, also known as the Nokia Tube before its release, is a mid-range phone that’s designed purely for fun and media while offering a similar user interface experience to the iPhone.

Better still, it comes with Nokia’s Comes With Music service, which lets you download an unlimited number of tunes from its music store for an annual subscription.

So with good looks, a promising user interface and some nifty features, all from a phone that won’t break the bank, the Nokia 5800 looks very promising indeed. Read on for the full Nokia 5800 review to find out if it lives up to its hype.