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The Samsung Armani M7500 Night Effect designer phone has just been announced at pretty much the same time it’s going on sale!

Samsung’s latest designer phone goes on sale tomorrow, and offers a breath of fresh air from designer phones of the past year or so, almost all of which have been touchscreen phones.

Instead, the Night Effect is a candybar phone with typical sleekly black Samsung lines coupled with an Armani logo emblazoned across the centre of the phone, on its side and on its back.

Leaked pictures have emerged of a new camera phone from Samsung. Currently called the Samsung Memoir, the new phone will feature an 8 megapixel camera, Omnia-style touchscreen, and the TouchWiz user interface found in the Omnia and the Samsung Tocco.

Other details are scarce, unfortunately, but apparently it’s destined for the US, among other places, although on T-Mobile – sorry about that!

[Source: TMONews, via Engadget]

If you thought camera phones were old hat, think again. Samsung has announced that its shifted 10 million 5 megapixel+ camera phones so far this year, and expects to ship 13 million by the year’s end.

Gartner, meanwhile,has forecasted that 110 million 5 megapixel+ camera phones will ship globally next year, ramping up to 330 million by 2011.

Part of this is obviously to do with the fact that a high quality camera phone is desirable in its right, but it’s also due to the decreasing cost of developing such phones. In 2007, for example, 5 megapixel+ camera phones were extremely expensive high-end affairs, with the Nokia N95 leading the way. In 2008, 5 megapixels has reached the high mid-range market, with 8 megapixels becoming the norm for the top-end phones.

Time for a Samsung F400 review. The Samsung F400 is a music phone that combines the best bits of the Apple iPod with the luxurious sound qualities of a Band and Olufsen speaker system. Samsung realised they didn’t have the brand power to compete with Sony Ericsson’s Walkman range (or the Apple iPhone, for that matter), and so they’ve been using Bang and Olufsen’s musical wizzardry in their phones for some time now.

With the F400, they’ve included B&O speakers and a B&O ICEpower amp, as well as an iPod-esque music wheel. Add all the other bells and whistles you’d expect from a Samsung phone, and the Samsung F400 has the makings of a cracking music phone.

Let’s see how good it is with our Samsung F400 review, after the jump.

I thought it was about time I did a Samsung Pixon review, as I missed the initial announcement of this monster 8 megapixel cameraphone, and the Pixon looks like it could become the most advanced camera phone on the market. As you’d expect from a top-end Samsung cameraphone, the Samsung Pixon has a huge range of features, some of them straight from a dedicated digital camera.

Samsung are serious about the Pixon. They see it as a genuine challenger to Sony Ericsson’s CyberShot brand of camera phones, and so are using all their digital camera experience to create a new range of high end camera phones based on the Pixon brand.

But enough of the background. What about the phone? Read on for initial Samsung Pixon M8800 review.

When I first picked up my Samsung Tocco review unit, I was a little skeptical about it. The Tocco is a touchscreen phone, you see, and I couldn’t help but think that it was yet another touchscreen phone that was launched in response to the iPhone, but which didn’t actually work all that well.

A poorly implemented touchscreen phone is little short of a disaster. They’re so slow an inaccurate, they make the entire phone almost unusable.

Fortunately, my misgivings with the Tocco proved entirely unfounded. It’s a super-slim feature-packed touchscreen designer phone from Samsung that’s well put together and a lot of fun to use.

Samsung announced the Samsung Omnia i900 just ahead of the Apple iPhone 3G launch, which was a bold move by the company given the level of hype surrounding the iPhone.

It was even bolder when you consider that the Omnia is being pitched as a direct iPhone rival; yes, not just any old touchscreen phone, but what many are considering to be a touchscreen phone that’s actually better than the iPhone in many ways.

Whether that’s the case or not, we won’t know until Samsung actually launches the Omnia, but fortunately we won’t have too long to late. According to my sources, it should be released either next week or the week after, and I’m hopefully going to be getting my hands on it some weeks after that.

In the meantime, read on for more details and pictures of the Samsung Omnia i900.

Nokia may not have the high ground of mobile phone technology for long, if Samsung has any say in the matter. This rather traditional looking slider phone is the superb new Samsung INNOV8 i8510, an S60 smartphone with features that’ll make the Nokia N95 or N96 blush.

Not content with the 5 megapixels of the Nokia powerhouses, the INNOV8 i8510 features a huge 8 megapixel camera as well as a stunning 2.9″ 16 million colour QVGA screen and a barrel load of multimedia features that sister-site MediaMentalism explores in greater detail.

Find out what’s inside the Samsung INNOV8 i8510 after the jump.

We’ve got our hands on an early video review of the new Samsung F480 Tocco touchscreen mobile phone. Thanks to Sam Chan and his wonderful reviews for MobileBurn, you can see the glorious new F480 in full action and see for yourself whether it really is the new iPhone killer that everyone’s talking about. Or, if you want, you can just read about it below!

More details, full specs, pictures and the video review of the Samsung F480 Tocco after the jump.

Just as Apple fanboys are being whipped into hysteria over the iPhone 2 with an expected announcement at 6pm this evening at the Apple WWDC Developers Conference, Samsung comes along and dumps all over their party with the announcement of the Samsung i900 Omnia.

Now Samsung announcing a new phone is nothing new; indeed, the Korean manufacturer has so many phones in its line-up it seemingly announces one every day.

But the Samsung i900 Omnia is different from the rest. With a 3.2″ haptic touchscreen interface, 7.2Mbps HSDPA connectivity, built-in GPS and Wi-Fi, and a gloriously updated touchscreen interface, it’s nothing less than Samsung’s very own iPhone 2 challenger.

Has it got what it takes to take on the latest Apple Jesus-phone? Find out after the jump…