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You’d expect Samsung’s response to the iPhone to be one of bravado, huffily claiming that their phones are much better than Apple’s. But you wouldn’t expect them to roll out a camera that beats the iPhone for features!

Enter the new Samsung VLUU i70 – a 7.2 megapixel camera phone with 15x optical zoom that comes complete with HSDPA connectivity and a raft of other features…but, er, no ability to make phone calls!

Samsung have announced more new phones today than I can possibly blog about. So to help you navigate through their maze of product announcements, here’s a brief overview, some links, press release cuttings, and images.

Mobile TV

Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., (Samsung) today affirmed its global leadership in the burgeoning mobile TV category by demonstrating several “world’s firsts” among its line-up of nine handsets crossing multiple mobile broadcasting platforms – Satellite DMB (S-DMB), Terrestrial DMB (T-DMB), Media FLO and DVB-H. These various mobile broadcasting standards will bring large-volume multimedia, television and radio content direct to consumers via their mobile handset.

Samsung also will demonstrate for the first time a handset developed for Qualcomm’s MediaFLO mobile broadcasting platform. Beyond its wireless multimedia content capabilities, the handset’s two megapixel camera with integrated flash allows users to capture still images and video, which can then be viewed on the phone’s 262,000-color TFT display, shared with friends via a high-speed data connection or stored on a microSD card in the phone’s external memory slot. Samsung’s iconic swivel screen design will allow users to view streaming video or multicast packet data in landscape mode, further enhancing the multimedia experience.

Links:

• MobileMentalism’s take on the new Samsung SPH-B4100 mobile TV phone
• Samsung’s press release

Much more news, images, links of Samsung’s CES 2006 announcements after the jump.