Verizon Wireless today announced that the Samsung Glyde will be available on May 9. The Glyde is a multimedia and messaging phone that offers a compact, touch-screen device with a full QWERTY keyboard.

Samsung Glyde (U940) More Photos Read Review View Specs

The Glyde integrates a 2.8-inch touch-screen with tactile response and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It comes equipped with Verizon Wireless' services such as VCAST Music and Video. With VCAST Music, users can access more than 3 million songs that can be purchased and downloaded to the Glyde. VCAST Video gives customers access to news, sports and entertainment. Other features include a 2.0-megapixel camera with flash, microSD card slot, which supports up to 8 GB of external memory, and Bluetooth stereo headset support.

Additional features of the Glyde include:

- HTML browser with touch navigation
- 2.0-megapixel camera and camcorder with flash and zoom, brightness adjustment, self-time (off, three, five or 10 seconds), color effects (normal, black and white, sketch, antique, negative, green and aqua), multi-shot mode (series and divided) and resolution adjustment (1600 x 1200 px, 1280 x 960 px, 1024 x 768 px, 640 x 480 px, 320 x 240 px and 176 x 144 px)
- VZ Navigator capability - get visual and audible directions to thousands of destinations, locate businesses and other points of interest, get maps of a location, and share directions with others
- Music Player for MP3, WMA, and unprotected AAC and AAC+ files
- Bluetooth - supports headset, handsfree car kits, serial port, dial-up networking, advanced audio distribution (stereo), phone book access, object push for vCard, basic imaging for sending / printing non-protected images to a compatible device and basic print
- Instant Messaging using AIM, MSN and Yahoo!
- Bilingual user interface: English and Spanish
- Personal organizer with calendar, calculator, notepad, currency converter, alarm clock, world time and stop watch

The Glyde will be available for $249.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.

- Samsung Glyde (U940) Specs

1. Posted by kellypoo	Sun May 11, 2008 10:01 pm
I can't get the bluetooth to stay connected with my Audi A4. Is anyone else having problems with this? Any suggestions?
2. Posted by mxpxillini35	Sun May 18, 2008 1:56 pm
Will (does) the glyde have the capability to use wi-fi if a miniSD wifi card is inserted into the phone?
3. Posted by McGirk	Mon May 19, 2008 9:00 am
Allen, is it ok for you to be posting Samsung pics and specs, they really have a hissy fit and call the lawyers if you don't.
4. Posted by getLitnow	Mon May 19, 2008 11:01 am
hehe The Samsung AstroGlyde >.>
5. Posted by McGirk	Tue May 20, 2008 9:06 am
THAT IS FUNNY!
6. Posted by Rob5	Wed May 28, 2008 12:49 pm
Wow, it really does sound great. Thanks for posting this I'll have to look into it. I already have their wireless service through computer but this sounds even better.
7. Posted by McGirk	Fri May 30, 2008 9:55 am
Nyet, avoid Samsung, unless you like to be sued.
8. Posted by over35mom	Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:12 pm
I've had the Glyde for about a week now and am NOT happy w/it at all. No matter what level I put the sensitivity at I still have to tap tap tap to get where I want to go. Called today to change to the Dare. I hope I'm happier w/that. If not going to the ENV2 that my daughter has. Husband has the Voyager and I dont want to be grabbing the wrong phone all them time like we did with the Nextels.
9. Posted by MrVerizon	Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:31 pm
The Glyde is horrible but Im stuck with it.
10. Posted by MrVerizon	Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:26 pm
Update: Im not stuck with it, just got the Dare today. Allowed me to exchange without the box. People keep your boxes.

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