By Allen Tsai | Thu May 08, 2008 6:14 am |
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.
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
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