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Samsung has released in the U.S. a slim phone enabled with the HSDPA technology. Samsung announced Monday the 11.8 mm thick BlackJack mobile phone will be sold through the U.S.¡¯s largest wireless carrier Cingular Wireless. As the first phone to hit the U.S. market that combines HSDPA and smartphone technology, it expects brisk sales.
The phone is capable of data transfers of up to 1.8 Mpbs five times faster than existing WCDMA, which will come in handy for users in downloading multimedia content such as videos and music files, the firm said in a press release. It has the Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone edition operating system and a 2.3 inch QVGA LCD screen, a 1.3 megapixel camera, a camcorder, MP3 player, external memory, a file viewer, Bluetooth connectivity, and mobile printing.
Ahead of the release, Samsung shipped an HSDPA Music Phone (SGH-A707) and the folder-style Blackberry phone (SGH-T719) as part of its plan to conquer the premium cell phone market in the U.S.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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