3GSM 2004
Samsung showed off a number of new models for the first time at 3GSM, including a slide-style model and a the first auto-open clamshell for Europe.
The SGH-D410 is Samsung's new slide-style phone. The display is large and high-resolution, with 176 x 220 pixels and 262,000 colors. The slide design allows for such a large display without compromising overall size.
The slide design is spring-loaded, so with a quick flick of the thumb, the phone "pops" open or closed. It feels solid and the spring works quite well.
The next phone is the SGH-E600, a truly tiny new camera phone. I'm not positive, but would guess this is the smallest GSM VGA camera phone in the world.
Up next is the SGH-D100. There's not much to it feature-wise, but it does sport an OLED outer display and extremely slick syling.
One of the most interesting new phones is the SGH-P510. What makes this phone unique is the auto-open feature. You simply hold the button on the right side for about one second, and the phone opens, press it again and it closes. It's very slick.
I was exteremely impressed with how well the auto-open mechanism worked. It opens and closes quickly, smoothly, and silently. Even better is that you can still open and close it manually, without difficulty and without damaging the mechanism. I'm not sure how useful it is, but it's definitely nifty.
Finally, the SGH-i505 was on display, which will be released as the SGH-i500 in Europe. Like the SPH-i500 CDMA version, it's very small and pocketable - if not more so. The best part, though, is the twisting display; when it's folded with the display facing out, it essentially assumes a standard PDA form factor.
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