Samsung unveils slider phones

NEW DELHI: Samsung has unveiled two slider phones, J800 Luxe and L870 at the recently held Singapore Telecommunications Exhibition 2008. Samsung J800 Luxe First up is the Samsung J800 Luxe. Measuring 15mm, a 2.2 inch, the phone comes with slider form, TFT display with a resolution of 176 x 220 pixels and 256K colors. Featuring a 2 megapixel camera, the phone supports photo blog which allows image uploading to blogs over 3G. Among key features, the phone packs FM radio with RDS, Bluetooth with an A2DP profile, music and video player, external memory support via microSD cards, HTML browser, POP3/IMAP4 mail client, RSS reader, built-in document viewer and tri-band HSPDA. Also, the company’s mobile tracker is also part of the Luxe’s make-up. Samsung L870 The second slider, L870 runs on a Symbian operating system. At just 13.5mm, the phone comes with a 3 megapixel auto-focus camera. It has a 2.4-inch TFT display with QVGA resolution and 16 million colours. Samsung L870 also offers tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDG with HSDPA support, but doesn’t support WiFi. Other features include FM radio, Bluetooth, USB, 100MB internal memory and microSD expansion slot.