T-Mobile USA, Inc., today announced the availability of the Nokia 6301 and Samsung SGH-t339, the newest additions to the growing lineup of phones that support T-Mobile HotSpot @HomeSM service, which provides unlimited, nationwide calling over any accessible Wi-Fi connection in addition to great in-home coverage.

The Nokia 6301 and Samsung t339 bring two stylish phone options to the expanding T-Mobile HotSpot @Home family. The groundbreaking wireless service was first introduced a year ago with two handset options. Now T-Mobile customers can choose from eight HotSpot-enabled phones, including three smartphones and a variety of Nokia and Samsung phones.

With a stunning red finish and a thin flip form factor, the Samsung t339 provides the right balance of style and technology. This Wi-Fi-enabled phone is outfitted with stereo Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera with video capture, a music player and instant messaging capability.

The Nokia 6301 and Samsung t339 will be available beginning June 23, 2008.

Sprint has announced pricing for the Samsung Instinct, a new wireless touch-screen handset from Samsung. When the device launches on June 20, it will cost just $129.99 with a two-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate.

In order for customers to experience the full capabilities of the device, Instinct must be activated on a pricing plan offering unlimited data. Customers can choose from Everything plans for individuals starting at just $69.99 per month for 450 voice minutes or Talk/Message/Data Share plans for families starting at $129.99 per month for 1500 voice minutes to share between two lines.

Instinct complements Sprint's signature Simply Everything Plan offering both unlimited nationwide voice and data services for just $99.99 per month. The Simply Everything Plan offers premium services, including GPS navigation, email, web surfing, Sprint Music Premier and Sprint TV Premier, while letting customers easily budget for phone expenses.

Instinct was recently named "Best in Show" in the third annual Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Award competition in April at CTIA Wireless 2008.

• Ultra-slim 12.5mm design
• 3.2-inch WQVGA (240 x 400 px) touch screen from Synaptics
• QWERTY keyboard
• Trackpad
• 5.0-megapixel CMOS camera with auto-focus with facial and smile detection and auto-panorama shot
• Image stabilizer
• 8 or 16GB memory - Expandable microSD memory card
• FM tuner and GPS reception withGeo-tagging

Virgin Mobile USA today launched the Slash by Samsung, the company's first wireless handset developed with global consumer electronics powerhouse, Samsung Mobile.

Retailing at just $79.99, Slash is a slim slider phone with a sleek and compact profile. It comes equipped with a VGA camera, Bluetooth wireless technology, and full messaging capabilities (IM, text messaging and email).

Slash by Samsung includes such must-have features as an integrated speakerphone and voice-activated dialing, and boasts a bright color display and lots of storage.

The phone can hold up to 499 contact entries, with up to five phone numbers, two email addresses and one website per individual. Slash is also outfitted with preloaded and customizable Autotext for fast and easy text messaging.

Games such as Gameloft Jukebox and Superscape Demo come preloaded on the handset.

Sprint and Samsung Electronics Corporation Ltd. announced today that a new broadband wireless network offering the speed and mobility of WiMAX has met Sprint's rigorous commercial acceptance criteria including overall performance, handoff performance and handoff delay.

This key technical milestone has been passed after extensive evaluation both in the XOHM lab environment and with the commercial service network being built in the Baltimore and Washington D.C. area. Sprint plans on launching commercial WiMAX service in those cities later this year.

Samsung has been working with Sprint in the United States to test and build Sprint's XOHM mobile broadband Internet service compliant to the mobile WiMAX standard. Since finalizing a supply agreement in 2007, the two companies have steadily made progress on the extensive project with previous key milestones including first data session in the lab (June 2007), first data session on the live network (October 2007) and successful interoperability testing with multiple other device vendors (April 2008).

Verizon Wireless and Samsung Telecommunications America announced that the Samsung Glyde will be available on May 9, 2008, online and in Verizon Stores from coast to coast, including those in Circuit City.

The Glyde is a powerful and sleek multimedia and messaging phone that boasts a robust feature-set packaged in a compact, touch-screen device with a full QWERTY keyboard.

The Glyde features a 2.8” advanced touch-screen that offers a tactile response and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard that provides customers with an easy way to send text and instant messages.

This multimedia device comes equipped with a full lineup of Verizon Wireless’ hottest services including V CAST Music and Video. With V CAST Music, customers have access to more than 3 million songs from well-known and independent artists that can be purchased and downloaded directly over-the-air to the Glyde. V CAST Video gives customers access to content from the best names in 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.

The Samsung Slash is coming soon to Virgin Mobile USA (see website).  The new slider handset features a camera phone, Bluetooth, full color screen, mobile web, speakerphone, and voice dialing. 

The handset is 3.8” X 1.8" X 0.7" inches and weighs 3 oz. Stuff for download include real music (MP3) ringtones, chat park, and games.

The Samsung Slash also comes with Virgin Mobile USA's Sugar Mama service which is a service that allows you to earn free minutes by watching short online spots, rate them, and give your feedback.

For every minute of your time, you get a minute of airtime. Or, fill out short surveys about brands, products, and services. Get 5 minutes of airtime for completing a 5-minute survey.

Visit http://www.virginmobileusa.com/stuff/sugarmama.do to find out more about Sugar Mama.

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the Open Screen Project, supported by a group of industry leaders, including ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless.

The project is dedicated to driving rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics. Also supporting the Open Screen Project are leading content providers, including BBC, MTV Networks, and NBC Universal, who want to reliably deliver rich Web and video experiences live and on-demand across a variety of devices.

The Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment -taking advantage of Adobe Flash Player and, in the future, Adobe AIR -that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and devices, including phones, mobile Internet devices (MIDs), and set top boxes.

Think touch screen cell phones are cool?  Well it seems Samsung wants to take things to the next level by allowing users to "gesture" to their cell phones with hand signals.  Now that's cool! 

According to the patent filing abstract:

"A handheld gesture recognition control apparatus and its method are provided for a mobile phone. The input method of the present invention includes collecting a plurality of images; storing the images as control images; mapping the control images to corresponding control commands; capturing an image taken by a camera as a current image; comparing the current image to the control images; selecting one of the control images as a target control image according to a comparison result; extracting a control command mapped to the target control image; and executing the control command."

Garmin International Inc. announced today that select Samsung mobile phones will have the benefit of Garmin’s intuitive turn-by-turn, voice-prompted navigation directly on the phone. Samsung Mobile Navigator by Garmin is based on the popular Garmin Mobile XT navigation software, and Samsung phones with this navigation capability are expected to be available in Europe and other parts of the world in several months.

Garmin will display the Samsung i780 and other examples of its mobile phone navigation solutions April 1-3, 2008, at the CTIA Wireless trade show in Las Vegas.

Marketed in major European countries, the Samsung i780 has a sleek design packed with the latest in business and consumer features including global positioning system (GPS) navigation, fast HSDPA and EDGE connectivity, Bluetooth, 802.11b and g wireless capabilities, full touch screen with stylus, QWERTY key pad, Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional operating system, 2.0-megapixel camera and front camera for video calls. The i780 also delivers full Internet browsing, MP3 music and FM radio.

Samsung has announced The Soul.  It’s the completion of the Samsung's renowned Ultra Edition line of handsets. Continuing in the line of the Ultra Edition's minimalistic, slim design, the Soul has a full metal body with a premium finish and 12.9mm-thin form factor.

Beautiful and functional, the Soul enhances usability for the user with features that adapt to the user depending on the application. With Magical Touch by DaCP, navigation indicators on the keypad of the phone change according to the user's needs, making navigation of the menus simple and intuitive. The Soul is also equipped with a 5-megapixel camera with face detection, image stabilizer and Wide Dynamic Range (WDR), as well as a new series of graphic interfaces that provide three different options for users.

Designed to operate on the new AWS spectrum band, the tri-band Samsung MyShot and Samsung Spex also operate on the PCS and cellular bands, enabling them to work in all existing Cricket wireless markets stretching from California to New York. These new phones will also work in new Cricket markets slated to begin launching this year including Oklahoma City, Okla. and Las Vegas, Nev.

The Samsung MyShot's built-in 1.3 mega pixel camera features a self-timer, multi-shot capabilities and more. Using the phones integrated Bluetooth wireless technology, users can easily share photos and contacts with others, and coupled with its voice recognition capability, easily place calls from their contact list.

Samsung has launched the Anycall Haptic which looks like a thinner version of Apple's iPhone, however, it adds a new dimension to the touch interface.

The Haptic was been launched in South Korea and has a large touch-screen display that also provides haptic feedback, which is information transmitted via the sense of touch, when using certain functions on the device. For example, when the volume of the radio is changed, the phone simulates both the sound and feel of the "clicks" on an old-style volume knob on a real radio.  The Haptic comes with 22 kinds of vibration in total built into the phone.

The Anycall Haptic has a 3.2-inch widescreen display, a 2-megapixel digital camera, full Internet browser, Bluetooth 2.0 and terrestrial digital TV reception. It cost US$700 to $800 in South Korea. Samsung hasn’t announced if it might be available elsewhere.

The Haptic is the second new handset launched in South Korea that plays on the sense of touch. LG Electronics' LG-SH240 has a layer of silicon over the front of the phone to give it a little elasticity and make it feel to users like they're touching human skin.