Samsung Intros the B5702 Dual-Sim Phone

Samsung is joining the race to release the killer mobile phone that supports dual-sim operation as it announced the new B5702 dual-standby mobile phone. The Samsung B5702 support quad-band connectivity, hence earning it the title of being the world’s first mobile phone to support global coverage with the said connectivity.

The Samsung B5702 allows you to operate two SIM cards simulataneously and combined with its quad-band connectivity allows you to have a genuine global coverage. To make it easier for you to use the dual-sim capability of the B5702, Samsung has provided two LED lights that indicates which SIM card is receiving calls or messages. To make it even more fun, you can personalized each of the SIM card with respective themes, melodies, and screensavers. This would help you easily identify which SIM is in use. And finally to make it easier for you to use each SIM, the B5702 has dedicated hot keys for each of the SIMS located on the side of the phone. Thus, eliminating the usual process of rebooting the phone to change SIM.

Other features of the Samsung B5702 include full mobile web browsing support for both SIM cards, various multimedia functionality including audio player, video recording, a 3MP camera and an FM RDS radio. The Samsung B5702 also features a 2.4-inch TFT lcd , document viewer, USB 2.0, Bluetooth, 50MB internal memory, 8GB external memory, up to 11.4 hours of talk time and 220.9 hours of standbytime. The Samsung B5702 is a Quad band (850/900/1800/1900) EDGE Class phone.

The Samsung B5702 sports a slim and elegant design with a compact size and refined metal finish. It will be released sometime in May 2009 in various international markets.

Sony Ericsson Announces the new Walkman Phone, W205

Aside from the S312 which Sony Ericsson just announced, another phone up for release soon is the basic Walkman phone W205. Probably realizing that everyone is feeling the grunt of the economic recession including mobile phone user, Sony Ericsson made the W205 more accessible to the users. The W205 has the many great features of a Sony Ericsson phone without hurting their budget that much.The Sony Ericsson W205 lets you enjoy your MP3 songs as well as your favorite radio station with its Walkman player, FM Radio and TrackID music recognition feature. It’s a slider phone that lets you set up music playlist that you can listen to various occasions. It also lets you share music with friends through a speakerphone.

The W205’s TrackID function is also a good feature especially for naming tune and artist that you don’t know of. The phone also lets you record a fraction of mp3 songs to use as a ringtone.

But aside from being a Walkman phone, the Sony Ericsson W205 also boasts of other mobile phone features including a 1.3 megapixel camera with 2.2x digital zoom and video recording function, which is decent enough to produce good quality pictures and videos.

You can also use the phone for mobile browsing through WAP 2.0 via the preloaded Opera Mini browser. Other features of the Sony Ericsson W205 include MMS/SMS/, support for various mobile phone downloads, and Bluetooth.

The Sony Ericsson W205 is GSM/GPRS/900/1800 and W205a supports GSM/GPRS 850/1900 phone available in Ambiant Black. It is slated for a Q2 release.