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Samsung will soon be making SCH-W890 clamshell phone for SK Telecom official. The phone isn’t that exciting except for the fact that it has support for both satellite and terrestrial DMBs for South Korean mobile TV viewers. Apart from that, you’ll find a 2.8-inch 16M TFT screen (WQVGA), 2MP camera, front facing camera for video [...]

 
Samsung’s Omnia II variants for South Korea are about to get a WinMo 6.5 update soon. According to Yonhapnews, T*Omnia II and SHOW Omnia meant for SKT and KT respectively will get the free upgrade this month and will be at par with OZ Omnia that is already selling with WinMo 6.5.
To regurgitate, these [...]

 
Samsung has got its impending Application Store to its domestic market. But unlike the European launch, Samsung’s Store in South Korea will be a part of SK Telecom’s App Store. It’s scheduled to go live tomorrow and will operate as a ‘Shop inside a Shop’.
There won’t be a vast collection of apps initially [...]

 
UPDATE: Take it as pure speculation but the M510 could be Vodafone H1 in SKT’s garb since the claimed specs match exactly with H1.
Samsung has confirmed to launch the first LiMo compliant handset in their home market by the end of this year. The SCH-M510 will be released by SK Telecom making it the [...]

 
In an attempt to thwart iPhone’s possible penetration in South Korea, SKT plans to release an Android phone. SKT is reportedly in talks with Samsung (and LG) to provide them with an Android device running the v2.0 Eclair update. SKT reckons Android-powered phones provide better data processing than iPhone.
“We are gauging the timing of the [...]

 
Koreans only wanting to enjoy live television on their phones and don’t care much about other features can go for the recently announced W920 from Samsung. The 12.9mm thick phone is equipped with S-DMB, 3000 phonebook memory, 3MP camera, front facing camera for video calling, SOS, music player, Bluetooth, e-dictionary and pre-installed TOEIC/TOEFL tests.
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Except for unlocked, most of us would find Omnia devices being sold on a single operator. However, in its home market, Samsung has for the first time, mass released different Omnia devices for different operators. SKT will sell T*Omnia II (M710/M715) and Omnia Pop (M720), KT will sell SHOW Omnia (M8400) and Omnia Pop (M7200) [...]

 
Samsung officially announced SCH-B900 phone from its Haptic series. The phone becomes the 10th model in the Haptic family and boasts CHAK (whatever that means) written on the battery cover. As for the internal specs, it’s a decently spec’d phone with 3-inch TFT touchscreen with TouchWiz UI, GPS, Geo tagging, T-DMB, Bluetooth, music player, 3MP [...]

 
UPDATE: Samsung AMOLED 12M (SCH-W880) announced in Korea.
Seems Samsung wants to pitch its upcoming SCH-W880 as a potent substitute for point-and-shoot digital camera. A tipster notified about this yesterday clearly indicating that W880 has more selling points than its high-resolution camera sensor and optical zoom. The phone’s camera features include, 12 megapixel resolution support, mode [...]

 
UPDATE: Samsung AMOLED 12M (SCH-W880) announced in Korea.
The first picture of the presumed Pixon12 successor was leaked in June and now we’ve got another one albeit a Korean version. The phone will supposedly arrive on SKT as SCH-W880. As for now, other details are not known but it’s good to see high-resolution mobile cameras with [...]