Verizon Wireless today announced the expansion of its QWERTY phone portfolio, by introducing the TouchWIZ-enabled Samsung Rogue and the entry-level Samsung Intensity. The former will serve as the flagship phone for the company's new data pricing option, which aims to give customers more freedom to select how much data and the type of data they want to use.
Samsung Rogue customers who want to check e-mail, surf the Web, and download applications, games or ringtones will be able to select either a 25MB data for $10/month option or a 75MB data for $20/month option to couple with their Nationwide plan.
Customers who want to watch full-length TV shows plus news, sports, weather and live entertainment video clips can also add the new V Cast Video on Demand plan that gives access to unlimited basic video clips, ESPN MVP and unlimited megabytes for their V Cast Video usage for $10/month. The new V Cast Video on Demand plan replaces the $15 V Cast VPak. These changes will not impact existing customers.
We'll post a full review of the Samsung Rogue TouchWIZ phone soon, which sports a 3.1-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen, slide-out QWERTY thumbboard, Full HTML Web browser, 3-megapixel camera and a microSD slot supporting up to 16GB cards. Additionally, the handset offers one-touch access to social networking sites via shortcut widgets, a file viewer for viewing Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF documents, as well as three pre-loaded games of unusual significance ("Need For Speed Undercover", "Resident Evil: Degeneration" and "Tetris and Dice"). Check out the full specs here.
The Samsung Intensity (full specs) is a entry-level QWERTY-slider of the SMS and IM-oriented kind. The phone will sport a 2.1-inch screen, QWERTY keypad with dedicated Messaging key and Favorites key, 1.3-megapixel camera and a microSD slot supporting up to 16GB cards. It's also worth noting that this is a 1xRTT phone with a screen resolution of 176 by 220 pixels (A.K.A a GPRS phone in the GSM world).
The Samsung Rogue and Samsung Intensity are available immediately, selling for $200 and $80 before rebates, respectively. Mail-in rebates of $100 and $50, respectively, are given when signing up for a qualifying plan.
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