Samsung and AT&T today announced a couple new feature phones for AT&T's Winter lineup, including the Samsung Mythic, a new phone for AT&T's Mobile TV service from FLO. Both the new Samsung Mythic and Samsung Flight will be available this Sunday, November 8, from AT&T. That same day, AT&T will be dropping the price of their AT&T Mobile TV service to $10 per month for all new and existing subscribers.
Samsung Mythic is touchscreen cell phone and idiot box in one
 The new Samsung Mythic is a tablet-style phone, but just because it isn't running a true smartphone OS doesn't mean it's not a capable device. The Mythic will still get Samsung's ubiquitous TouchWIZ interface, which we're seeing on everything from inexpensive phones like the Samsung Highlight on AT&T to the upcoming Android-based Samsung Behold II, which our sources claim will be coming to T-Mobile on November 18. The Samsung Mythic falls somewhere in between, though it does get support for AT&T's Mobile TV service from FLO. We hadn't seen many Mobile TV phones for a while, but suddenly this season the two major FLO carriers have stepped up their game, with the Mythic on AT&T and the HTC Imagio appearing on Verizon Wireless earlier this fall. To spur interest in the higher-quality mobile broadcast service, AT&T is also cutting the price to $10 per month, though we'd honestly rather see more channels and more selection than a meager price cut.
The Samsung Mythic uses a 3.3-inch touchscreen to control the phone. The interface will feature gestures for One-finger Touch and Finger Zoom. Around back, the Samsung Mythic uses a 3.2-megapixel camera, though auto focus isn't on the spec list for this one. The phone uses GPS for turn-by-turn navigation, and AT&T Navigator will be supplying the directions for the device. There's no Wi-Fi on board, though users will be able to surf AT&T's 3G network.
The Samsung Mythic will be available for $250 on November 8. AT&T is giving a $50 mail-in rebate for this phone when signing up for a qualifying plan.
Samsung Flight is QWERTY and touch rolled together
 Exhausting every permutation of feature phone design, Samsung is also releasing the new Samsung Flight, a full-QWERTY slider phone reminiscent of the Samsung Propel (though not so much the Samsung Propel Pro smartphone). The Samsung Flight will use the touchscreen up top for one-touch shortcuts to the phone's features, and users can slide out the keys for messaging and typing. The phone will use AT&T's Social Net for social networking, a feature we kind of liked on the Samsung Solstice. Otherwise, it's a fairly simple device.
The Samsung Flight gets a basic, 2-megapixel camera for shooting tasks. There's a full HTML browser on board for Web browsing. The phone uses GPS for navigation, with AT&T Navigator supplying the route and points-of-interest along the way. In addition, the Samsung Flight will get most of the basic AT&T 3G services lineup, including AT&T's Mobile Music and the one-way Video Share, which is sort of like a one-sided teleconferencing app.
The Samsung Flight will be available in AT&T stores this Sunday, November 8. The phone will cost $150 with a contract agreement, but AT&T will send you a $50 AT&T Promotion Card as a mail-in rebate.
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