Seems like every time we turn around, Samsung is crowing that it's just released the slimmest phone ever. First we had the SGH-T509 (which, at 9.8mm, seems a bit portly these days), then came the X820, measuring a whispy 6.9mm thick (or about a third of an inch). That sounds pretty slim to us, but apparently Samsung's decided to go for broke with the U100, a candy bar with a razor-thin 5.9mm profile.
The scrawny new handset lacks the 3G of another recently announced Sammy slim phone, the HSDPA-enabled SGH-a727, but the U100 comes right back with its 3-megapixel camera, doubling the resolution of the A727's 1.3-megapixel snapper. The tri-band GSM/EDGE phone also comes with a media player (MP3/AAC/WMA and MPEG4/H.263), Bluetooth, USB 2.0, a document viewer and 70MB of internal memomry. Not bad, but it looks like Samsung had to sacrifice something on the altar of thin: in this case, memory expansion.
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Samsung SGH-T509
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Score: 77% When: May 2006 - $200 Carrier: T-Mobile
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Thin is in: Samsung’s new, flyweight candybar phone is a mere 9.8 mm thick. Can its dazzling looks make up for some so-so features? Ben Patterson reviews the SGH-T509.
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Samsung SGH-X820
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When: September 2006 Worth: $325
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Besting its own record, Samsung's SGH-X820 measures a mere 6.9 mm yet manages to pack a landscape high-resolution screen, 2 Megapixel camera, EDGE, stereo Bluetooth audio, TV out and more.
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