Samsung announced the launch of 'Soul', Samsung's new flagship product for 2008. Soul will officially make its debut during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Samsung named 'Soul' to honor the completion of its exclusive 'Ultra Edition' series of handsets which offer this perfect balance of design and features.

Soul is the ultimate essence of mobile; a slim, lightweight and stylish product yet still boasting all the essential functions in one single device. This product, a sleek combination of highly styled design and functionality, is a triumph of extreme opposite values, 'Portability' and 'Multi-function'.

With Magical Touch by DaCP, navigation indicators on the keypad of the phone change according to the user’s needs, making navigation of the menus simple, intuitive and direct. The navigation panel’s icons change according to function.

Soul also offers a new series of graphic user interfaces (GUI) providing three different options for users. With this Thematic UI, users can change the UI according to their personal tastes. Additionally, users can create their own skins with the on-handset User Created Skin (UCS) setup. Display skins are customizable with various options such as background images, fonts and colors.

At only 12.9mm thin, it is also equipped with professional photographic functions including a 5 megapixel camera. Features such as face detection, image stabilizer and Wide Dynamic Range (WDR), which are very up-to-date features even in today’s digital cameras, are also equipped in Soul.

Users can enjoy super-fast Internet access through the 7.2 Mbps High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) browser and share images or video taken with the phone. Soul is also perfect for music listeners with features such as Music library navigation, digital power amplifier by ICEpower technology by Bang & Olufsen ICEpower.