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Samsung Monte is Iron Man

Evan Selleck — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:45:50 +0000

Looks like Samsung wants to get in on the goodness that is Iron Man 2, and hey, we don’t blame them. When you’ve got an advertising cash cow as the high-flying superhero, why wouldn’t you want to jump on board? Sure, they might’ve gone to a bit of an extreme with this one, but we imagine that considering its dashing good looks, that the Samsung Monte, Iron Man Edition, may just get picked up.

While we’ve shown you the Samsung Monte in the past, this one takes its cues obviously from the Iron Man franchise. The color scheme of the device doesn’t actually seem to match anything, but, we won’t hold that against them. So, what’s different? Nothing, really. The Samsung Monte Iron Man Edition is the same exact phone, physically. The only difference is the MicroSD card preloaded inside, which has the original Iron Man movie already on board. So, you can watch it anywhere you go, whenever you see fit.

The Samsung Monte features a 3-inch WQVGA LCD capacitive touchscreen, and has a 3.2MP camera on the back. It’s your standard touch-based feature phone, but includes things like GPS, WiFi, and Bluetooth for good measure. It’s also featuring Samsung’s TouchWiz User Interface, but no surprise there. There’s a limited amount of the devices, and it goes on sale on May 1st, so if you’re interested, you may want to wake up early.

[via Pocket-Lint]

One-of-a-Kind HTC Touch charity editions up for auction

Chris Davies — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:11:00 +0000

If you’ve been thinking about picking up an HTC Touch but have held off because the design is just too sober, think again: the company has collaborated with Nicholas designer Nic Wong to create four limited editions of the smartphone. Ranging from the subtle (a powder-blue Anaglypta-style design) to the strident (crazed red and white triangles), each handset is unique as in one-of-a-kind. All proceeds from the four sales – which are taking place on eBay - will go to the Children’s Cancer Foundation.

Now for the bad news: if you’re not in Singapore, forget about bidding. Sadly HTC are only willing to ship to addresses there, so if you fancy a unique Touch in your own country you’ll have to pester them to come to a similar arrangement wherever it is you live. Still, I wonder if the eventual buyers can write off the cost as a charitable donation?

With the auctions ending on April 19th, as of writing the bids are just kicking off: the cheapest is at 1.05 Singapore dollars ($0.78) while the highest bid is 151 Singapore dollars ($111.49).

[via Pocket PC Thoughts]

T-Mobile Sidekick Slide in Fire Red Edition

Kim Poh Liaw — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:05:04 +0000

According to BGR, the T-Mobile Sidekick Slide will be done in fire red skin design. The Sidekick Slide will be released for T-Mobile subscribers coming late May or early June.

The handset features Danger’s application software, which includes push e-mail, full HTML Web browsing, instant messaging, mobile phone, calendar, address book and media player, as well as a consistently updated content catalog. Additional benefits of Danger’s service include always-on internet connection, automatic data back-up, and ongoing feature and user-experience improvements. Users also have the option to access their data and applications from any Web-enabled computer.

Source [BGR]