Samsung launches social media-friendly Corby (S3650)

Damian Koh | Sep 01, 2009

This just out.

The Corby is Samsung's latest budget touchscreen handset which will be available across Europe this month at 150 euros. Targeted at teeny boppers, the funky, pop color-styled phone runs on the TouchWiz platform and includes support for various social-networking widgets such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa and Photobucket. From the pictures, it appears the FaceBook widget lets you post/read status updates, as well as receive notifications of messages, friend requests and pokes instead of being merely a Web link on previous touchscreen devices running on the same platform.

Corby will also have a new Cartoon user interface which, from the horse's mouth, is a stylish graphical menu and wallpaper that morphs according to the phone's functionality. The interchangeable back covers come in a variety of shades including yellow, white, orange and pink. The company says more colors and designs will be available in the future. The Corby is a quad-band GSM phone with a 2-megapixel camera, 2.8-inch QVGA TFT touchscreen, microSD card slot and Bluetooth connectivity. It will be available Q4 in Asia.

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vin8tan says...
Very colorful ! So yummy ! If this works like synergie on the webOS on palm pre, then it is really a social media centric phone. If not its a candy styled phone with new widgets, which honestly... isn't too impressive.

Sep 03, 2009 00:56