Samsung Drops a Bomb

Samsung Drops a Bomb: "Samsung opened CES with a splash by introducing two dozen new phones in a flurry of press releases, and they're doozies - the nation's first 5-megapixel camera phone, the world's first speech-to-text dictation phone, and a much-awaited EVDO (Evolution Data Only) high-speed phone are among them.

The one phone we know will be coming to a U.S. carrier is the SCH-A890, a CDMA EVDO phone for Verizon's high-speed network. The A890 boasts a 1.3-megapixel camera with flash, color internal and external displays, training-free voice dialing, video-on-demand, and of course, the 500?800 Kbps speed of Verizon's EVDO network. No word quite yet on whether you can use the phone as a modem for your laptop.

Sprint's SPH-A800 will be the U.S.'s first 2-megapixel camera phone, according to Samsung. It's a compact, slider-style phone with a 320x240 display, a photo flash, a removable TransFlash memory card and 'business card scanning,' which we find as strange as you do. "


By Sascha Segan