[ Samsung J800 Luxe ]

Samsung J800 Luxe name sounds a bit misleading as there is nothing luxurious about the handset. The Samsung J800 Luxe is a mid-range slider with the thickness of 15mm and a 2.2-inch 256K TFT display with 176 x 220 pixels resolution.

Samsung J800 Luxe sports a 2 megapixel camera (no autofocus), features photo blog function, which allows direct image upload to blogs (over the 3G connection).

Other features include music and video player, FM radio with RDS, and stereo Bluetooth (A2DP). The slot for microSD cards compensates the scarce 18MB built-in memory.
Built-in office document viewer, HTML browser, POP3/IMAP4 mail client, RSS reader and Mobile Tracker complete the set of functions of Samsung J800 Luxe. The tri-band phone also relies on the UMTS (2100 MHz) for fast data transfers.

No pricing and availability info yet.

[ Samsung L700 ]

The Samsung L700 is the second new midrange handset presented in Singapore, comes in candybar form factor and is relatively thin, only 12.8mm at the waistlne. The quad-band Samsung L700 also offers UMTS support.

Samsung L700 has an average 2.1-inch 256K TFT display with 128 x 160 pixels resolution. The 2 megapixel camera without autofocus is the other downside of the phone.

The multimedia features the traditional Samsung music/video player, FM radio with RDS and again stereo Bluetooth. The built-in memory of 30MB can be further expanded with microSD cards. As in J800 Luxe, the Samsung L700 also has a POP3/IMAP4 email client, HTML browser and an office document viewer.

The Samsung L700 will be released in silver, pink, and gold variations. No word on the pricing and the availability.

[ Samsung L870 ]

The Samsung L870 was initially announced on May 28th. Despite its rather Soul-like looks, the Samsung L870 does not belong to the Soul lineup.

Samsung L870 is powered by the same Symbian OS and user interface as all Nokia N-series smartphones. Samsung L870 is only 13.5mm in thickness and has a 3 megapixel autofocus-camera and a 2.4-inch 16M color TFT display with QVGA resolution.

The Samsung L870 has tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support plus HSDPA 3.6Mbps for fast wireless data transfers. No Wi-Fi unfotunately. Samsung L870 will also host FM radio and Bluetooth and USB connectivity. The internal memory is 100MB and the memory card slot can take a microSD card with a capacity of up to 4GB.

The Samsung L870 will be available in Europe this August 2008. Pricing is yet unknown.

[Source: GsmArena.com.]