Corby smartphone is child's play for Samsung

by Stevie Smith - Sep 2 2009, 16:15

Aiming squarely at adolescent technology fans with easy access to their parents’ well-worn purse strings, consumer electronics specialist Samsung has today unveiled the bright and colourful Corby smartphone.

Emerging from Samsung’s production line with incredibly scant fanfare, the upcoming Corby (S3650) is set to arrive later this month as a cheaper iteration of more advanced, feature rich – and significantly more costly – smartphone devices.

Samsung is hoping to tempt “today’s young mobile users” with the Corby, which will come equipped with a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen display and a core focus on popular social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.

Accented with a variety of fun and “cool” colours (rear facing), such as Jamaican Yellow, Cupid Pink, Minimal White and Festival Orange, the Corby handset’s performance will also rely on quad-band connectivity and EDGE.

Other contributing features include a modest 2.0 mega pixel camera, Bluetooth 2.1, an onboard MP3 player, an FM radio, the NetFront 3.5 Web browser, and an onboard microSD slot for memory expansion.

Sadly the Corby will not come with Wi-Fi, high-speed 3G, or a physical/virtual QWERTY keyboard. However, its European pricing of just €125 Euro (SIM-free) may well paper over those particular deficiencies. Maybe.

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