We had brought you a recent post about MetroPCS’ Samsung Finesse touchscreen smartphone(click here for original post). This handheld was shown at the ongoing CTIA Wireless 2009 event at Las Vegas. The handset is definitely desirable, though slightly slow on the OS end. The Finesse is available immediately from MetroPCS for $349 off-contract.

Take a look at the video below.

Samsung today announced its new “TouchWiz Connected Mobile Applications”, a unique platform for “rich connected mobile application” widgets that will be designed to run on Samsung’s lineup of TouchWiz touchscreen phones. With this application, both developers and end users will be able create new widgets for the platform. Tools for professional developers will be made available through the Eclipse IDE.

Samsung will also offer developers the opportunity to sell these third-party applications via a new Samsung Rich Connected Application storefront. Yahoo, Google and AccuWeather.com have already jumped in to launch widgets for the platform. Apart from this, Samsung plans to start a web-based tool that will allow end users to create their own widgets based on user-specific RSS feeds, and possibly even other custom content.

Source: PhoneScoop

One very huge banner of Samsung on the front of the CTIA Wireless 2009 convention center reveals an unannounced Samsung touchscreen phone. We might be wrong, but this photograph very closely resembles the rumored M810, which is a successor of the Samsung Instinct.

The only difference here seems to be that the M810 appears more rounded and less angular than the Instinct. The company has smartly camouflaged the carrier logo on the banner, but wild rumor-mongers insist that the M810 is slated for Sprint. The color scheme on the interface also somehow seems to suggest Sprint……..What do you say?

Source: PhoneScoop

Today, Samsung revealed its SCH-r810 Finesse, a brand new touch phone, bound for MetroPCS. This wonderful phone has quad-band 850/1700/1900 MHz CDMA 1x for data.

The Finesse also employs Samsung’s latest TouchWiz user interface complete with widgets, and includes a full HTML web browser, 2 megapixel camera with flash and video capture, Bluetooth, GPS and microSD cards up to 16GB. The price has been set at $350, though availability has yet to be confirmed.

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Source: PhoneScoop