Cell phone manufacturer Samsung will launch its own open mobile platform and make a software development kit (SDK) available in December. The new platform will be called Bada OS which means “ocean” in Korean and is supposed to convey the limitless variety of potential applications which can be created using the new platform and to allude to a commitment to a variety of open platforms in the mobile industry. The official website www.bada.com opened today and features a range of information on Bada OS including updates on product launches, features, and event notices.

Samsung will launch two new dual SIM mobile phones in Europe in December. The touch screen dual SIM phone Samsung B5722 measures 104 x 54.9 x 14.4 millimeters and comes with a 2.8 inch screen with 320 x 240 pixels resolution and 262,144 colors. Both SIM cards inside the device can be used for phone calls, SMS or MMS messaging, email and mobile internet access via GPRS or EDGE without rebooting the phone. One of the two SIM cards can be used to make phone calls on GSM networks of 850, 900, 1,800 and 1,900 MHz, the second SIM card just in GSM networks of 900 and 1,800 MHz.

Samsung Corby S3650 is a new cell phone for users of mobile internet and social networking services such as Twitter, Facebook, MaySpace, Flickr, Picasa or Youtube. Supposedly, it is younger people who use such online services and often they want to do this on the road and they are short for money. With the Samsung Corby S3650, there is a cell phone for these young people for a comparatively small price. In Germany, the Samsung Corby S3650 will be available at stores for less than 200 euros. At IFA 2009 in Berlin I had the chance to put my hands on the Samsung Corby S3650, here is a first review of the mobile phone and a short comparison to the Nokia 6760 slide that Nokia announced recently for the German market.

The highlight of the new cell phone Samsung I8910 is its AMOLED screen and touchable user interface. You’ ll see that once you take the cell phone in your hand and switch it on. Even though the Samsung I8910 sometimes carries the name affix HD, the screen with a size of 3.7 inches has got only a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels and shows 16.7 million colors. But: Pictures on the screen are sharp, colors are bright, and contrast is strong. Even from an angle of up to 160 degree you can still recognize what the touch screen displays.

To sum it up: The Samsung I8910 is a great entertainment phone with a very good touch screen and a huge memory.

Over time, the dual SIM card cell phone Samsung SGH-D880 DuoS has become a real bargain. With a starting price of 329 euros in January 2008 it is now available in online shopping stores for prices beginning at 150 euros without shipping cost.