The touchscreen fever continues – Samsung S5600 & S5230 coming soon!

Samsung has entered into touchscreen battle, trying to compete with Sony Ericsson’s G800, Nokia’s Xpress Music Legend 5800, and the likes of them.

These two elegant handsets will not be in the range of iPhone 3G, Sony Xperia, or Blackberry Storm, but rather compete with the mid range PDAs & smart-phones.

Both these touch-screen based latest mobile phones will be unleashed with the following specs:

• 2.5G, HSDPA EDGE, GPRS Quad Band (850/900/1800/1900MHz)

• 3.0” 262K WQVGA LCD Display with 240×400 resolution

• 3 MP Cam with CMOS (Smile Shot)

• Support to H.263, H.264, and MPEG4 Video formats

• Video recording supporting QVGA@15fps

• FM Radio with RDS, DNSe

• Music Recognition

• Support to MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, eAAC+, WMA, AMR, MIDI, SP-MIDI, i-melody, WAV

• SNS/Photo Contact

• Gesture Lock/Wide Idle screen/Handwriting

• TouchWiz UI with Mobile Widget

• Full Internet browsing/Online Widget

• Various full embedded games

• Bluetooth v2.1

• USB 2.0 FS

• 50 MB Internal Memory + External Memory micro SDHC slot expandable up to 8GB

• Dimensions: 104 x 53 x 11.9 mm

• 1000 mAh Battery

S5230 will feature a larger screen, while 5600 will come with HSDPA capability. No word on pricing or availability, but as per latest news they’re supposed to be available in the month of May!

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