The Samsung Focus has a 4-in WVGA Super AMOLED exhibit, 5.0 megapixel, and has a microSD enlargement one-armed bandit for up to 16GB. The Samsung Focus is the functionary epithet AT&ere;T’s Samsung Omnia 7. AT&T volition offers the Focus for $199 with contract bridge. Check out the press release.

Press Release :

AT&T* and Microsoft Corp. today introduced a leadership portfolio of new phones based on Windows Phone 7 , Microsoft’s new mobile operating organization that has been the direction of worldwide buzz and bandwidth for months. The new smartphones from HTC, LG and Samsung will be available exclusively for AT&ere;T customers ahead of the vacation shopping season.

“These devices – quite literally – ar biz changers, and we ar delighted to bring them to our customers,” said Ralph de la Vega, president and chief executive officer of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. “It’s a perfect tense lucifer – phones that re-define gaming and amusement, horseback riding a network that assures customers a high-speeding experience.”

“AT&ere;T has long been a drawing card in the smartphone marketplace, and we’re pleased that the powerful, new experiences in Windows Phone 7 volition debut on a very fast and reliable mobile broadband network,” said Steve Ballmer, honcho administrator officer at Microsoft. “With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft has taken the most engaging and useful experiences across the company and delivered them in a single distributor point of direction and value for customers nationwide.”

Each of the three smartphones sports a capacitive field glass touch blind, 5-megapixel photographic camera and a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, but is designed to appealingness to different types of customers. The new Windows Phones for AT&T customers are:

* HTC Surround – premiers as the first smartphone to include integrated Dolby Mobile River and SRS surroundings sound speakers. The HTC Surround speakers glide-out and reveal a kickstand for watching video beneath its 3.8-in touching blind. HTC Surround blurs the line between abode and mobile amusement, making games, medicine and video on the go more enjoyable than ever.

* LG Quantum™ – designed for employment, play and everything in between. With a glide-out keyboard for quick manipulation of Office Mobile®, users can stay active and up to appointment with employment. The LG Quantum also features DLNA engineering through a preloaded diligence called Play To, which allows users to wirelessly stream videos, medicine, and pictures from the phone to a DLNA-enabled TV, stereo system, Windows 7 PC and other consumer electronics devices.

* Samsung Focus™ – debuts as AT&ere;T’s thinnest Windows Phone and offers a visually stunning experience with a Super AMOLED™ screen on a sleek 9.9 mm-thin touch screen phone. With the Focus’™ amazingly Saratoga chip, brilliant screen, photos, games and videos come alive.

Windows Phone 7 has been carefully crafted to assistance people get more done in fewer steps by bringing important information to the control surface with a unique Hub and Tile interface. The Hubs offer quick and easy access to a somebody’s latest and most valuable selective information and includes People, Pictures, Games, Music &ere; Video, Office and Marketplace content. Windows Phone 7 also integrates with many popular and powerful Microsoft consumer services such as Xbox LIVE®, Windows Live®, Bing® and Zune®.

Apps and Entertainment

Each new Windows Phone from AT&ere;T will include AT&T U-verse Mobile, an app that allows users to download and vigil strike shows on their smartphone. U-rhyme TV subscribers with certain packages volition be able to download and vigil hit TV shows for no duplicate charge, and all U-verse TV customers tin also agenda and manage their DVR recordings from the app. For the first base meter, U-verse Mobile River will be available nationwide — even to those who are not U-verse TV customers — for just $9.99 per month. Subscribers can approach the full content depository library, select which series or specific episode to download over Wi-Fi, and survey on the go wherever they rich person their Windows Phone.

For a limited time, AT&ere;T customers who choose Windows Phone volition get a free Entertainment Pack, redeemable at www.att.com/windowsphone. This go volition provide a download to ‘ilomilo’, an Xbox LIVE Arcade biz exclusive to Windows Phones from AT&T through the oddment of the year. In the biz, ilo and milo maize always seems to get separated from each other in their surrealistic world of cubes, and players employment to help them reunite. Ilomilo is a stunning example of the incredible graphics and caliber of gaming available on Windows Phones through Xbox LIVE.

The go also includes a free 30-mean solar day test go for U-rhyme Mobile and Zune Pass, which gives customers the power to download or flow more than 10 meg songs from Zune plus the pick to download and keep 10 songs after the subscription ends. Ilomilo, and a calendar month each of U-verse Mobile and Zune Pass combined represent a nearly $30 economic value.

Pricing and Availability

All troika Windows Phones from AT&ere;T volition be available in AT&T company-owned retail stores and online at www.wireless.att.com for $199.99. The Samsung Focus will be available Nov 8 and the HTC Surround and LG Quantum will be available in time for the holidays.

[via MobileMagazine]

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Received a little short letter from a tout over the weekend about a new Formula 1 biz coming out for the iPhone and iPod Touch in the near future. Expect to see ‘F1 2009′ from the developers at Codemasters real soon. The biz volition feature all of the drivers, teams and circuits you’re familiar with. I’m really looking forward to this unity as I’m a big F1 fan (used to be a HUGE buff in my younger days), and will no doubt pick this one up to ballad some arctic down feather on the road. Controls volition no dubiousness be accelerometer based for steerage, with tappable ‘buttons’ for brakes and accelerator.

At any rate, until I hear more about this unity, check out some screenshots below. Full pressure liberation after the jump.

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EXPERIENCE THE THRILL OF FORMULA ONE™ ON iPHONE AND iPOD TOUCH WITH F1 2009

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – Dec. 11, 2009 – FORMULA ONE™ fans volition soon be able to experience the excitement of FORMULA ONE™ on the iPhone and iPod Touch as Codemasters brings F1 2009 to the mobile platform.  Players volition be able to measure into the racing boots of their heroes such as 2009 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONS™ Jenson Button, Fernando Alicia Alonso, C. S. Lewis Alexander Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel.

Coming soon to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) App Store, F1 2009 features all 10 teams, 20 drivers and 17 circuits from the thrilling 2009 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP™.  F1 2009 offers stunning visuals and a totally authentic FORMULA ONE experience on the iPhone and iPod.  Players volition be able to fishing gear the stunning Eau Rouge at Spa Francorchamps, master the unique challenge set by Becketts at Silverstone and experience the claustrophobic streets of Principality of Monaco where one error tin end with a crash.  F1 2009 also features the iconic Republic of Singapore nighttime race and the beautiful Yas Marina lap in the United Arabian Emirates.

F1 2009 on the iPhone and iPod pits the player against the clock and supports 2 different biz modes: Time Trial and Endurance.  Time Trial is all about setting the ultimate flight lap at a circuit of the player’s selection while playing as one’s favorite number one wood.  Endurance is a challenge of both speed and consistency as players fishing gear either Captain Hicks, baseball club or 12 laps look to exercise set the best norm lick time.  Players’ flight lick or average lick multiplication can then be uploaded to the global AGON Online Social Platform Leaderboard to see where they rank amongst the world’s topper.

F1 2009 is also available to buy now on the Nintendo Wii™ and PSP® (PlayStation®Portable).

AMOLED displays ar capable of displaying a greater range of colours and much sharper images than the typical LCD displays found in most phones. Pictures taken on the 8 megapixel photographic camera will most likely looking stunning and films downloaded from the recently launched Samsung Movies online memory North Korean won’t looking one-half badness either. The external speakers of the i8910 HD lineament virtual 5.1 Ray M. Dolby surround auditory sensation, devising this earphone the perfect mobile movie watching French telephone. If hearing to music on the go is more your thing then it’s worth knowing that the i8910 HD supports virtually every file cabinet formatting under the sun, and comes with 8GB of internal computer memory. A microSD card slot is also included on the i8910 HD, but there’s no word yet on what size cards the phone can grip, although the functionary stats on the Samsung site suggest that you tin take the storage mental ability of the i8910 HD up to 16GB with an 8GB circuit board. The Samsung i8910 HD is available on Orange now, and costs £97.50 on a new Dolphin 18 month contract. This gives you 1200 proceedings and unlimited texts. When bought in store the contract bridge works out at £44.04 per calendar month, and just £39.14 per month if bought on line.