Boring: Samsung Sway

As expected, Motorola’s VU204 and VU30 flips have teamed up with Samsung’s Sway slider for announcement on Verizon today, bringing an interesting range of new hardware from the low to the upper midrange.

Samsung Sway going the Verizon way Specs, reviews and prices.

Other features of note on the Samsung Sway include mobile instant messaging support, the ability to send both text and picture messages, and Bluetooth wireless capability.

Samsung Sway is a CDMA slider with a 2MP camera, QVGA display, music player, 8GB microSDHC support, Mobile Web 2.0, and Bluetooth.

We’ve been holding off on running this until we got confirmation from Samsung on just what was going on, and now we have it; it’s official, folks the Instinct’s latest firmware update is all about the browser.

Next, we have the Samsung u650 Sway, a silvery slider coming in at 0.47 inches thick and a feature list eerily reminiscent of the VU30’s, right down to the 2-megapixel cam though EV-DO is strangely missing, as far as we can tell.

Samsung has launched two new phones in the Korean market, one of this is the Ultra Messaging II SPH-M4800.

A reasonably attractive pair of phones that have been in the wings for a while now on Verizon are finally hitting next week October 6, to be exact.

The Sway is a slim silver slider style handset with a 2.2″ 262k color display, and it features a 2 megapixel digital camera as well as a music player that is compatible with regular MP3 files and Verizon’s V CAST Music with Rhapsody service.

Rogers’ Samsung Jack, which is Canada-speak for BlackJack II, has been officially blessed with Windows Mobile 6.1.

Today Samsung and Verizon announced the availability of the Samsung SCH-u650 Sway on Verizon’s network.

Ultra Messaging II runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 and supports WiFi and Bluetooth as well as GSM global roaming, 2-megapixel camera and external memory.

It’s clear that Samsung loves two things: slim slider phones and midrange camera phones with a flip design.

The Sway U650 will be shiny silver slider, with a 2MP camera, music player, 8GB microSDHC support, Mobile Web 2.0, and Bluetooth.

Also called the Sway, , the SCH-U650 has a tried-and-true Samsung design.

The Motorola VU30 Rapture is the first of the pair, a glossy flip set to do battle with Sprint’s VE20 featuring a 2-megapixel camera, touch-sensitive external display , GPS, and EV-DO for $179.99 on a two-year contract or $299.99 with no Hancock required.

… the Sway does not support EVDO, which means OTA Music Download are not supported and the remaining data must use the slower 1x network.

The Sway’s features include a 2-megapixel camera, video recording, Bluetooth, a microSD card slot, instant messaging, personal organizer options, text and multimedia messaging, and a speakerphone.

The Samsung SCH-u650 Sway is available online from Verizon Wireless today for US$69.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate, when purchased with a two-year agreement.

Indeed, we’ve seen a deluge of such models over the last few years, with the latest in the slider camp being the Samsung SCH-U650.

On the Moto side, the VU204’s an ultra-basic piece that “meets everyday, on-the-go needs” with a VGA cam and Bluetooth; it runs just $29.99 on activation.

Unfortunately, this is a case where “interesting” isn’t necessarily a good thing; for example, we find it “interesting” that the Sway runs a cool 70 bucks on contract after rebate yet doesn’t feature EV-DO, a feature we’d assume was now standard in a handset of this price.

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Evdo will not be on the sway because it isn’t vcast capable and doesn’t have an html browser.

The VU30 will be a stylish flip phone, taking the place of the discontinued V9m, featuring a QVGA display, 2MP camera and music player with front controls, 8GB microSDHC support , Mobile Web 2.0 with Dashboard , Bluetooth, microUSB port, and a 2.5mm headset jack.

Samsung claims that the Sway’s battery should be good for up to 4.5 hours of talk time or 13 days of standby time.

More recently, we caught wind of an i907 that would be launching on AT&T’s airwaves in the next few weeks; thanks to the model number’s proximity to that of the i900 Omnia, it didn’t take long for rumors to spread that it’d be an AT&T-branded version of the i900 but a counter-rumor claimed that it would actually take the form of the good ol’ i780.

The Samsung Delve seems to be a bit of a mix between Samsung Instinct and the Samsung F480.

2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, Mobile Web 2.0, music/video player, and microSDHC support up to 8GB.

The flip is vaguely reminiscent of the RAZR 2, featuring an expansive secondary touchscreen that can be used to work the phone’s media player, photo viewer, and T-DMB tuner.