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Samsung whips phones into shape

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May 9, 20061 min

Slenderest of two new phones is 6.9 millimeters and it weighs 66 grams

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has taken the wraps off two cellular phones that it says are the slimmest of their kind.

The SGH-X820 is both slender at 6.9 millimeters and light at 66 grams, but it still manages to pack a 2-megapixel digital camera. The tri-band GSM phone comes in a candy-bar form factor. It will be available in Russia from June and then in other European markets.

The SGH-D900 is the thinnest slider-type phone available, Samsung said. It is 13 millimeters thick and weighs 93 grams. There’s a 3-megapixel digital camera and the phone is a quad-band model.

Both phones can play music in the MP3, AAC, AAC plus and Windows Media Audio formats. They come with MPEG 4 and H.263 video recording capability, Bluetooth, USB and PictBridge printing software. Both have 80M-bytes of embedded memory.

The X820 has a 1.9-inch screen with 176 x 220 pixel resolution, while the D900 has a 2.1-inch screen with 240 x 320 pixel resolution.

The phones will be on show at the Sviaz ExpoComm 2006 exhibition that runs from May 10 to 13 in Moscow. Pricing was not announced.