This isn't your
father's cell phone

Samsung is showing a number of amazing new phones at the show.  They’re being introduced in Samsung’s home market but I’ll bet we’ll see some of the coolest features on their U.S. phones in the very near future.

I know camera phones are all the rage, but how about a 7 megapixel camera phone?

The SCH-V770 features a 3x optical and a 5x digital zoom, auto focus and flash and allows for manual adjustment of focus, focal length, shutter speed and exposure. There's even a TV-out function to connect the phone to your TV to watch your pictures and movies.

Samsung From this angle, the V770 looks more like a digital camera than a phone.

Then there’s the SCH-i300 Smartphone.  Instead of a card-based storage system, this phone has a 3 GB hard drive built inside. That means you can use your i300 to store approximately 1,000 music files and listen to them on the built-in stereo speakers or headphones. 

You could also use the i300 as a removable hard drive to carry any type of file between computers. There’s also a 1.3 megapixel camera and Samsung’s TV-out connection.

Samsung Samsung's Smartphone with a 3GB hard drive.

And finally, the Samsung B100 has a built-in camcorder than can record up to four hours of video. That’s a good feature because you can also watch DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) satellite TV programs on your phone.

Speaking of watching television on your cell phone, MobiTV made a huge announcement this morning. In addition to newscasts and streaming video from companies like MSNBC and NBC Mobile, Fox and others, MobiTV has just signed an exclusive, 3-year agreement with Major League Baseball.

The partnership will deliver live television and radio broadcasts of regular season games to mobile phones beginning on Opening Day, April 3. We’re talking live, full-game phonecasting.  Very, very cool!

One warning though, similar to cable and satellite, live video broadcast of MLB games will be subject to standard blackout restrictions. If you can’t see it on TV or cable you won’t be able to do so on your cell phone either.

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