Samsung announces 8GB music phone

Samsung has announced a new phone that will sport a whopping 8GB of storage. The SGH-i310 doubles the capacity of last year's 4GB i300x music phone and will be displayed for the first time at this week's CeBit show.

The full specification is impressive:

• Windows Mobile 5.0
• 8GB 1-inch hard drive
• 2 Megapixel camera with flash
• Video recording / playback
• TV-out
• Audio:
  • MP3
  • AAC
  • AAC+
  • WMA
  • WAV
  • Ogg
• dual speakers with digital amplification
• Stereo Bluetooth headset
• USB 2.0
• microSD expandable memory card storage

What more could one want really? Double the storage of the most capacious iPod nano (4GB) without the need to carry around a second device. We expect to see more of the SGH-i310 in a few days at CeBit and Samsung has said the phone will be available in Europe during the second half of this year.

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