Samsung Highnote

September 12, 2008

Samsung Highnote

The Samsung Highnote slider phone is a Sprint exclusive with a hidden speaker that reveals itself when you slide the phone face down. Even in the middle of a press event, you could hear the speaker at work, and it didn’t sound excessively tinny or distorted.

Aside from the speaker, the phone has a 0-9 keypad sits on the bottom end of the phone under the face, and a rotating dial on the front is used for menu navigation. The Highnote also uses the “One Click” UI designed by Frog, which automatically brings up context options when you scroll over a menu icon (phone, messaging, internet, etc…). This will streamline and simplify the user experience.

The Highnote will indeed play music for you. The design will let you access your digital music. Sliding the phone upwards will give you access to a dial pad for better music control. You will have access to Sprint’s Music Store, Sprint’s Navigation, and web and email. There’s a 2 mega pixel camera, Bluetooth connectivity and the speaker-independent voice recognition we’ve seen also in the Rant earlier.
Samsung Highnote is a dual-slider CDMA music phone featuring 2″ color screen, 2-mega pixel camera, stereo speakers, 3.5mm headphone jack, microSDHC memory card slot, stereo Bluetooth and GPS.

This dual slider handset will be available from Sprint starting with October 19th. You can get this phone for just $99.99 after $50 with the same 2 years contract. Samsung Highnote M630 Red