The flashy Samsung Corby for a connected generation

Available in multiple colours, the Corby S3650 has been designed first and foremost for the chat generation. Its main selling point? Instant and permanent access to social networking sites.


The manufacturers of mobile phones are also back from their holidays. During September, a whole load of new mobiles and smartphones look set to be announced, following on from the Windows Phone.

The young chat generation, a boon for manufacturers

Samsung opens its autumn-winter 2009/10 collection with a phone designed for the young who live day and night with their phones.

Remember, over 95% of 15-24 years have a mobile phone.

To this add the attraction for touch devices and the fact that they are considered to be the fashion accessory (that therefore need changing regularly if you’re going to keep up). Great news for phone manufacturers.

A full wardrobe

With its flashy coating and interchangeable casings (one black and the other colourful), its curvy profile, 2.8 inch touchscreen and an animation inspired interface, the Corby has plenty of features likely to interest the target market.

What’s more it gives access to your favourite social networking site (Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and so on) and you can see the status of friends from your welcome page.

One regret however is that it is not a 3G device and therefore only has the Edge network. This is strange for a telephone that is also supposed to transfer photos and videos.

For the rest, it has a 2 Mpixel camera sensor, Bluetooth, a 50 MB internal memory and a microSD port.

The Corby is 103 x 56.5 x 12.4 mm in size and weighs 93g.

It will be on sale as of the second half of September for a stand alone 125 pounds.

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