Verizon Wireless officially announced The Samsung Trance, a slim and slider music phone with touchpad navigation. Enhanced audio quality backed by Bang & Olufsen’s ICEpower amp, the stylish phone will be available on April 24, 2009, in two colors – Piano Black and Electric Red.
Its complete features including (taken from Verizon website):
- CDMA 1x 800/1900 MHz digital only
- Dimensions: 4” x 1.97” x 0.55” with battery
- Screen size: 2.1”
- Display: 176 x 220 pixel, 262K TFT color
- Number of lines: eight
- 3.5 mm headset jack
- Weight: 3.53 ounces with standard battery
- SAR: head 1.34 W/kg, body 0.907 W/kg
- Usage time: up to 270 minutes with standard battery or
- Standby time: up to 300 hours with standard battery
- V CAST Music with Rhapsody.
- microSD card slot that supports up to 16 GB of additional music (card purchased separately)
- Music player for .mp3, .wma, unprotected .aac and unprotected .aac+ formats
- 1 GB internal memory dedicated for music
- Create and manage playlists
- Ability to multitask while listening to music
- One touch access to music
- 1.3 megapixel camera with NightShot
- Brightness adjustment
- Self Timer: off, three, five or 10 seconds
- Color Effects: normal, black and white, antique, negative, green, aqua
- Preview mode
- Resolution adjustment: 1280 x 960, 1024 x 768, 640 x 480, 320 x 240, 160 x 120, 128 x 96
- Digital zoom
- Supported Profiles: headset, hands-free, stereo, basic imaging, Object Push for vCard and vCal, serial port and phonebook access
- Embedded ring tones, vibrating alerts and silent
- Sound technology by Bang & Olufsen ICEpower
- Voice Commands
- Speakerphone
- Bilingual interface: English/Español
- Airplane mode
- Personal organizer: calendar with scheduler, notepad
- Phonebook with up to 1,000 entries with multiple contacts
- Speed dialing
- Hearing aid compatibility = M4 T3

You can bring Samsung Trance home at $49.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.
[via Press Release]








