Tech Shout!

Samsung Mobile together with network provider Sprint has announced the sleek Samsung Ace smartphone. It offers a host of great features including business and personal email, Web browsing and multimedia capabilities, all in a slim and compact body.

The Samsung Ace is powered by the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network and Windows Mobile 6. Thus, users in the US will get access to exclusive Sprint content, including Sprint TV and On Demand for the latest updates on sports, weather, money and general news.

Besides, the Samsung Ace offers Quad-band capabilities and thus operates on CDMA and GSM/GPRS networks, wherever Sprint has international roaming agreements. Sprint customers will be able to make or receive calls in around 180 countries, besides being able to surf the Web and sync their Outlook calendar in over 100 countries.

Other than these connectivity features, the Samsung Ace offers interesting features such as its large 2.3-inch TFT color display, a slide click wheel and a 1.3 mega pixel digital camera.

The Samsung Ace smartphone measures 4.65″ x 2.32″ x 0.46″ and weighs a little less than four ounces.

Additional features of the Samsung Ace smart phone include:

Slim, light form factor with a full QWERTY keyboard

Slide Click Wheel for easy navigation

Stereo Bluetooth Wireless technology

External memory with support for up to 2GB MicroSD cards

1.3 mega pixel digital camera and camcorder with digital zoom

View Documents with Office Word, Office Excel and Office PowerPoint

The Samsung Ace smartphone will be available in the US via Sprint in March 2008, for a price of $199.99 with a two-year service agreement and $100 mail-in-rebate. But, sans the rebates, you can get this smartphone for $499.99 in the US.