Samsung M3200 Beat is the kind of phone that just screams to every music enthusiast “pick me up and listen how good I am” and indeed you won’t be disappointed with the music features on the M3200 Beat. However, might not have the air of sophistication the i450 has but this has got to wins

Samsung M3200 Beat s may lack the Serenata sophistication or the feature set of i450 but it walks and talks music. And the dedicated music keys up front are just a bit of a taster. Inside the M3200 Beat...

There's an interesting interview here, on SymbianOne, with The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), who are behind the transitions and other animated elements in S60 3rd Edition FP2 and also, apparently, behind the Samsung i450's novel Music player application. While you're visiting you might also want to read this piece on a UIQ developer's perspective on the Symbian Foundation. Both are ...

Samsung has now launched, in beta, its new developer website, Samsung Mobile Innovator, which aims to help software developers create applications for Samsung S60 phones. The site provides technical and marketing support as well as a number of developer tools.  An early highlight is the provision of an API to access the touchwheel of the i450 phone and similar custom APIs, for other Samsung d...

Thanks for SymbianOne for spotting the opening of Samsung Mobile Innovator web site. The site is currently in beta test but a couple of valuable information can already been found there. One of the addition to the S60 platform is the SDK plug-in for i450 Touchwheel API . read more

Samsung has launched a beta version of new Samsung's portal for S60 developers which contains various developers useful resources and the first Samsung specific S60 SDK plug-in for the i450 Touchwheel API. Website is currently under heavy beta testing, so please take a look around and pay a special visit technical resources. This means that registration isn't fully open you won't be...

My buddy Meraj over at phonereport has published a comparison between the Nokia N95 and the Samsung i450. Both devices are dualslider-devices, that means that you can slide it in both ways up and down. Head over to read his great comparison and let him know what you think!

In the third part of his review of the Samsung i450, Ewan reckons that devices like this are key to the future of S60 - with the technology becoming both less visible and incumbent in low to mid-tier phones. He also looks at the standard application set and at third party application compatibility.

In the second part of his review of the Samsung i450, Ewan explores the music functionality of this unashamedly music-focussed smartphone. How do the dual slide and rubber music 'arc' work out in practice? And what about the fancy Bang and Olufsen '3D' equalisation electronics?

It's... Insight number 24, aka AAS audio podcast 73, in which the usual team discuss the news of the week, including N-Gage and Nokia Communication Center (sic), three new S60 3rd Edition smartphones (black N82, Samsung i450, Nokia 6124c) and we introduce the idea and state of play in the world of Location Based Search.