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  UPDATE 3: Phone will be launched in Feb in Italy for 129 euros. UPDATE 2: Other European countries will get the phone for about 149 euros. UPDATE: Star II will arrive in Russia by end of February. It will be an MTS exclusive initially and will be priced at 6,990 rubles (US$234). Star II [...]

  Samsung maybe doing well with its touchscreen-equipped Android and bada phones but we cannot undermine the fact that Star (S5230) – running proprietary OS – was the one that set the ball rolling. Samsung has announced that Star sales have surpassed a whopping 30 million units. Launched in May 2009, it is the second [...]

  Clarion Hotel Stockholm in Sweden has initiated a pilot project that replaces a conventional hotel room key to a mobile phone and the first phone to be used in the project is Samsung’s Star S5230N. Selected guests were handed out the device with the pre-loaded software which allowed them to check in or check [...]

  Just like what Samsung did with Corby styled headsets, they’re adopting the same strategy for its other headsets. Now users owning Monte, Star or Wave devices will be able to pick similarly-styled Bluetooth headsets. The HM1600 has been designed similarly to Monte whereas HM3100 to Star and HM3200 to Wave.   However, aesthetics is [...]

  Samsung is already selling S3370 as Corby 3G in Russia and now they’ve announced it for the Indian market. However, this time the phone will belong to the Star family and will be known as Nano 3G. Samsung wants to provide a 3G handset on the cheap and Star Nano 3G enables it for [...]

  Samsung’s Corby range might have taken Star S5230’s cheapest touchscreen phone tag but the hot selling Star is living in the form of special editions. Two special editions of Star S5230 have been rolled out in Germany – one to please the football fans and the other to please the women. The Fan Package [...]

  UPDATE: Check out a small hands-on video of the phone from Mobile-review. Samsung’s aging Star phone has got a new lease of life with the addition of TV viewing feature. No it’s not the DMB that the Koreans are used to get in almost every phone but an analog mobile TV receiver where consumers [...]

  With plethora of touchscreen handsets available from Samsung, this milestone was somewhat expected. They’ve announced to sell its 50 millionth unit this month ensuring touchscreen handset market is where the volume (and money) is. The total figure is cumulative of 10m units from 2008 and 40m this year. However, if we consider the growth [...]

  Samsung’s hot selling S5230 Star has reached the iconic milestone. The phone has surpassed sales of 10m units and is the fastest selling Samsung device till date. Star achieved this figure in just 6 months, about 4 months faster than Samsung’s E250 that reached the 10 million landmark. Star boasts a 3-inch WQVGA touchscreen, [...]

  Own a Samsung touchscreen equipped phone? Use an Airtel connection? If you answered yes to both the questions, there’s some good news for you. Airtel is offering three months of free data usage up to 100MB on Samsung phones. The phones include Corby S3653, Star (S5233), StarW, S5603, F480 and i8910. To activate, send [...]