Samsung Corby II spotted

A new Samsung Corby phone has been discovered in a Google search cache of a Samsung website.

The phone, Samsung Corby II, is to use a Dolphin browser and will support MIDP 2.1 and CLDC 1.1, or Mobile Java. GSMArena, who stumbled upon the new Samsung phone, speculates that Corby II will run Samsung’s feature phone OS which is based on Java and will have the company’s TouchWiz user interface.

Samsung Corby II is said to have a QVGA resolution screen, though that would make the display exactly like its predecessor’s, which is not very likely to happen. The much-anticipated Mobile World Congress 2011 will be held in Barcelona in a few days and Samsung’s new phones are expected to be unveiled there. Related: Samsung Corby Pop in India

Photo: Samsung Corby II

Samsung has sold 3 million units of Corby S3650 since its release in 2009, and we will be waiting for Corby II’s India launch. Corby I has interchangeable, brightly coloured backs and was among the first devices to have a capacitive touchscreen. It comes with two jackets, and since it is targeted at young people, Corby has apps for Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Picasa, YouTube, Flickr and so forth.

The original Samsung Corby uses Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, quad band GSM and Edge networks, has 90MB of internal storage and a microSD slot that supports up to 8GB of data, as well as a USB 2.0 port. It has a 2-megapixel camera with smile detection that can capture QVGA quality video at 15 frames per second. The phone has an FM radio with RDS and sound recognition technology for finding songs. Also see: Samsung Corby Folder phones

Even though Corby I seems to have had a pretty good spec list for its time, GSM Arena, which did a detailed review of Samsung’s Corby, concluded that the flaws in the phone are that it lacks 3G connectivity and an accelerometer for maintaining screen orientation.

Also, its microSD card was hidden beneath the battery so the phone has to be switched off every time its memory is taken out. The phone’s camera lacks flash and auto focus, and there is no virtual QWERTY keyboard either.

Samsung will certainly solve many of these problems in its new Corby II smartphone. Heavy Internet use is difficult without a full keyboard; 3G is perhaps declasse considering that there are 3.5G and 4G networks now; and a phone without an accelerometer will never attract the youth any longer, who won’t be able to play state of the art games on it.

Samsung is expected to release, in addition to Corby II, two low-end phones called Nari E2230 for Russia and Caruso E2330 at MWC 2011.

Source: GSMArena