Samsung Corby Mate to be launched in India

Samsung has announced the launch of its full QWERTY phone, dubbed the Corby Mate, in the Indian market.

UPDATE: Samsung has launched the Samsung Corby Mate B3313 and Samsung Corby TXT B3210 in India. Click here for price, specifications, and launch details of the two phones.

The Samsung Corby Mate is known as the Samsung B3310 in Europe.

Photo: Samsung Corby Mate

The phone has a four-line slide-out QWERTY keyboard on the left of the display screen.

The Samsung Corby Mate has a 2-inch TFT display screen with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels, a 2-mega pixel camera with multi-shot modes, photo effects, and video player, and FM radio.

Photo: Samsung Corby Mate full QWERTY keyboard

The Corby Mate is a GSM quadband phone that runs Samsung’s proprietary operating system. It will be available in four colors, Black, Pink, Blue and Green.

The phone is more suited to messaging and social networking. The Samsung Corby Mate provides quick messaging access, threaded inbox, and home screen shortcuts for direct access to social networking sites.

Photo: Samsung Corby Mate back view

Connectivity specifications of the phone include WAP, Bluetooth, SyncML(DS), SyncML(DM), PC Sync Application, and HTML Browser.

The phone comes with 40MB internal memory expandable to 8GB with MicroSD card.

The Samsung Corby Mate comes with a standard 800mAh battery with talk time up to 9 Hrs and standby time up to 324 hrs.

Photo: Samsung Corby Mate side view

The company has not revealed when the Samsung Corby Mate will be launched in India and at what price.

Recently, Samsung had launched the Samsung Corby in India, at a price of Rs 9600. Considering the Samsung Corby has more features than the Samsung Corby Mate – it comes with Samsung’s new Touchwiz UI and haptic feedback system – expect the Samsung Corby Mate to be considerably cheaper.

Samsung Corby Mate phone main specifications

Display screen TFT, 256K colors, 240 x 320 pixels, 2.0 inches

Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP

USB v2.0

GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps

HSCSD Yes

EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps

Camera 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels, video recording

Radio Stereo FM with RDS

Colors Black, Pink, Blue, Green

Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 800 mAh
Stand-by time Up to 380 h
Talk time Up to 5 h