Samsung+Microsoft smartphone

Samsung Electronics, South Korea’s largest corporation, joined Microsoft on Monday in launching the first mobile phone in Asia and Europe to use high-speed HSDPA wireless technology. The companies said the phone — the Samsung Ultra Messaging i600 — was the world’s thinnest 3G smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard.

It is also the first smartphone that supports Web applications like podcasts and RSS Feeder, which scans Web sites for updates, the companies said.

Source: ET