Mobius Seattle 2008: Samsung U900 Soul

Posted on 15 May 2008 by


This wasn’t from a presentation, but I thought it was something you all might enjoy. Michael Oryl of Mobile Burn recently received a Samsung Soul, a European Market fashion phone that looks really amazing. He pulled it out on one of our breaks and shared it with me; I found it to be a very sexy little feature phone. The various materials from which is it composed give it a satisfying in-hand weight, and the textures that your hand encounters make it feel…for lack of a better word…”posh”. ;-)

Michael says, “Samsung’s new SGH-U900 Soul gets its name from Samsung calling the device the “Soul Of ULtra”, a fitting name for what the company says is the last handset in its original Ultra line of thin profile feature phones.”

The Soul has a lot of high-tech goodies packed into its metal shell, including a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and a new OLED backed morphing touchpad controller where the d-pad would normally be. So what’s the catch, you ask? Well, the Soul lacks 3G support for North America, and doesn’t even work on the 850MHz GSM/EDGE frequency band that is so common on this side of the Atlantic.





I spent a fair amount of time with prototypes of the Soul when the product was first announced earlier this year, but I am surprised by how much better the device seems now versus then. It is a beautiful looking device that is solidly built, has great ergonomics, and possesses some real nice high-tech bits in its clean looking design. 5 stars all the way.

To read more of Michael’s very thorough review, be sure to visit Mobile Burn. :-)

Link: Michael’s Samsung U900 Soul Review
Link: Michael’s Samsung U900 Posts

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  • Joel McLaughlin

    Looks a little like LG’s Venus, but with a ridge around the touch pad section.

  • http://www.geardiary.com Judie Lipsett

    It’s hard to describe without being able to put both in your hand, but looking at pictures of the two simply doesn’t convey how dissimilar these two phones really are – once you get past the fact that both have bottom sliding keyboards and a display on the front.

    http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/11/29/lg-venus-review/