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