Samsung Duos D780 in a Gold edition for Beijing Olympic

[Ruth]

Samsung Duos D780 in a Gold edition for Beijing Olympic

The Russian division of Samsung announced today the release of a Samsung Duos D780 in a Gold edition, which will be the official phone of Russia's Olympic team for the Beijing Olympic Games held in August. The handset will be commercialized as a limited edition, starting the 8th of August – the date when the 2008 Olympic Games debut.

Besides being plated with gold, the luxurious D780 also has the official logo of the Olympic Games engraved in its back case. These aspects aside, the golden D780 is the same device as the one Samsung released in Russia back in May.

• Dual-SIM capability
• 2.1 inch TFT display with 262K colors and 240 x 320 pixels
• Tri-band GSM connectivity (900 / 1800 / 1900 Mhzv)
• GPRS and EDGE, email and Web capabilities
• Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
• Music and Video player (supporting MP3, AAC+ and MPEG-4 formats)
• stereo FM radio
• 2.0 Megapixel camera with video recording
• Java MIDP 2.0
• document viewer
• handsfree
• USB 2.0
• 1200 mAh battery
• Weighing 108 grams and measuring 115 x 49.6 x15.7 millimeters
• Internal memory of 60MB expandable up to 2GB via a microSD card.

Enlarge pictureThe retail price of the Olympic Samsung D780 was not announced.

[Lucjan]

Nice phone from Samsung. This phone also with official logo of the Olympic.

[Aadesh]

this phone will release in India ?

[rich3]

Olympic Samsung Phones will release on 4th July in Canada

Bell Mobility and Samsung seem to be pretty involved in Canada's participation at this year's edition of the Olympic Games (celebrated in Beijing, China, between August 8 and August 24), as the companies have announced that they will offer Samsung Ace smartphones for every member of Canada's Olympic Team. Moreover, Bell and Samsung will also release, on the 4th of July, a Samsung M530 Olympic Edition phone.

Samsung Ace is a Windows Mobile 6.0 smartphone that features a 2.3 inch TFT display, a full QWERTY keypad, stereo Bluetooth, a 1.3 Megapixel camera, email and Web capabilities, document viewer and so on.