October 30, 2008 6:00 AM PDT

Alltel delves into the touch-screen phone game

by Kent German
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The Delve offers a touch-screen phone.

(Credit: Samsung)

Alltel is the winner of a new touch-screen phone from Samsung. The Samsung Delve, aka the r800, offers a thin candy bar design with an expansive touch screen and few physical keys. It shares some of the characteristics of both the Samsung Omnia and Instinct, but it shows its own unique design touches such as a tapered bottom and silver Talk and End buttons.

Features include a 2-megapixel camera, a 3.5mm headset jack, Samsung's TouchWiz interface, a microSD card slot, EV-DO 3G support, Bluetooth with a stereo profile, a speakerphone, a virtual QWERTY keyboard, a 500-contact phone book, personal organizer options messaging, e-mail, and a full HTML browser.

From what we can see, it looks like a sharp addition to Alltel's lineup. It will be available November 6 for $199 with a service contract and a $100 mail in rebate.

Kent German is a senior editor for cell phone reviews at CNET. When he's not testing the newest handsets on the market, he's blogging about cell phone news for Crave. In his On Call column, he answers reader questions and gives his take on the rapidly changing mobile industry. E-mail Kent.
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by abcyesn December 4, 2008 3:47 AM PST
While the Samsung Instinct boasts touch-sensitive controls under the touchscreen display, the Samsung Delve appears to have three physical buttons instead. The rest of the specs are pretty much on par, offering you a 3.0-inch touchscreen, virtual QWERTY keyboard, 2 megapixel camera, HTML browser, and stereo Bluetooth. The Delve also gets equipped with US Cellular's navigation software and Samsung's TouchWiz user interface. The threaded email and SMS are pretty nice too.

Read more on its fans website at http://www.Samsung-Delve.com I think the phone is pretty cool.
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