Playing on the growing demand in the mobile gaming space, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. released the SCH-V450, a new three-dimensional gaming phone.
The device comes with three installed games that can be viewed in 3D and heard through dual speakers. Users can also download more 3D games specifically designed for the phone from the Samsung Fun Club at Samsung’s Web site.
The phone features a clamshell design, an extendable keypad and a joystick to improve the mobile gaming experience. It also comes with a 32 MB Memory Stick Duo that can be inserted into a slot on the side of the phone.
Users can record up to 2.5 hours of images and send images from the V450, along with play and manipulate MP3 files.
Samsung declined to comment on price and availability of the device.
The game-centric phone is reminiscent of Nokia Corp.’s N-Gage mobile-phone/video-game device. Introduction of the revamped version the device, N-Gage QD, in the U.S. market was recently delayed. It is now scheduled to debut here at the end of this month and will cost about $180 before carrier subsidies.
In other device news, Boost Mobile this week released the i285 handset by Motorola. Offered exclusively from Boost, the new phone features a keyboard with a flame facade and a discreet vanity mirror located inside the handset’s back cover.
