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Samsung i750 news: approved in USA by FCC + to be presented at CeBIT 2006

It’s been a long time coming, but Samsung’s i750 smartphone that we saw back in March last year has finally made its way to the US — well, at least to the FCC website. It’s very similar to Samsung’s own i730 except that it replaces the QWERTY keyboard with a numeric keypad, the EV-DO with EDGE, the 1.3 megapixel camera with a 2 megapixel one, and the SD slot with TransFlash.

Last year, at CeBIT 2005, we have seen Samsung presenting the Samsung i750 Pocket PC phone (the one to the left) and now German magazine Connect is reporting that at CeBIT 2006 Samsung will be presenting this phone again, but this time with additional features:

apparently i750 will be presented with OCR software that will run in this phone and will convert images taken with the 2 megapixel camera of this phone to texts, that will be imported to pocket Outlook.

So we guess that is mixing it up quite a bit, but the form factor has remained the same, Bluetooth and WiFi are still here, and unfortunately so is the OS — Windows Mobile 2003 SE is still alive on this phone which doesn’t even have a ship date yet.