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Starting April 24 Verizon Wireless will release the Samsung Trance in two colors – Piano Black and Electric Red. The Samsung Trance is a high-powered music phone with touchpad navigation and enhanced audio quality playback thanks to the Bang & Olufsen’s ICEpower amp. The Trance will be price at $49.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year service agreement ($50 rebate will come in the form of a debit card rather than a check).
The Samsung Trance has been built for V CAST Music with Rhapsody and includes 1GB of internal memory for music and a microSD slot capable of supporting up to 16GB cards. The Trance also features the abiliy to multitaks while listening to music so you don’t need to worry about having to keep the music player open while texting or playing games on the phone. A 1.3 megapixel camera with NighShot, Digital Zoom, Multishot and three, five or 10 second timer has also been included on the Trance.
A few other noteworthy specs are the smaller 3.5mm headphone jack, CDMA 1x 800/1900 MHz digital only radios and up to 270 minutes of usage or 300 hours of standby time. For a full breakdown of all the features and specifications of the Samsung Trance see the breakdown below.
Music
- V CAST Music with Rhapsody (subscription & PC downloads) – allows customers to choose from more than 5 million songs, download the master copy of their songs to their PCs free of digital rights management (DRM) software and sync their favorite tracks, albums and playlists from their PCs to their Samsung Trance phones using a USB cable (Note: over-the-air music downloads are not supported)
- microSD™ card slot that supports up to 16 GB of additional music (card purchased separately)
- Music player for .mp3, .wma, unprotected .aac and unprotected .aac+ formats
- 1 GB internal memory dedicated for music (actual formatted capacity is less)
- Create and manage playlists
- Ability to multitask while listening to music
- One touch access to music
Camera
- 1.3 megapixel camera with NightShot
- Brightness adjustment
- Self Timer: off, three, five or 10 seconds
- Color Effects: normal, black and white, antique, negative, green, aqua
- Preview mode
- Resolution adjustment: 1280 x 960, 1024 x 768, 640 x 480, 320 x 240, 160 x 120, 128 x 96
- Digital zoom
- Multishot
Bluetooth®
- Supported Profiles: headset, hands-free, stereo, basic imaging, Object Push for vCard and vCal, serial port and phonebook access
Voice/Audio
- Embedded ring tones, vibrating alerts and silent
- Sound technology by Bang & Olufsen ICEpower
- Voice Commands: voice dial, menu readout, digit dial readout, text message readout, and call alert
- Speakerphone
General
- Bilingual interface: English/Español
- Airplane mode
- Personal organizer: calendar with scheduler, notepad
- Tools: alarm clock, world clock, calculator with converter, stopwatch
- Phonebook with up to 1,000 entries with multiple contacts
- Speed dialing
- Hearing aid compatibility = M4 T3
Specifications
- CDMA 1x 800/1900 MHz digital only
- Dimensions: 4” x 1.97” x 0.55” with battery
- Screen size: 2.1”
- Display: 176 x 220 pixel, 262K TFT color
- Number of lines: eight
- 3.5 mm headset jack
- Weight: 3.53 ounces with standard battery
- SAR: head 1.34 W/kg, body 0.907 W/kg
- Usage time: up to 270 minutes with standard battery or
- Standby time: up to 300 hours with standard battery
Additional Services
- Mobile Web capable – customizable, enhanced wireless access to the latest in news, sports, weather and more
- Mobile Email, Mobile Web Mail, and chat-capable
- Media Center – downloadable games, ringtones, wallpapers, location-based services and more
- Text, picture, and voice messaging with threaded messaging feature
- Chaperone® Parent-capable – customers can view location information or be notified of the whereabouts of the Chaperone Child phone
- Chaperone® Child-capable – allows the Samsung Trance to have its location shared with family members via the Chaperone Web site, the Chaperone® Parent application or Child Zone® SMS alerts
- VZ Navigator(SM)-capable – customers can get audible turn-by-turn directions to more than 15 million points of interest and share the directions with others
Via Verizon Wireless
