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Samsung Messager Hits MetroPCS

Nick Mokey By

The Messager targets the likes of the Sidekick with a side-sliding QWERTY keyboard.

Move over Sidekick, there’s a new side-slider in town. On Friday, Samsung announced the new SCH-R450 Messager for the MetroPCS network, a relatively no-frills handset except for its handy slide-out QWERTY keyboard.

The simplistic rectangular phone gets a 2.1-inch LCD, 1.3-megapixel camera, MP3 capabilities, and just about every type of text capability under the sun, including SMS, MMS, and IM. There’s also a microSD slot for expanding its storage by up to 2GB, speakerphone, Bluetooth, and advanced voice recognition.

MetroPCS has the phone available immediately, in black only, for $199 with no contract.

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  1. multinational health insurance at 1:12pm 10th December 2010 I need to hear exactly what Stevie thinks about that??
  2. ? at 7:24pm 9th August 2008 This phone doesn't seem any better and looking at the keyboard, defiantly not better than the Sidekicks.
  3. COCOA at 6:35pm 9th August 2008 THIS PHONE ROCKS. IT LOOKS COOL AND SEEMS LIKE A REALLY GOOD PHONE. IM GETTING IT!!! IT HAS REALLY COOL FEATURES ON IT.
    THANK YOU SAMSUNG CELL PHONE MAKERS FOR MAKING THIS AWESOME PHONE!!!!
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