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Samsung has launched the Galaxy Spica i5700, the company’s latest Android-powered smartphone.

It offers an 800 MHz core–meaning it’s probably similar to the Samsung Moment inside–as well as first-in-class DivX video support. The Spica features a 3.2-inch touch screen display, dual-band 900/2100 MHz HSDPA support, and 128MB of internal memory.

The Galaxy Spica also comes with a standard-size 3.5mm headphone jack, a 1500 mAh battery, and the usual full compliment of Google-powered services.

It’s available beginning today in Europe and the CIS region, and will soon expand to the Middle East and Africa. No word yet on an American release.

Anyone who bought a Nokia cell phone recently listen up: Nokia has just launched a recall program for certain Nokia-branded AC adapters.

“We have determined that the plastic covers of the affected chargers could come loose and separate, exposing the charger’s internal components and potentially posing an electric shock hazard if certain internal components are touched while the charger is plugged into a live socket.”

Sounds fun. Engadget Mobile reports that the affected chargers are models AC-3E and AC-3U, manufactured between June 15 and August 9, 2009, and model AC-4U, manufactured between April 13 and October 25, 2009. Check out Nokia’s dedicated recall Web site for more information on obtaining a free replacement.

Samsung Mobile has unveiled the Samsung Mythic and Samsung Flight, two phones that will hit AT&T stores and AT&T’s Web site on November 8th.

The black Mythic looks sort of similar to the existing Solstice. It sports a 3.3-inch touch screen, along with Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface for dragging and dropping semi-useful widgets all over the home screen. The Mythic also features quick Facebook and MySpace access, along with support for AT&T Mobile TV and AT&T Navigator.

The Flight (pictured), meanwhile, is a vertical slider–something we’re seeing more and more of lately, after a few years on hiatus. The Flight features a somewhat cramped-looking QWERTY keyboard and a touch screen. It includes one-touch access to Web favorites, app shortcuts, SMS, MMS, instant messaging, and mobile e-mail. The Flight will be available in red or white.

No pricing information is available as of yet.

This one is big: numerous big telecoms around the world have finally agreed on a standard for voice and SMS communication over upcoming LTE 4G networks.

Dubbed One Voice, the new initiative defines an optimal set of
existing 3GPP-specified functions for designing compatible LTE devices. AT&T, Orange, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Verizon, Vodafone, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson are all in on the new standards.

The point is to ensure that next-generation LTE devices don’t just offer faster Web browsing and data services, but also work together properly for voice calls and text messaging. Otherwise, the entire market could fragment–and would make the U.S.’s GSM-versus-CDMA problem look like nothing.

Verizon is widely expected to be first with LTE deployments in the U.S. sometime in the second half of 2010.

The iPhone has arrived in China for the first time on China Unicom–but with a twist.

The Chinese government had initially insisted Apple remove Wi-Fi functionality from the device. By the time the government changed its mind earlier this year, the iPhone had already gone into production, as MacRumors reports.

As a result, the iPhone doesn’t have it on its introduction. It also comes in at a high price of $730 to $1025 (when converted from yuan to U.S. dollars), which is 20 percent higher than what unlocked iPhone 3GS models with Wi-Fi are selling for in Chinese street markets.