Samsung has said here at Mobile World Congress that their theme for the show is touch, and that they’re aggressively promoting their TouchWiz overlay for Windows Mobile. (For more on TouchWiz, check out our review of Verizon Wireless’s Samsung Omnia.)
So I was surprised to go to Microsoft’s booth and find the Samsung Valencia, a TouchWiz smartphone – without touch! This non-touch-screen phone uses a variant of TouchWiz that includes a menu/widget bar in the left hand column, but you navigate through it using the phone’s cursor pad. Other touch-like features include photo speed dial and what appeared to be support for Internet-based widgets.
According to Microsoft, the Valencia has a 393 Mhz processor, a 2-megapixel camera, 128MB of RAM, a 320×240 screen, GPS, Bluetooth, 3G, Windows Mobile 6.1 and “20GB of storage,” which must be some sort of typo.
Samsung did not release any details about the Valencia.
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