(CeBIT 2006, Samsung announces 10 Megapixel SCH-B600 Cameraphone)
Samsung conducts aggressive cameraphones strategy :
in 2004 Samsung unveiled their 5-megapixel camera phone,
in 2005 Samsung launched the first 7-megapixel and 8-megapixel camera phones,
and now, at CeBIT 2006, we have an opportunity to play with new Samsung’s SCH-B600,
the first 10-megapixel camera phone. This time it not only delightful numbers - it is a device with all properties of the good digital camera , such as 3x optical zoom/5x digital zoom, flash, auto-focus and a self-timer.
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After successful start of the first phone featuring “Plug & Play Files-to-go” (SGH-i300 ) at March 11th, 2005, Samsung Electronics announced first 8 GB HDD embedded music phone. New Samsung SGH-i310 model is successor of the SGH-i300.
“Plug & Play Files-to-go” technology allows the handset to be used as a removable hard disk drive, that means an opportunity to store and transfer files in any format .

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“Kaspersky’s laboratory”, the Russian developer of systems for protection against viruses, trojan programs and a spam, informs on detection of the first nocuous program for the mobile phones, capable to execute Java-appendices (J2ME).
The Trojan spreads in the guise of a J2ME application “RedBrowser”, which promise to enable the user to visit WAP sites without using a GPRS connection. Trojan’s author says , that it is realized by sending and reception of free-of-charge SMS-messages. Actually the Trojan sends SMSs to some premium paid mobile services, at a rate of $5 - $6 per each of such a messege.
Trojan program has received name Trojan-SMS.J2ME.RedBrowser.a (by classification of virus analysts of the company).
The Trojan is a J2ME application,  may be called “redbrowser.jar”, and is 54482 bytes in size.
The Trojan can be downloaded and installed to the victim device either via the Internet (from a WAP site) or via Bluetooth or from PC.

The Jar-archive contains :
* FS.class - auxiliary file (2719 bytes in size)
* FW.class - auxiliary file (2664 bytes in size)
* icon.png - graphics file (3165 bytes in size)
* logo101.png - graphics file (16829 bytes in size)
* logo128.pnh - graphics file (27375 bytes in size)
* M.class - interface file (5339 bytes in size)
* SM.class - Trojan application which sends SMS messages (1945 bytes in size)

The user is able to remove this trojan by using the standard “Remove application” utility of his phone.