"Samsung Mobile is excited to launch the first handset to integrate with the innovative new Cricket Muve Music service," said Paul Golden, chief marketing officer for Samsung Mobile. . "When you combine the handset's sleek design and impressive feature set, such as the dedicated Muve Music button, the Samsung Suede is a device poised to redefine how people engage with a mobile music service."
A slim, stylish full-featured messaging phone, the Suede is designed with a 3-inch touch screen display, virtual QWERTY keyboard and an easy-to-navigate user interface. The Suede features a dedicated Muve Music button, which provides Cricket customers with one-touch access to download music instantly over Cricket's 3G network. Cricket customers do not need a computer to use the Muve Music service. The Suede's user interface features with customizable widgets, for instant access to popular social networking sites such as FacebookTM, MySpaceTM and TwitterTM. In addition, the handset boasts an HTML web browser for fast downloads of music, video and news content, access to the Samsung Widget store and location-based services.
The Suede offers users a full messaging suite including SMS and MMS, along with a music player with microSDTM card support, accelerometer, 3.0 megapixel camera and camcorder and 135MB of internal memory with up to 16GB of expandable memory.
The Samsung Suede with the Cricket Muve Music service will be available at select Cricket Wireless stores beginning in January 2011. The Cricket unlimited plan including Muve Music is $55 per month while the Samsung Suede has a M.S.R.P. of $199.