More details on Samsung's t819 3G slider for T-Mobile

It looks like T-Mobile had a change of heart about the coloring of its next 3G device -- Samsung's t819 slider -- after it hit the FCC recently, changing from a rather lovely medium blue to "coffee brown." That got us to thinking: does a phone have to go back through the FCC when it changes color? Probably not; in fact, we can think of plenty of examples to the contrary. That seems a little odd considering that color formulations could almost certainly affect SAR ratings, but whatevs -- point is, Boy Genius Report has a little more info on the midrange slider now. Besides the aforementioned color change, we now know that T-Mobile expects to start offloading this bad boy come January. Whether the carrier will actually start to admit that its 3G phones are 3G by then... well, that's another story entirely.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2007 6:19PM]

they need to stop making phones with the 1.3 camera step up their game

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2007 7:38PM]

agreed, they also need to stop making phones in Zune-like colors that no one wants. can we get a basic black, please? thanks.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2007 7:23PM]

This phone comes in black. (I have one and it's very purdy).

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2007 8:01PM]

Color affects SAR????? What crack pipe did you hit off of? It isn't the color, it is the material, which won't change just because of a different dye in the injection process.

I agree on the color sucking, crap brown has hit three phones in a row, shadow, sidekick LX and now this....who they got selecting these (lack of) colors must be blind....

The network won't be on for about a year, so why admitting it is 3G is important, I have no clue. The thing can't roam, only works in US.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 20th 2007 12:26AM]

The front part of the slider is shiny metallic the surface the fcc used was blue, so it reflected blue... the surface t-mobile must have used to photo their picture must have been brown. it doesn't seem to be a change of colow, just reflection