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Verizon quietly launched the Samsung SCH-a970 through Best Buy a while back. This is a BREW 2.1.3 handset with nearly 6MB of RAM, about 60MB of storage, and has TransFlash support. It has a standard 176x220 resolution display on a swivel type screen for using it's 2.0 megapixel camera along the camera hinge axis. More data can be found on the QUALCOMM datasheet here (QUALCOMM BREW extranet access required).

In addition, Verizon launched the Samsung SCH-a850 a couple of weeks back. It is also a BREW 2.1.3 handset, but it is a lower end handset with only about 4MB of storage and about 2MB of RAM and a 128x160 screen resolution. Again, more information can be found on the data sheet here (QUALCOMM BREW extranet access required).

Finally, Verizon has done an online launched today of the Samsung SCH-a950 handset. It also features BREW 2.1.3 and has a 176x220 resolution display. It has about 45MB of storage and about 6MB of RAM also with TransFlash support. However, it has a lower resolution 1.3 MP camera, but it does feature a jog dial on the outside in addition to 4 media player buttons. Once again, more information can be found on the QUALCOMM extranet's data sheet here.

Samsung SCH-a950