Samsung has announced a new phone, Samsung S5620 and Monte, the company intends to present at the event in Barcelona.

3 inch LCD screen, 3.2 MP camera, wireless option and microSD card slot up to 16GB are just some of the arguments that Monte uses to attract young people. The phone is focused on socialization and has applications for Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Bebo and other instant messaging networks.

Web browsing is improved by the existence of the accelerometer that rotates the picture with your phone. Monte includes support for Google’s GPS Latitude, as well as Exchange ActiveSync and GoogleSync.

Price was not mentioned, but Sony will have time to present the phone in detail and provides information on the marketing of the Mobile World Congress which will take place in Barcelona between 15-18 February.

Nimbuzz announces the UK launch of an application to provide mobile users and online communities with “free calls, chat and more.” Nimbuzz offers an all-in-one solution for free mobile VoIP calling, instant messaging, conference calling, chat and group chat, and photo or file sending across multiple IM communities, including MSN, Skype, Google Talk, Yahoo!, Jabber, AIM and ICQ, plus 23 social networks, including Facebook and Myspace.

Once users download the Nimbuzz application for the mobile and register as a new user, contacts from their selected IM communities are aggregated into a single contact list with icons indicating real-time “presence” which means contacts are online or offline and from which communities below.

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