Samsung Mobile and U.S. Cellular announced the release of the new compact flip phone dubbed – Samsung Gloss. This highly fashionable mobile phone may seem purely eye candy, and yet it is packed with some good functional features. In fact, you would not even think that this tiny flip phone has a QWERTY keyboard which makes it ideal for heavy text message senders.The Samsung Gloss aka SCH-U440 boasts of a nifty 1.3 megapixel camera and music player and supports up to 16GB of external memory perfect for storing your music, pictures and video files.

By being released through US Cellular Network, the Samsung Gloss gets easy access to the network’s enhanced wireless data application services including easyedge. Easyedge gives users access to Your Navigator service with full voice turn by turn directions, news, and weather applications, games as well as other useful mobile applications.

For fans of mobile music tones, the Samsung Gloss is preloaded with US Cellular’s Tone Room which is a ringtone shop featuring digital music files. It also features CITY ID which is an enhanced Caller ID that displays the city and state of incoming callers.

Other features of the Samsung Gloss include Stereo Bluetooth and a 2.2″ CIF TFT display with landscape view.