Samsung Champ To Be Cheapest Samsung Touchscreen Phone Yet

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It isn’t the Samsung Galaxy S, but the Samsung Champ is another offering in Samsung’s long tradition of these small and cheap featurephones that feature (no pun intended) touchscreens. Their newest is the Samsung Champ, and it looks to be the cheapest of the cheap, as it will only reportedly cost between $100 and $150 without contract.

The Champ will probably be free with contract on most carriers, and well, it looks like it. It will be running Samsung’s TouchWiz and will have a 2.4-inch screen (for those playing at home, that’s 1.1-inches smaller than the iPhone. This thing is a real pocket racer).

It will have a 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.1 support, a microSD card slot, and it will be able to access the “Samsung Apps” store, which isn’t as intuitive and doesn’t offer as good a selection as the iPhone, Andorid, BlackBerry, etc. stores.

Samsung will aim this little device at ‘emerging markets’ including Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America. Samsung (or at least the carriers who sell these phones) like to push them off on unknowing customers as iPhone-grade smartphone competitors, which they really aren’t.

Nothing on the release date, but again, the unlocked price is allegedly between $100 and $150. The Champ will also becoming in different colors, including black, white, brown and pink.