O2 UK has released the Samsung S8000 Ultra Edition feature phone. The device is free with £15 ($22.94) per month 2-year contract. Moreover, it comes with an 18-month contract with a £20 ($30.59) per month plan. The Samsung S8000 Ultra Edition boasts of a lot of features including an 800MHz processor, a 5 megapixel camera, and Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface.

Samsung has just announced that the Android 2.1 is now available for the I5700 Galaxy Spica smartphone. To date, users can improve their handset with the help Samsung’s PC Studio 7 software that is accessible from www.samsungmobile.com. Android 2.1 includes pinch-to-zoom inside its browser, gallery, and maps application. The Android 2.1 also includes enhancements to homescreen widgets, an extra eye-catching main menu, and many more.

Samsung has just unveiled the SCH-r351 Freeform for U.S. Cellular. The handset comes in a burgundy color, and boasts of a four row QWERTY keyboard, a 1.3 megapixel camera, and a 2.2-inch QCIF display. The 55.9mm x 112.2mm x 12.7mm (2.2in x 4.42in x .5in) and 95.2g (3.63oz) feature phone also features music playback capabilities such as playlist functionality. It also carries Bluetooth as well as a memory that is expandable up to 16GB with a microSD card. It has up to 6 hours of talk time. However, pricing and availability has not yet been disclosed.

MetroPCS has launched the Samsung SCH-r860 Caliber, a feature phone with a 3.2-inch WQVGA touchscreen. The (2.2in x 4.5in x 0.47in) and (3.75oz) Caliber comes prepared with a 3 megapixel camera, support for 16GB microSD cards, a jam-packed HTML Web browser, Bluetooth, advanced voice recognition, MetroNavigator GPS support, and a 1080mAh battery. It support’s MetroPC’s EV-DO Rev.0 3G network. MetroPCS will begin selling the Caliber today for $249 online and in MetroPCS stores.

The Monte has been launched by Samsung. Packaged as a feature phone, the Monte carries a touch screen with TouchWiz 2.0 Plus user interface and offers quick access to social network applications like Facebook and MySpace. It measure 108.8mm x 53.7mm x 12.44mm (4.2in x 2.1in x .48in), and comes with a 3-inch WQVGA capacitive touch screen display, a 3.2MP camera, aGPS, WiFi, Google Maps 3.0, 200MB of internal memory, and a microSD card slot for adding up to 16GB of additional storage. For email and calendar accounts, the Monte offers Exchange ActiveSync and Google Sync support.