Way back in the mists of Series 60 time when the only realistic phone choices were the Nokia 7650, 3650 and the Siemens SX1, Samsung announced their first Symbian Series 60 phone, the SGH-D700. It was the first Series 60 flip-phone, and looked pretty interesting, but for one reason or another it never shipped and the world moved on.

Samsung then announced another Series 60 phone the Samsung SGH-D710, again it was innovative, being a slider rather like the much loved but aged Nokia 7650. As before, it looked pretty interesting, but for one reason or another it never shipped and the world moved on.

Lo and behold, Samsung then announced a third Series 60 phone the Samsung SGH-D720, which being on the face of it a revamped D710 looked pretty interesting... Do you spot a theme here?

A year or so after the first news of the D720 appeared the Samsung SGH-D730 has been announced, this time it's getting some column inches and apparantly it will be available in Germany very soon. I suspect it will be on the Vodafone network first as they seem to have the biggest take-up of non-Nokia Series 60 phones, having already offered the Sendo X and Panasonic X700 to their customers.

Fourth time lucky? Who knows? It doesn't appear to offer much more than the say the X700 or Nokia 7610, both of which are getting long in the tooth. Still it looks pretty interesting...