A new TouchWiz UI certainly is just the tip of the iceberg as Samsung continues to prepare for MWC by making its announcements a week in advance. Next up… A sexy new ultra-thin 8 megapixel slider. The Samsung UltraTOUCH S8300 touts a 2.8-inch AMOLED, anti-scratch, anti-smudge touchscreen that dominates the front of this 12.7mm thin handset. Samsung’s upgraded TouchWiz interface is present and accounted for, as is an 8 megapixel camera with dual LED flash and 30fps VGA video recording, HSDPA at 7.2...

Reportedly slated for released in March of 2009, the Samsung S8300 has just been served its first spoonful of leaky goodness as images and preliminary specs trickle out into the internet. First things first, it’s not pretty. We’re going to have to keep our fingers crossed for a few color options because orange and black only works one day each year. To make matters worse, the back of the handset, when slid open, reveals a pretty tacky cross hatch pattern that might be ok for a temporary mobile wal...