December 2, 1999 Web posted at: 9:25 a.m. EST (1425 GMT) by Martyn Williams

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(IDG) -- Samsung Electronics has developed a new cellular telephone with built-in television, the company has announced. Company officials say they expect it to hit the local market sometime in 2000.

The SCH-M220 features a 1.8 inch TFT (thin film transistor) LCD (liquid crystal display) which doubles as the main display for the telephone and the television screen.

A built-in tuner gives the user access to VHF and UHF broadcasts with a touch of the unit's TV button. The unit automatically reverts to phone mode if a call is incoming.

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All of this comes without much sacrifice to battery life. The company says the unit, with a high capacity battery on a full charge, has a standby time of 180 hours, continuous talk time of 170 minutes and the TV can be viewed for 200 minutes.

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The unit is the fourth such innovative mobile phone from Samsung this year. The company has also demonstrated a combined cellular phone and MP3 audio player, a cellular telephone built into a wristwatch and a cellular phone with touchscreen that features integrated Internet access.