Samsung Telecommunications America announced the availability of its Samsung (News - Alert) Suede mobile phone handset or SCH-r710 in January 2011. This handset will feature the new Cricket Muve Music service.

Also, the new wireless rate plan will include a music experience designed specifically for the mobile phone. This offers Cricket customers unlimited access to millions of songs, ringtones and ringback tones, besides unlimited access to voice, Web, text, video and other features across Cricket’s nationwide 3G network.

In a press release, Paul Golden, chief marketing officer for Samsung Mobile, said, “Samsung Mobile is excited to launch the first handset to integrate with the innovative new Cricket Muve Music service.”

“When you combine the handset’s sleek design and impressive feature set, such as the dedicated Muve Music button, the Samsung Suede is a device poised to redefine how people engage with a mobile music service,” Golden added.

The Suede is a slim, stylish full-featured messaging phone, which is designed with a 3-inch touch screen display, virtual QWERTY keyboard and an easy-to-navigate user interface. The Suede also features a dedicated Muve Music button, which provides a one-touch access to download music instantly over Cricket’s 3G network.

According to company sources Cricket customers do not need a computer to use the Muve Music service. The Suede’s user interface features customizable widgets, to offer instant access to popular social networking sites like Facebook (News - Alert), MySpace and Twitter.

Also the handset boasts an HTML Web browser which enables fast downloads of music, video and news content, access to the Samsung Widget store and other location-based services.

The Suede offers users a full messaging suite that includes SMS and MMS, along with a music player with microSD card support, accelerometer, 3.0 megapixel camera and camcorder and 135MB of internal memory with up to 16GB of expandable memory.

The Samsung Suede with the Cricket Muve Music service will be available at select Cricket Wireless stores beginning in January 2011, added company sources.

Company officials revealed that the Cricket unlimited plan including Muve Music will be available for $55 per month while the Samsung Suede comes at an M.S.R.P. of $199.