Samsung launches its first Android phone
SAMSUNG ANNOUNCED its first phone running Google's Android OS today, becoming the first of the top three handset manufacturers to release an Android powered smartphone.
The Korean company's I7500 model offers an array of cutting-edge smartphone features, with a 3.2-inch, 320x480-pixel HVGA active-matrix organic LED touch-screen, EDGE and GPRS cellular phone network communications, 3G 7.2 Mbps HSDPA with 5.7Mbps HSUPA mobile data transmission, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 data networking, a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, USB 2.0 and MicroUSB connectors plus a 3.5mm earbud jack, 8GB internal memory supplemented with a microSD slot for up to 32GB of removable memory, and a slim Iphone-like physical package measuring 115mm tall by 56mm wide and 11.9mm thick.
The I7500 supports a variety of media formats including MPEG4, H.263/4, and WMV video and MP3, (e)AAC/+, WMA and RA audio, and offers access to Google's full suite of mobile computing services, including Gmail, Youtube, Google Search, Google Maps, Google Talk and Google Calendar.
It has an integrated GPS receiver that enables use of Google Maps features, including My Location, Google Latitude, Google Street View, as well as local information search and route directions.
It can also download and run hundreds of other software applications available either free or for sale in Google's Android Market applications store.
Samsung says its I7500 Android powered smartphone will be available in major European countries starting in June. O2 announced June availability of the I7500 in Germany today. µ
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OLED Screen? I guess I'm not aware of any other phone that has an OLED screen? Although, I haven't really been following all that closely either, so I'm sure I'll be flamed on how dozens of others pack OLED screens as well.
It's kinda sad that the first thing that popped into my head when I read about all the features/functiions it has was - "Yeah, all that and a battery life of about ten minutes if you actually try to USE all these bells and whistles."
I sincerely hope this puppy comes with a capacitive screen!
@Chronicle Lots of capacitance, it's HVGA silly. Don't be giving us no resistance you silly electron.
@Andy4504
My phone has an oled screen:
http://www.au.kddi.com/au_design_project/seihin/mediaskin/main.html
It was a curiosity back when I got it a year or so ago, but the 3.2" oled screens are fairly widely adopted in the latest Japanese models.
The specs are really nice. The only question will be the price tag. Remember that except the 5MP camera, Nokia's 5800 comes at the same specs group, and it's around 300euros. Samsung allready has touch screen phones in forms of INNOV8 and Omnia. If they manage to squeeze this phone in 300-400 euros price range, it will be sweet. If it's above 400 euros, I don't believe it will make any serious market success.
"MP3, (e)AAC/+, WMA and RA audio"
Rats! No OGG/Vorbis? :'( Oh well, hopefully third-party app/later version will fix that.
This sure beats the butt ugly G1 and the HTC Magic for looks.
Looks aside, Samsung seems to be positioning itself well in the smartphone market. This i7500 and the i8910 (Omnia HD) are at the top of my list at the moment.
Anyone care to debate the pluses and minuses between Android and Symbian, or specifically between the above two mentioned phones?
Can it run Tomtom, Outlook, Excel?
Google maps, does this come on a single file yet, or is it constant data download needing a data package?
I want an "on a card" solution like Tomtom. Do Google phones do this?