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Samsung Android phone to hit the UK
PUNTERS IN THE UK will soon be able to get their hands on another Galaxy, as Samsung has announced the release of an Android smartphone by that name.
The I9000 Galaxy S, announced at the CTIA Wireless 2010 show in Las Vegas, will run the Android 2.1 OS. It has a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen and a 1GHz processor. The display will also have what Samsung touts as mDNIe (mobile Digital Natural Image engine) behind it, which it also uses on its LCD and LED TVs.
It also pushed this smartphone's ability to run augmented reality features with a Layar Reality Browser. This is the hot new technology in the mobile world where users can point a device at something real, with the mobile relaying information on its viewfinder. It will soon be expected that high-powered smartphones will carried this at a minimum, apparently.
So far British shoppers have only be been able to acquire a Samsung Android-capable device in the Samsung I7500. But other smartphone makers are hopping on the Android bandwagon and it remains to be seen whether Samsung can make an impact in a marketplace that is rapidly getting crowded with contenders.
Unfortunately Samsung hasn't yet come out with pricing or a date when its Galaxy smartphone will become available, but the company assures that these details will be announced shortly. µ
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They are like buses. You wait ages for one, and then about six come along at once.
Hot on the heels of the Sony Ericsson X10, LG's first in the GW620, HTC and its Legend and Desire plus Samsung's own Galaxy Portal now comes this beauty.
Again it's a Samsung. Again it's a Galaxy but this is codenamed the S and we've no idea why. It's hardly catchy.
But names aside, it's a stonker of a handset with a massive FOUR INCH display using the AMOLED technology which gives the screen high-definition quality, bright vivid colours and drains far less power so you get more talktime.
The Korean company will only reveal it will be out "soon" in Britain but that just means more time to get excited.
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Have to agree with Mike,
I have the i7500 and quite frankly am VERY dissapointed at samsungs lack of updated software. It's still running ver 1.5 of android (the very first release) and they've blankly refused to update to anything.
Looks like this new phone is the reason why! - I'd recommend HTC devices over samsung anyday
A word of warning before buying this fone. Do a google search for i7500 and see how happy owmers are with Samsung. Every sw release bteaks something else, really buggy & no communication. I will never buy samsung again. My new nexus one is a great replacement.
Who gives a crap about .3" of screen real estate? The resolution is still the same, and my eyesight is good. In fact, the samsung wave has a 3.3" screen @ 800x480, pity it runs bada and not android, otherwise i'd seriously consider buying it.
"So far British shoppers have only be been able to acquire a Samsung Android-capable device in the Samsung I7500."
Not true, I've got a Samsung Galaxy Portal i5700 (the i7500 baby brother ?), which I got from T-Mobile a month ago..
After the disappointment of Evo 4G/Supersonic only working on CDMA/RevA all we're left to chew on is the Galaxy S.
Looking at this phone's spec makes you only miss the .3" screen real estate you would've had on the HTC supersonic.
Sadly, the phone looks like an iphone ripoff and the interface reeks of iphone's UI too.
Here's to hoping HTC releases a Supersonic for UMTS/GSM markets