Samsung introduce the I7500 the companys first Android based mobile phone.
The I7500 does have an 3.2 inch HVGA Amoled Display.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading mobile phone provider, today unveiled the I7500, its first Android-powered mobile phone. With a launch of I7500, Samsung became the first company among the global top three mobile phone manufacturers to unveil an Android-powered phone.
“Samsung is among the earliest members of the Open Handset Alliance and has been actively moving forward to introduce the most innovative Android mobile phone,” said JK Shin, Executive Vice President and Head of Mobile Communication Division in Samsung Electronics. “With Samsung’s accumulated technology leadership in mobile phone industry and our consistent strategy to support every existing operating system, I believe that Samsung provides the better choices and benefits to our consumers” he added.
The Samsung I7500 is a cutting-edge smartphone, featuring a 3.2″ AMOLED full touch screen and 7.2Mbps HSDPA and WiFi connectivity, giving users access to Google™ Mobile services and full web browsing at blazing speeds.
Samsung press release
The Samsung I7500 offers users access to the full suite of Google services, including Google Search™, Google Maps™, Gmail™, YouTube™, Google Calendar™, and Google Talk™. The integrated GPS receiver enables the comprehensive use of Google Maps features, such as My Location, Google Latitude, Street View, local search and detailed route description. Hundreds of other applications are available in Android Market. For example, the application Wikitude, a mobile travel guide, allows consumers to access details of unknown sights via location-based Wikipedia articles.
Based on Samsung’s proven product leadership, Samsung I7500 comes with latest multimedia features. The large and vivid 3.2″AMOLED display ensures the brilliant representation of multimedia content and enjoyable full touch mobile experience. Along with supporting a 5-megapixel camera and various multimedia codec formats, the I7500 also provides a long enough battery life (1500mAh) and generous memory capacity up to 40GB (Internal memory: 8GB, External memory: Up to 32GB) to enjoy all the applications and multimedia content. The phone also boasts its slim and compact design with mere 11.9mm thickness.
The Samsung I7500 will be available in major European countries from June, 2009.
Like the HTC Magic which will be available from Vodafone, the I7500 (not S8000 as rumored before) will be a touchscreen-only smartphone, running on Android 1.5 plus Google Mobile Services. It’s powered by a Qualcomm MSM7200A CPU at 528 MHz. The metal-body is only 11,9 mm thick. A 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and a standard 3.5 mm stereo headset plug is on board. The Samsung I7500 costs about 300 Euro and comes in June.
Technical Details Samsung I7500
- Android 1.5 (Cupcake)
- Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity
- Dual band UMTS/HSPA connectivity
- 3.2 inch OLED Display capacitive touchscreen display with HVGA (480 x 320) resolution
- GPS
- Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth
- 5MP camera with LED flash
- 3.5mm headset jack
- 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7200A CPU
- 8GB of internal memory
- MicroSD card support
between samsung android and iphone, iphone still works for me. android does like open source, iphone is mac ios and it rocks