Samsung's SGH-i858 appears on FCC

A lot of cellphones pass through the FCC, but Samsung's new SGH-i858 looks a mite big promising if you ask us. It features tri-band GSM, EDGE data, a QVGA touchscreen, Bluetooth, mini-USB, MicroSD, and a 2 megapixel camera. No idea which OS this thing's gonna run; if we had to we'd guess either something proprietary, or perhaps Symbian with UIQ (though it'd still be unusual for Samsung to rock Symbian, even despite their partnering up with those peeps back in '03). Guess we'll have to wait and see, but once more, FCC, we tip our hats to you.

[Via PhoneArena]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 26th 2005 11:25AM]

I've checked out some japanese, chinese and korean sites and it seems that the operating system listed under these pages is Linux. Too bad it 5.0 :( Cool phone otherwize :D

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 27th 2005 6:42AM]

I'm not good in chinese ;) but I've saw some Linux too ... still not ENOUGH information.

AFAIK it is NEITHER Symbian (not any known interface) nor WINDOWS ... I thought it is Samsung OS for Touch-screens, but yes, it is possible to be Linux ..

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 28th 2005 9:45AM]

I was hoping it would run DOS mobile.