Samsung brings SGH-P200 UMA phone to Italy

by Chris Ziegler, posted Jul 19th 2006 at 1:09AM

We've been pining after Unlicensed Mobile Access and the promise of seamless VoIP / cellular handoffs for so long, we've admittedly become a little jaded, so forgive us if we seem a bit desensitized to the news that Samsung has launched its SGH-P200 UMA slider in Italy this week. Samsung's claiming that the P200 is the world's first commercially available UMA mobile, and we're inclined to believe them, despite a string of promising announcements over the past couple years that have yet to materialize. UMA aside, the P200 sports a 1.3 megapixel camera, EDGE, smallish 220 x 176 display, and 80MB of shared internal memory in a 22.5mm thick package -- fairly pedestrian specs, but hey, the draw of VoIP is strong, is it not? Expect the phone to spread elsewhere in Europe shortly, while our American friends shouldn't have much longer to wait for the similarly styled T709 on T-Mobile.

Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless

Tags: europe, italy, p200, samsung, sgh-p200, sgh-t709, t709, uma, unlicensed mobile access, UnlicensedMobileAccess, voip

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Keith L. Dick @ Jul 19th 2006 2:02AM

Ya know I like my Coffee in the morning...

I like looking out the window and seeing the sun and the trees just after getting out of bed...

I kinda get a kick when the *Real* phone rings and it's Mom...

The *Real* Newspaper I no longer read...

I do like clicking the Remote and seeing the News on the TV...

Work still sucks but some of this world is a tiny bit better, just not the *Bits or even Bytes* that I wish were better...

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Matt @ Jul 19th 2006 10:57AM

It's too thick. ~0.9 in.

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Tellion @ Jul 20th 2006 8:32AM

Looks better then the Nokia 6136 with UMA. Hope i can test this phone soon.

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