Samsung announces S60-powered SGH-i520

Nokia gets the lion's share of the attention when it comes to the S60 platform and Symbian generally -- perhaps rightfully so, considering they ship far more Symbian-based smartphones than any other vendor -- but Samsung would like to politely remind everyone that they're an S60 licensee, too. Their latest effort, the SGH-i520 slider, had its coming-out party this week at the Symbian Smartphone Show, and the spec sheet looks to give Nokia's E- and N-series multimedia powerhouses an honest-to-goodness run for their money. The typical 2-megapixel camera and QVGA display aside, the i520 packs an HSDPA radio -- something no released Nokia handset has managed to do; granted, the N95 does it, but we've got a little wait ahead of us for that monster. Lucky owners also get a microSD slot should they find the 45MB of usable storage a bit light, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, and a front-facing VGA shooter for those ever-popular video calls. Per protocol, it doesn't seem that a US launch is in the works, but one can never be sure; stranger things have happened.

[granny down east @ Oct 18th 2006 1:38AM]

Thank God we don't have to endure "that's one hot Asian chick" comments for this post.

[Edward @ Oct 18th 2006 1:53AM]

That is one hot non-Korean gurl!
...
The perspective of that photo makes the phones look gigantic, btw.

[Anil Passi @ Oct 18th 2006 2:55AM]

I have been early adopter of Symbian o/s in past but I hate to say that
I prefer Windows Mobile o/S. XDA Exec works like a charm(it has windows mobile o/s 5.0)

Anil Passi
http://oracle.anilpassi.com

[tehuberone @ Oct 18th 2006 3:26AM]

that's one hot Asian chick

just for you, granny down east

[Richard @ Oct 18th 2006 4:34AM]

LG have also announced a new Symbian S60 phone - the JoY.

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/4438_Official_LG_Electronics_Introd.php

So that's all five of the top manufacturers using Symbian!

[engdgt.9.nikster @ Oct 18th 2006 5:49AM]

I am using a Nokia Symbian and I am not that impressed. It's Oh-key, but has a lot of annoyances and the user interface is definitely inferior to the old bare-bones Nokias. It definitely doesn't feel like it's the s*** for mobile apps.

The one thing I don't get about Samsung phones is the text on the center button. It's OK to not have any text on this, for chrissake! I never bought a Samsung because they had the retarded italics-i on the center button. Both an eye-sore and completely useless if internet on the phone is A) extremely expensive and B) completely useless.

Now they finally got rid of the "i", but replaced it with "OK". Why, oh why? Especially since the rest of the Samsung phones have a very nice design.

PS: That's one hot caucasian chick!

[Eric @ Oct 18th 2006 8:04AM]

So is Motorola gonna follow suit or they gonna stick with their crappy interface that a lot of ppl hate?

[Richard @ Oct 18th 2006 11:22AM]

Sorry, that "model" (and I do use that term loosely) is neither hot nor Asian. The sideburns and eyebrows are just a tad too mannish. Yuck.

[Nevermind the DRM @ Oct 18th 2006 11:26AM]

That is one hot hearing impaired vaguely middle eastern chick!

[Andrei Vassiliev @ Oct 18th 2006 12:36PM]

lol, you know you'd still tap that. And steal both of those phones.

[Tyler @ Oct 18th 2006 12:22PM]

bluetooth headset maybe?

[BurnZ @ Oct 18th 2006 12:31PM]

Thats a tracking clip... like they put on Bears and what-not.

[brooke r. @ Oct 19th 2006 3:34AM]

No way... that's totally a new iPod shuffle clip on isn't it?

[Bob @ Aug 14th 2007 3:53PM]

Will this phone works with SymSMB 2.00?