Samsung's SGH-i400 goes Symbian S60

by Thomas Ricker, posted Apr 25th 2007 at 5:23AM

Symbian is back in the news this morning after another night of promiscuity. Having been spotted shacking-up with with LG and Google just yesterday, the Nokia bedfellow was just outed with this cutie, Samsung's new SGH-i400 smartphone. It's not the first Samsung S60 slider we've seen, nor will it be the last. In addition to some pretty bold "symbian OS" branding in the upper-right corner, the i400 brings a regular ol' 2 megapixel camera, dedicated MP3 key, stereo speakers, A2DP Bluetooth, MicroSD expansion, and support for full web browsing on its 2.3-inch "wide display." No word on a 3G radio here so we'll have to assume the worst (tri-band GSM/EDGE). We do know that it'll make its debut in Russia in July and then "other European countries" shortly thereafter. Hey Russia, welcome to Europe!

Filed under: Cellphones

Tags: i400, russia, s60, samsung, sgh-i400, slider, symbian

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Chrisphillers @ Apr 25th 2007 6:00AM

Finally a Samsung with a decent OS! I definitely will consider buying these.

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CB @ Apr 25th 2007 7:11AM

Was nice till no 3G..Oh and lots of Russia is Europe .in fact the highest mountain in Europe is in Russia...work that out.

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Rich @ Apr 25th 2007 7:45AM

If you want 3G, go for its HSDPA brother - the SGH-i520.

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Dan @ Apr 25th 2007 7:11AM

A huge portion of Russia is European. Russia is a transcontinental nation. See this UN map of European regions here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Location-Europe-UNsubregions.png

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Kev50027 @ Apr 25th 2007 1:27PM

Still sucks compared to the Nokia N80, which was released a long time ago (almost a year i think)

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Alan @ Apr 25th 2007 1:29PM

Don't be so critical of the dude. When people think of "Europe" they think of Western Europe. Eastern Europe has a different connotation to it. Although most Russians love to call themselves European and have a fixation with everything French. Russian culture and food is very much influenced by Asia. And since the majority of the country is in Asia, it is very easy to see how one could exclude Russia from "Europe."

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PeteC @ Apr 26th 2007 12:33PM

I think this looks very nice, I'll be interested in seeing how it performs. RE the N80 comment, I had one of those and the battery was atrocious so if this has a reasonable battery life then this would be an improvement over the N80 I'd say. It certainly looks better but it'll take a lot for me to get a non-Nokia phone, I'm quite stuck in my ways.

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