If having your cake and eating it too is just how you roll, you're probably the kind of hard-to-please son of a gun that wants a numeric slider keypad to go along with your phone's AMOLED WQVGA touchscreen. Wait, let us guess: you also want an 8 megapixel camera, AGPS with geotagging, integrated FM radio, stereo Bluetooth, and microSD support up to 16GB. And naturally, you want it all somehow magically packed into a shell measuring no more than 12.7mm thick. Well, guess what, sweet pea? Samsung's gone and called your bluff with the
rumored Ultra Touch S8300, earning itself an official announcement ahead of MWC -- and as long as a real smartphone OS isn't on your shopping list, this 7.2Mbps HSDPA monster should fit the bill. We don't have launch territories or pricing just yet, but see that little "Barcelona" on the weather widget there? Yeah, we suspect we'll be seeing plenty of this one on the Mobile World Congress show floor.
posted Feb 9th 2009 2:59AM
Why thank you, honey bun. ;)
You do know 'meld' isn't actually a word, right? Someone's been watching too much Star Trek.
It's a perfectly cromulent word...
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meld%5B3%5D
Third usage: verb, to merge or blend
i wonder how many people will get that ^
Why are we skipping over the biggest problem with this post? One cannot watch too much Star Trek!
That is a bootlicious haul of techno-crammage
if you know what i mean....
I totally agree
With the release of all these new Samsung units -- It's clear the trio of HTC/Nokia/Samsung has now
positioned themselves as the world dominant "TRIO" of all phones.
With the "feature set" of these phones now out in the open, it's obviously clear, the new buzz-word will
be "HTC/Nokia/Samsung KILLER".
@Bigpinekey
I wuz thinking the same thing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How quickly Apple's cheap plastic construction materials and lackluster
features has reduced it to nothing more than yesterdays novelty phone.
You did bring up a very important point = construction materials
Apple chose to use El Cheapo plastic to further reuduce the price of their iPhone.
Not exactly a smart move, as who dosn't drop their phone from time-to-time.
Now that the Fab Cycle of iPhone ownership has seriously gone way past its
initial surge, it's now found its product placed in the $99 dollar discount rack.
Quality constructed cellphones, with far superior feature/benifit set has raised
the bar for the future of phones. Novelty "Hipster" phones has already played
out and soon to be nothing but last years news.
You know it is pretty said when a company releases a product who's overall design is nice, but because they didn't give us everything we wanted on the first one they release a second one that has everything we want and then they go and skimp on quality.
Oh yeah and that is one hawt looking phone.
Tarnation
You do have to wonder......don't ya ? In a time when most all "TOP TIER" Mfg's are using
top of the line metals and composites, the KOOL-AIDE drinkers get delivered an updated model
utilizing the cheapest of all materials = ABS Plastic. It wuz like Apple knew the sheep would
buy what-ever was given to um......and they did.
Awesome phone with horrible screen resolution. Even LG Arena has 800x480 instead of 400x240. Nokia 5800 has 640x360.
400x240 just won't do.
but its AMOLED, which has 2 more letters than regular OLED
There's no way for us to evaluate that, since Engadget stupidly uses non-terms like "WQVGA" instead of just saying what the resolution is. That saves what, two characters? Apparently they're serving the site on dial-up.
WQVGA = Wide Quad-VGA. VGA is 640x480. WVGA is usually 800x480 or 848x480. Its easy to remember.
And ignore my comment about screen resolution. Its 2.8 inches, so consider it a normal screen resolution for a wide screen of this size. But the price is horrible.
Win.
what about the "DivX playback and an "anti-scratch / anti-fingerprint coated duraluminium chassis."" and a black with orange trim colour scheme
as show here http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/samsungs-s8300-slider-packs-amoled-display-8-megapixel-camera?icid=sphere_blogsmith_inpage_engadget
Here much more info:
http://www.mobile-review.com/review/samsung-s8300.shtml
Nice one, Oleg! Posting a link to Russian-language review on US page!
http://www.mobile-review.com/review/samsung-s8300-en.shtml
Same page in English
I think it's more of a "burnt pepper" trim ...
Ah yes, the moronic "slider" design persists, against all common sense. So what, exactly, are we doing with the wasted bulk that resides on the sliding portion behind the screen?
Yep: nothing. Good design!
You meant the bit of the phone that contains the logic board with the processor, memory, controllers, and various other pieces of hardware that you know... make the phone work, what wasted space!
It isn't a bad design, sizes are
110x51.5x12.7 (in mm)
So its slim and not too big. Perfect size for a phone with a large screen.
Yes, wasted space. Note how the G1, despite its other failings, manages to use the surface of that enclosure for a LARGE KEYBOARD. Keyboards are relatively thin, and can reside of the surface of the battery/circuitry compartment.
Crappy battery life?
Mobile-Review.com has the battery at 880 mAh...o_o
If Omnia is anything, its battery life was better than many phones'. So I would guess at least 4-5 hours of normal usages. Probably 2-3 on videos
could this be the 8mp camera that is rumored to be coming to tmobile?
I will never buy another Samsung phone that has that stupid dual purpose connector again. It's unbelievably annoying.
Perfect timing! I was just looking for a phone.
Are you sure it's not a Sumsang?
How come I get the feeling that if this had a Smartphone UI and 3.5mm Headphone socket, this would be the current generation's N95?
Sorry but it has just gotten its ass kicked by the new SE Hikaru that was unveiled today - the same specs but with metallic construction to boot.
Now if only they made it a WinMo/Android smartphone.......
wow. that's sexy. i just have a thing for a slider.