Samsung I7500 with OLED touchscreen powered by Android, dreams
By Thomas Ricker 
posted April 27th 2009 5:49AM
posted April 27th 2009 5:49AM
Anticipated for months, Samsung's first Android phone is finally a (paper) reality after being flushed through the rumor mill just hours ago. Launching "in major European countries from June," the 11.9-mm slim quad-band GSM, tri-band 7.2Mbps HSDPA (900/1700/2100MHz) candybar packs a 3.2-inch, 320 x 480 pixel AMOLED touchscreen, WiFi, GPS, 5 megapixel camera with Power LED, 1,500mAh battery, 8GB of storage (plus MicroSD expansion for up to 32GB more), and a standard 3.5mm heasdset jack. Step aside HTC, you had your chance, let's all welcome Samsung to the Android party. Another picture and full press release after the break.
P.S. Although no US announcements have been made, that 1700MHz HSPA frequency could make T-Mobile USA customers very happy.
P.S. Although no US announcements have been made, that 1700MHz HSPA frequency could make T-Mobile USA customers very happy.
April 27, 2009, Seoul, Korea - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading mobile phone provider, today unveiled the I7500, its first Android-powered mobile phone. With a launch of I7500, Samsung became the first company among the global top three mobile phone manufacturers to unveil an Android-powered phone.
"Samsung is among the earliest members of the Open Handset Alliance and has been actively moving forward to introduce the most innovative Android mobile phone," said JK Shin, Executive Vice President and Head of Mobile Communication Division in Samsung Electronics. "With Samsung's accumulated technology leadership in mobile phone industry and our consistent strategy to support every existing operating system, I believe that Samsung provides the better choices and benefits to our consumers" he added.
The Samsung I7500 is a cutting-edge smartphone, featuring a 3.2" AMOLED full touch screen and 7.2Mbps HSDPA and WiFi connectivity, giving users access to Google™ Mobile services and full web browsing at blazing speeds.
The Samsung I7500 offers users access to the full suite of Google services, including Google Search™, Google Maps™, Gmail™, YouTube™, Google Calendar™, and Google Talk™. The integrated GPS receiver enables the comprehensive use of Google Maps features, such as My Location, Google Latitude, Street View, local search and detailed route description. Hundreds of other applications are available in Android Market. For example, the application Wikitude, a mobile travel guide, allows consumers to access details of unknown sights via location-based Wikipedia articles.
Based on Samsung's proven product leadership, Samsung I7500 comes with latest multimedia features. The large and vivid 3.2"AMOLED display ensures the brilliant representation of multimedia content and enjoyable full touch mobile experience. Along with supporting a 5-megapixel camera and various multimedia codec formats, the I7500 also provides a long enough battery life (1500mAh) and generous memory capacity up to 40GB (Internal memory: 8GB, External memory: Up to 32GB) to enjoy all the applications and multimedia content. The phone also boasts its slim and compact design with mere 11.9mm thickness.
The Samsung I7500 will be available in major European countries from June, 2009.
HSDPA 7.2Mbps / HSUPA 5.76Mbps (900 / 1700/ 2100MHz)
EDGE / GPRS (850/ 900/1800/1900)
OS
Android
Display
3.2" HVGA(320x480) AMOLED
Camera
5 MP Camera (Auto Focus), Power LED
Video / Audio
Video: MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV
Audio: MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, RA
Value Added
Features
Full Web Browser Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Android Market
Connectivity
Bluetooth® 2.0, USB 2.0, WiFi, MicroUSB, 3.5mm ear jack
Memory
Internal memory: 8GB
External memory: Micro SD (Up to 32GB)
Battery
1500 mAh
Size
115 x 56 x 11.9mm
* Google, Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Calendar, Google Talk are trademarks of Google Inc.
Fucking Christ, Samsung. Release a NA model, too, for those of us on AT&T and Rogers (and soon, Bell and Telus, too.)
It is a NA model. It has AWS, which is a North American 3G format (T-Mobile US). Looks like AT&T got snubbed on this one.
No, it's a European model with support for T-Mobile's NA 3G band. A true NAM would include support for 1900/850, as they're the frequencies most widely used in Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. You know, North America.
Android is doing great!!
"Make an app for Android" is in my ToDo list!
Really looking forward to it.....
Gawd I sure hope that Samsung is using the microUSB jack as the main charging port instead of their normal (patheticly) proprietary jack.
Let me stop for a second and warmly ponder the fact that this baby actually *has* both a 3.5mm headphone jack AND a microUSB jack! Finally Samsung! (Both versions of your Blackjack missed the big picture when it came to jacks.)
Oh yes, this will be mine. P-)
Its about time samsung ditched their crappy os
I like it but it just doesn't feel right with out the physical keyboard.
"The [AMOLED] display is very difficult to view in sunlight." --SimbaDogg
That's too bad considering that this product is a mobile phone, which is likely to be used outdoors a great deal. The iPhone screen (480 x 320 LCD) is already hard enough to view in bright sunlight.
OMG, for the first time I have some serious phone lust. Please Samsung, make it affordable, and don't cripple the MicroUSB port so I can charge and sync to my computer. Hopefully the Android framework prevents them from doing that.
Nice specs, but no second cam for Video calling is very bad.
HTC just got spanked by Samsung. Showing them how to make an android phone. Beating the crap out of the G1
I'm excited for the phone, but can this be used on AT&T?
I keep seeing people say it will be useable on T-Mobile, but never AT&T. From what I understand, this phone also works on the same frequencies as AT&T (850/1900 I think it is).
So would it work on AT&T, just not its 3G network?
Geez I'd love to be able to see two years into the future ... I'd love to see the market share of Android, iPhone, Pre and WinMo then. At the moment it is so hard to tell what is going to happen - the Androids might be better phones than the iPhone but they are starting a year behind the iPhone which has clocked up decent sales, and the App Store is already a big success.
If Android can match the App Store for variety, increase the quality of the apps a bit AND get consumers (not just tech-heads) to buy the phones, then sure, game over for Apple. But it is never that easy, especially that last bit about being exciting to consumers and not just Engadget readers.
Vid !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDwur5-T_YE
Man, this phone looks pretty nice, but why don't they use the amazing nHD screen from the Omnia HD i8910 instead of this HVGA mediocrity.
Twice the real estate to work with would make the browser way nicer to use, and really give this phone one up over the iPhone et al.
I'm holding off buying a new phone until I can get an android handset with at least a VGA capacitative screen.
Is this baby heading to sprint?
Is this the final "design"? I see 2 flaws...
1) Where is the Home Key?
2) Where is the Menu Key? (unless thats it inbetween back and call end??)
You can't really use android without these 2 keys to be perfectly honest.
@Steve
The Menu key is the button above the send key, on the left, and the home key is the tiny thing on the right between the back and the end keys.
Cool mobile phone with nice specs, for the dutch among us, there is http://www.samsung-i7500.nl
Out of curiosity, I wonder why no cellphones have AM radio. All the news info is on the AM airwaves.
Will it support DivX/Xvid?
And what is video recording resolution and fps?