Samsung unveils Android-equipped Galaxy Spica i5700
By Chris Ziegler 
posted November 15th 2009 10:56PM
posted November 15th 2009 10:56PM
posted November 15th 2009 10:56PM
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another redudant crap android phone. it does nothing new, but zomg google sticker!!!
Yes Samsung is really diluting the android brand by sticking it on all their dumbphones
samsung has like wow 3 os's...why?
Well actually wouldn't Samsung have more three? They have Android, Winmo, Symbian(licensee), Bada(newly announced), and BREW(licensed from Qualcomm) which was used on the Instinct line. I know BREW isn't a smartphone OS but I was just throwing out all the OS' I could think of Samsung pedaling.
They do put a crap load of phones out though...I guess if you consider the fact that there are nearly 100 phones per year by Samsung, 10 OS' isn't that much XP
They also did two LiMO phones for Vodafone recently, the H1 & M1.
And on top of everything, they have their own proprietary dumbphone software as well. A little bit of streamlining wouldn't hurt...
Don't forget about the H1 N1
What is the cpu specs? Will we see it in the states? Sprint?
Uhh, well it said it is "an 800MHz core (presumably the same as the Moment's)"...Do you usually read articles by just looking at the pictures?
Oh wait...nevermind. I guess that was an update after the original post...Sorry
I guess I deserve to be flamed now XP
It is powered by the Samsung S3C6410 same as the one powering iPhone 3G (not 3GS). clocked at 800MHz.
The said chip does advertise OpenGL-ES 2.0, but I wonder if Android will ever start taking advantage of that.
Does anyone know of any 3D games coming to the android market?
inuendo!
i really like the divx support i hope this rom can be ported to the beholdI. i dont understand why phones dont support all codecs instead of picking and choosing.
Mostly because of licensing issues. OEMs have to pay huge amount to codec companies, so they pick and choose the best codec that is supported by their chip.
The most popular codecs supported by current hardware being h.264, mpeg4(divx) in that order.
The freely available applications which we download form the web are generally based on software codecs, i.e. not utilizing the special hardware built into the phone. The software codecs consume more battery power and do not scale to very high resolutions.
My guess is that some companies just don't want you to be able to play whatever you want. Maybe because they have their own media stores and/or because they have deals with the labels to make "pirate" formats more difficult to use.
That's why Apple and Microsoft devices support the least amount of formats, less than any other PMPs out there.
More importantly, why is Divx still so popular on the net? Especially when MP4 is more standardized and almost every device these days support it. Mp4 should be everywhere, not divx/xvid files.
Damn...send that DIVX rom over to the Droid or the upcoming HTC Passion (or dragon or whatever it will be called)
You kinda forgot the most important part where it says it has an 800MHz processor....
Touche! Updated!
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Chris, why can't we rank your comment?
chris, I believe you might be the chosen one.
@paul:
Because he still got butthurt from the "Look I made an article about a spelling error"-article?
Sammy? What's up with all the nicknames, Chrissy?
You've never heard Samsung called "Sammy"? Thought it was pretty common, actually.
When you're Engadget and you're writing about many of the same companies repeatedly, eventually you need to change it up with a nickname. That said, I've seen "Sammy" on here before.
I've seen "sammy" over at GSMArena, PocketNow. It's a common nickname around the phone blogs.
sammy is a totally common nickname for Samsung, not just here on engadget, but on other sites and forums as well
the only sammy i think of is sega, naturally..............
Chris, why cant we rank your comment?
They took away the ability of ranking editors comments the other day. I'm pretty sure it had something to do with the whole "spelling post" incident. I don't think Topolsky liked having all of his comments 'lowest ranked'. But I could be wrong.
How long ago was this "incident"? I would think that plans for improving the site are a bit more long term.
Really? I didn't know. I'm not that really an active blog reader.
A few days ago in this post :
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/hey-google-failing-to-spellcheck-android-2-0-can-have-undesir/#comments
engadget (actually chris IIRC) was having a little fun with google for a couple of typos in an android error message. Some internet drama ensued after commenters pointed out engadget's less than perfect spelling record. Topolsky got involved and all of his comments got 'lowest ranked'. At some point in that same post, the karma system disappeared from Topolsky's comments and they couldn't be ranked anymore. AFAIK ever since then editor's comments aren't subject to karma.
If I'm wrong I'm sure I'll be corrected, but that's the last time I remember being able to vote up or down on an editor's comments
Panning over that article, I have to say that hypocrisy aside and the fact that everyone makes mistakes, Chris was trying to stress the fact that there shouldn't have been any spelling errors in the first place considering the fact that they put so much work into every part of Android. Compiling source code and undergoing extensive beta tests/reviews, how could they have missed that error? Meanwhile all Engadget has to do is type some stuff up and hope that their browser catches them on a flaw. The comparisons are unleveled. For them to be THAT angry was beyond me; It was like their dog got ran over. In the end, Google made a mistake and there's no way you can go, "Well it's justifiable because you typed were instead of we're 6 weeks ago". People should have seen through the fact that it was more than just being a grammar nazi..
To be clear, I didn't link to the article to start up another debate, I was just try to answer Smartmouth's question.
No no, of course. I know. I'm not debating anything here. Just expressing my view on that article.
I think you pretty much summed it up perfectly, just given how blown out of proportion everything got in what should have been a quickly forgotten article, I didn't want to be perceived as trolling or anything.
I went to Hong Kong in mid october, and this was advertised on billboards as "Sammy i5700"
Looks nice, I like it
I really like the looks (and specs) of this handset.
Divx for Hero PLZ
Get this thing to Canada, and I've found my next phone. Divx is a major plus.
Sammy? What's up with all the nicknames, Chrissy?
Engadget, every time your comment system fails, a resistive touchscreen is born.
Any idea if this phone will be running Android 1.5 or 2.0? It talks about Europe and Asia, but no word on the US too, oh well.
probably 1.5 ( Sammy likes to keep their OS's outdated, says it gives them "class")
ew. looks like a crappy featurephone
Congratulations for finding the point. This is supposed to be a low cost featurephone.