Samsung's 4-inch Windows Phone 7 handset gets named: Cetus (SGH-i917)

You'd probably assume that Samsung would have a difficult time overshadowing the Galaxy S right now, but all it really takes is a salacious Bluetooth SIG entry that leaves only the most important parts to the imagination. We've known for some time now that Sammy would be one of Microsoft's closest Windows Phone 7 launch partners, and we've even taken the time to toy with a prototype earlier in the year. But a new Bluetooth certification is now all-but-confirming a name: Cetus. The SGH-i917 is apt to be North America's first WP7 device from Samsung, a 4-inch smartphone with an 800 x 480 AMOLED display, 5 megapixel camera, a VGA front-facing camera, an FM radio tuner, inbuilt GPS, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, USB 2.0 and of course, Bluetooth. As for pricing, availability and form factor? "Not yet."

[Johnny Tremaine Posted Jul 30th 2010 12:34PM]

Cetus? What an awful name. It sounds like a venereal disease.

[Meng Bomin Posted Jul 30th 2010 12:57PM]

Sounds like a whale of a phone.

[bachviet Posted Jul 30th 2010 12:59PM]

AT&T branded phone SGH-i##7

[bdkennedy1 Posted Jul 30th 2010 1:28PM]

The Samsung Fetus. Nice.

[Evster88 Posted Jul 30th 2010 1:40PM]

See-tus? Sa-toos? Help me with the phonetics pretty please!

[RCtennis3811 Posted Jul 30th 2010 2:22PM]

I'm guessing this is coming to at&t since it has the "SGH-i" model moniker? Oh, and probably Rogers, Bell, and Telus too since they have the same 3G bands.

[shift123 Posted Jul 30th 2010 2:39PM]

Fetus.. Sorry I had to

[RayVoid Posted Jul 30th 2010 2:56PM]

I was skimming titles, and just read "Samsung's 4-inch Windows Phone 7 handset gets named: Cletus". Boy, does that make this article far less interesting...
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=cletus+the+slack+jawed+yokel&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=IiBTTIzCIcG78gaqscX-Ag&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDUQsAQwAw

[Smurf Posted Jul 30th 2010 2:57PM]

Cetus. I hope it doesn't launch with that name. Everyone is going to call it Cletus. Not good word association for a first gen of any phone.

[evilbonsai Posted Jul 30th 2010 3:12PM]

Better not be white, or people will be waiting a LONG time to get one.

/do I really need to explain?

[tonyprince Posted Jul 30th 2010 3:43PM]

one letter difference for a total sick name. FETUS.