Samsung's S5600 put through its paces, pre-production style
It'll be a little while yet before Samsung's latest touchphone for the masses hits the streets, but in the meantime, GSMArena's gone ahead and hooked itself up with an early preproduction unit for a hands-on preview. Some features -- most notably the camera -- weren't working, but what was functional seemed pretty well-equipped to take the midrange market head-on this year; the reviewers admit that the handset's pretty plain-looking, but the ergonomics work pretty well and the plastic seems to be of high quality. Interestingly, they found that the S5600's secretly equipped with GPS, despite Samsung's failure to make mention of it at the device's launch, so that's a nice little surprise -- and if you're into TouchWiz, you'll be delighted to know that the phone's equipped with the very latest incarnation. The site thinks that the S5600's media player is good enough to take on full-time duty, too, and the micro-USB port is a breath of fresh air coming from a company notorious for its proprietary connectors. Final verdict? If it can slide in under €250 (about $323), Sammy's got a winner.
