So far, Series 60(S60) has mostly been Nokia’s ‘pet platform’ - if you exclude Siemens’s ill-fated SX1 and a variety of other boxen. Now, Samsung brings yet another S60 device…here are the specs we have so far:
Here is an image of the box gathered from the feetup.org wiki:
Feetup claims that the device will be part of Vodafone’s Christmas 2007 portfolio and will have the following specifications(based on the Samsung i520):
* HSDPA / UTMS and EDGE/GPRS
* GPS
* 3.2 MP camera + VGA user facing camera
* 2.4″ QVGA (320 x 240) 262K TFT Screen
* Symbian OS 9.2, S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1
* Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR) and A2DP (Bluetooth Stereo)
* USB 2.0 (including mass storage profile), and PictBridge support
* Flash Lite 2.0
* Full HTML Browser (S60 Browser version 2.0)
* microSD memory card slot
As of now, no information on pricing is available. As an aspiring S60 developer, I am very very happy about this step - if Nokia finally manages to gain other licensees who can truly thrive in the S60 economy and , bright times lay ahead of the operating system.
Samsung is a company that switches/drops platforms easily(e.g. Palm OS) - so their activity could be an indicator for the way Nokia treats its licencees…