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…
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Samsung have been trickling out a few S60 devices for a while now, some have never appeared in the shops, but there should be five S60 3rd edition phones available from Samsung in the next few months - http://feetup.org/wiki/SamsungS60Devices
The SGH-i550 is the one I find potentially most interesting, and it’s pretty close competition (on paper at least) to the Nokia N82.
Hi Jim,
thank you so much for your comment!
For me(coming from the Palm OS world); Samsung’s behavior is totally normal. The company did exactly the same thing many times with Palm OS-powered phones.
In fact, I think that the company does this in order to push prices for the OS. They deliver a demo of a kickass phone, the press is all over them; and then they walk up to the OS manufacturer and say reduce our prices or we don’t release the device…
Best regards
Tam Hanna
Hi,
forgot to add that we have video footage of the new S60V3 devices in action here:
http://tamss60.tamoggemon.com/2007/10/24/the-samsung-booth-at-the-symbian-smartphone-show/
Best regards
Tam Hanna