According to Digital Chosunilbo, Samsung will tomorrow launch the SGH-i520 S60 smartphone. The phone runs on Symbian 9.2 and S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1. The phone has a QVGA screen, supports HSDPA connectivity and comes in a slim slide form factor. Pics after the break, and more information as we get it.
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Well, this sounds interesting, we've always been bugged by Nokia's strategy of keeping their phones, just one feature short of perfect, but i have better expectations from Samsung. Would like to know more about this symbian beast, if its really comparable to other s60v3 phones available in the market.
Symbian have just announced it - http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2006/pr20068544.html
I make this Samsung's sixth Symbian phone (SGH-D700, SGH-D710, SGH-D720, SGH-D730 and Z600 came before it).
Whilst it might look nice on the face of things, will they actually ship any?
Well hopefully they seem to be making more of a noise with this device. However I can't as yet see a press release on the Samsung website.
My experience with both low-end and high-end Samsung phones has been dreadfull: great design, packed with features but virtually none of the features are usable because they're always so poorly implemented.
So hopefully the combination of Samsung and Symbian will give us great looking phones packed with properly implemented features. If this is the case and if this is not just a one-off phone, then this might help symbian to reach a much wider audience as Samsung phones are very trendy among young people. This might help symbian in the US as well. Unlike Nokias, Samsung phones are quite common over there, aren't they?
EDIT: well, it's not a one-off phone since Samsung had already released Symbian phones in the past. They didn't really have much success it seems though.