Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, O2, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, CDMA, HSUPA, Android

UK to get Samsung Galaxy next week? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Others, Samsung, Verizon Wireless, Symbian, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, EV-DO, CDMA, Casio, iPhone OS

Here’s some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of mobile for Tuesday, August 4th, 2009:

• Following the G’zOne C731 Rock, Casio’s C741 Brigade for Verizon has nabbed FCC clearance. Not much is known about the phone — we can assume it’ll be ruggedized to one degree or another — but one interesting tidbit is the inclusion of VCAST TV support, something Verizon’s been getting lax on as of late. [Via PhoneArena]
• Have you seen a white / silver Samsung i7500 Galaxy? Now you have. [Thanks, Ruben W.]
• China’s regulatory peeps have had the good fortune of seeing a couple new Philips Xeniums in their midst, a K700 full touch model and an X501 candybar. Philips has yet to announce either unit, but you can bet they’ll last until the next ice age on a single charge. [Via Unwired View]
• Microsoft’s MSDN — its official developer network — has published a case study on porting an iPhone app to Windows Mobile. A year ago, you’d have been more likely to see case studies going in the other direction, but, you know, times are changing. [Via Tweakers.net]
• Digia put together a nice little web browser for UIQ called @Web, but then UIQ sorta went away — so they’re back at it again, this time on S60 5th Edition in beta form. S60 does a decent job browsing out of the gate, but @Web’s got some interesting UI elements that might make it worth a look. [Via All About Symbian]
• We don’t see much of it in the States, but Samsung’s got a whole brand — DuoS — for dual-SIM capable handsets. Mobil.cz has dug up a new model in the series, a low-end candybar dubbed C3212 that’ll run the equivalent of around $195 and go on sale in Russia later this summer before expanding to other European markets. [Via Mobile Phone Helpdesk]
• Value brand Cricket is adding yet more value to its unlimited voice plans that start at a bargain-basement $40. The $40 price point now includes web access; $45 gets you unlimited email, backup, and 30 roaming minutes a month, and $55 ups the roaming to 200 minutes.

Oh, by the way: August 4, 2009 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Android

Feeling a little envious of the Android-based Samsung Galaxy now available in Germany and soon to be available in other parts of Europe? Then you’re in luck, sort of, as a new “A3LGTI7500L” model complete with US 3G has now sailed through the FCC. Unfortunately for those of us ’round these parts, that “L” at the end of the model name signifies that this particular model is intended for Latin America, but it’s still about as close as you’ll get to a practical option for the time being — at least until those T-Mobile rumors pan out.

Samsung Galaxy with US 3G clears the FCC, but it’s not what you think originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hey, nice Samsung Galaxy you got there! Whoa, whoa, wait… you sure you want to turn that thing on? Are you physically and emotionally prepared for what happens next? See, in a world where space travel knows no boundaries, Facebook has its own planet, and Samsung makes Android-powered phones, cute robots ride (yes, ride) i7500s from heavenly body to heavenly body in search of entertainment and friendship. Follow the break for the whole video, and watch really closely for the part at the end where the Galaxy collides with Earth and accidentally causes an extinction-level event.

[Via HDblog.it]

Continue reading In tomorrow’s nightmarish hellscape, robots shoot craps and Samsung Galaxy is your only friend

In tomorrow’s nightmarish hellscape, robots shoot craps and Samsung Galaxy is your only friend originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, O2, Android

The HTC Hero and T-Mobile myTouch 3G aren’t the only Android phones making waves this week: the Samsung Galaxy GT-I7500 also launched on O2 Germany, and this is the first unboxing we’ve seen. Continuing the confusion over what handsets actually get the full Google blessing, this version of the I7500 runs pretty much bone-stock Android, but isn’t a “Google Experience” phone, which in this case apparently means that firmware updates have to be loaded manually over USB instead of being pushed over the air. If you’re keeping track, that’s now a third axis of differentiation between Google-branded Android handsets and everything else, and we’re starting to think no one really knows what all the rules and differences actually are — hey, Eric, maybe you could set down that BlackBerry for a minute and sort all this out?

Samsung Galaxy GT-I7500 unboxed, “Google Experience” distinction now clear as mud originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, O2, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Android

The big Android news today is all out of London and New York today, but if we move a bit eastward, there’s some cool stuff going on in Deutschland, too: Samsung’s i7500 Galaxy is now available. The beastly smartphone immediately becomes the highest-end Android device to date and will have a little while to enjoy the top of the hill until the Hero drops, thanks in no small part to its 5 megapixel cam, support for 7.2Mbps HSDPA, 8GB of internal storage, and a 3.2-inch AMOLED display. Looks like it’s yours for €69.99 (about $98) on contract, so count us in — and how about some time on the Nürburgring while we’re at it?

[Thanks, Jon]

Samsung Galaxy now available from O2 Germany originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, HSDPA, Android

Speaking of Samsung touchscreen handsets, Bouygues Telecom’s announced that they expect to ship the company’s first Android handset — the i7500 — in early July, making it the first carrier to snag it. The French company will rebadge the device, calling it the Galaxy, which is certainly sexier than the numeric moniker. The quad-band GSM, tri-band 7.2Mbps HSDPA (900/1700/2100MHz) handset has a 3.2-inch, 320 x 480 pixel AMOLED touchscreen, WiFi, GPS, a 5 megapixel camera, 8GB of storage with MicroSD expansion for up to 32GB more. We’re still expecting this bad boy — which recently passed through the old FCC — to make a possible T-Mobile debut this fall.

[Via Talk Android]

Samsung i7500 to be renamed Galaxy, released in France in early July originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 18 May 2009 18:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sure, we already got a pretty decent look at Samsung’s first Android device — the i7500 — just a few short days ago. Tech 65’s video, however, gives the phone a much more in depth once-over, and while the software is still not in its final state, it’s looking pretty smart over all. If you’ve forgotten, the quad-band GSM, tri-band 7.2Mbps HSDPA (900/1700/2100MHz) handset boasts a 3.2-inch, 320 x 480 pixel AMOLED touchscreen, WiFi, GPS, a 5 megapixel camera, 8GB of storage with MicroSD expansion for up to 32GB more, and a standard 3.5mm jack. Hit the video after the break, but fair warning: this video does not have any awesome hair metal.

Continue reading Samsung’s i7500 Android phone shows up in another, more epic hands-on video

Samsung’s i7500 Android phone shows up in another, more epic hands-on video originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 10 May 2009 22:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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