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Meet the I7500, Samsung’s First Android Phone

Julie — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:08:25 +0000

Samsung launches I7500, The Company’s First Android-Powered Mobile Phone.
Seoul (Korea Newswire) April 27, 2009 05:08 PM — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading mobile phone provider, today unveiled the I7500, its first Android-powered mobile phone. With a launch of I7500, Samsung became the first company among the global top three mobile phone manufacturers to unveil an Android-powered phone.

“Samsung is among the earliest members of the Open Handset Alliance and has been actively moving forward to introduce the most innovative Android mobile phone,” said JK Shin, Executive Vice President and Head of Mobile Communication Division in Samsung Electronics. “With Samsung’s accumulated technology leadership in mobile phone industry and our consistent strategy to support every existing operating system, I believe that Samsung provides the better choices and benefits to our consumers” he added.

The Samsung I7500 is a cutting-edge smartphone, featuring a 3.2″ AMOLED full touch screen and 7.2Mbps HSDPA and WiFi connectivity, giving users access to Google™ Mobile services and full web browsing at blazing speeds.

The Samsung I7500 offers users access to the full suite of Google services, including Google Search™, Google Maps™, Gmail™, YouTube™, Google Calendar™, and Google Talk™. The integrated GPS receiver enables the comprehensive use of Google Maps features, such as My Location, Google Latitude, Street View, local search and detailed route description. Hundreds of other applications are available in Android Market. For example, the application Wikitude, a mobile travel guide, allows consumers to access details of unknown sights via location-based Wikipedia articles.

Based on Samsung’s proven product leadership, Samsung I7500 comes with latest multimedia features. The large and vivid 3.2″AMOLED display ensures the brilliant representation of multimedia content and enjoyable full touch mobile experience. Along with supporting a 5-megapixel camera and various multimedia codec formats, the I7500 also provides a long enough battery life (1500mAh) and generous memory capacity up to 40GB (Internal memory: 8GB, External memory: Up to 32GB) to enjoy all the applications and multimedia content. The phone also boasts its slim and compact design with mere 11.9mm thickness.

The Samsung I7500 will be available in major European countries from June, 2009.

News Source: my3G

Android 1.5’s widget support gets detailed

Julie — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:10:51 +0000

One of the huge features missing from Android at its initial launch was proper widget extensibility — as far as the official SDK was concerned, what you saw on the home screen when you took your phone out of the box was what you got, no questions asked.

Fortunately, this is a marquis addition in 1.5, and the official Android Developers Blog is detailing exactly how this is all going to go down. In short, it looks like devs have complete control — as it should be — with the ability to infinitely tweak widget update intervals and appearance. As any G1 owner can attest, this action can’t possibly come soon enough.

Article Written by: my3G

Google Android debuts at Mobile World Congress

Julie — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:10:06 +0000

Google Android has landed at the Mobile World Congress which is being held in Spain. The early prototype that were shown to us was running applications such as a music player, Google Maps, Calendar, Camera, and SMS. Google is hoping Android will become the dominant operating system for mobile phones. It is designed to improve the quality of the Internet experience on handsets.
“We are seeing a number of technology companies demonstrating how Android will operate on their technology,” Google spokesman Barry Schnitt told reporters on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress. “Clearly momentum is building.”

The first Android enabled phone is expected to go on sale in the second half of this year.