Friday 14 September 2007

Samsung announces European sales of its F700 smartphone    [ 14-09-2007 15:30 ]

Author: Serge Novikov     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

Today Samsung Electronics officially announced the European sales of a Windows multimedia smartphone Samsung F700 starting in November. Its revised interface got iF Design award this year.

The model is equipped with a 3.2” widescreen touch-sensitive display, a 5-megapixel camera, a sliding QWERTY-keyboard and support of wireless technologies, such as Bluetooth v2.0 and HSDPA (up to 3.6 Mbps).

Samsung F7 is powered by Windows OS, but has company developed interface called “croix” (a French word standing for “cross”). Many have already dubbed the F700 with its interface a Korean iPhone, however this phone will be functionally advanced. As for the interface advantages, let’s wait for the release of the F700 and its commercial samples.

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Samsung SGH-P520 for Armani phone    [ 14-09-2007 12:12 ]

Author: Verа Kozlova   Source: GSM Helpdesk Nederland     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

The SGH-P520 rumored to be the very Armani phone was introduced at Samsung summit in the Netherlands. By the way there is still no official announcement of the phone, thus the specification details are from leaked info. However the model is said to come out by the Christmas at €400.

Non official specs of Samsung SGH-P520 “Armani”:

• Networks - GSM (900/1800/1900 MHz) GPRS/EDGE
• Display – 2.6” touchscreen, 320x240 pixels (QVGA) 262K colors
• Camera - 3-megapixel
• Onboard memory - 50 MB
• microSD slot
• Local connectivity - Wi-Fi, Bluetooth (A2DP)
• UMA support
• Battery - 960 mAh
• Dimensions - 88x54x8.9 mm
• Weight - 102 g

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Garmin and TomTom work on GPS handsets    [ 14-09-2007 10:41 ]

Author: Verа Kozlova   Source: DigiTimes     Translation by: Rytchkova Anja     

According to Digitimes.com two largest GPS device vendors Garmin and TomTom are working on their own-brand GPS handset. The info sounds logical given the world trend of increasing demand for convergent GPS-solutions and vast potential of both companies in GPS-navigation sphere.

The companies are said to actively cooperate with Inventec Appliances, Quanta Computer and Compal Communications, probably one of them will manufacture new navigation handsets of Garmin and TomTom. It’s unclear under which brand new products will come out and what software they will have. Maybe even the vendors don’t still know it.

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