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Samsung
If you think the Korean manufacturer is slow at giving us new GSM models, just wait till you see what they have lined up for us in 2003!
This is possibly the only stand at CeBIT that I stayed at for quite a while. Trying to take in the many new models showing on their stands, it’s suddenly hard to contemplate Samsung bombarding the market with so many new models when they were slow to release new models during 2002.
Anyway, here goes:
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SGH-D700
- first Samsung phone to use the Series 60 interface which runs on Symbian OS 6.1, and will also include a built-in swivel camera and rotating LCD display,
USB/IR interface, 65K-colour display, and support for an external MMC memory card (expected quarter three of 2003);
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SGH-i500
- Samsung’s first Palm OS 5.2 PDA phone, and includes an integrated camera, internal 32MB DRAM, and high-resolution 65K TFT LCD screen (launch date yet to be confirmed on publication of this article);
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SGH-i700
- Samsung’s first PDA phone to be based on Microsoft’s Pocket PC 2002 phone edition operating system, and to include a built-in camera, 32MB DRAM and high-resolution 65K-colour TFT screen (expected quarter three of 2003);
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SGH-P400
- camera phone with rotating lens and 65K LCD screen, which can act as a viewfinder when flipped out (expected May 2003);
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SGH-P410
- similar to P400, but with external 256-colour LCD and multi-shot feature for the camera, taking up to 15 rapid shots (expected third quarter of 2003);
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SGH-X410
- first Samsung phone to incorporate Bluetooth wireless technology, as well as tri-band compatibility, GPRS data connectivity, Java, 40-tone polyphonics, and 65K-colour TFT screen (expected availability in Europe during June/July 2003);
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SGH-Z100
- first 3G UMTS phone from Samsung which comes with all the basic features of their “V” class models (GPRS Class 8, WAP, MMS, Java) plus camcorder, video streaming support (thanks to faster data rates over UMTS), GSM900/GSM1800/WCDMA networks supported, 40-tone polyphonics, and a 260,000-colour display (expected second half of 2003);
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Wrist Watch Phone
- first mobile phone to take on a wrist watch form factor and smallest GPRS phone in the world, and includes a colour screen, handsfree speakerphone, GPRS Class 10 data connectivity, and Bluetooth wireless support which makes this phone so much more practical (expected fourth quarter of 2003).
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Much time has passed since our original megapixel camera phone comparison article of late 2004, and manufacturers have had the opportunity to improve the...
