Samsung Releases The SGH-i600 Smartphone

Samsung has released at IFA, in Berlin, a new type of mobile phone. Even though the SGH-i600 has the Wi-Fi connection and the keyboard of a PDA and the smartphone 3G technology, it is none of them. In fact, the i600 could be presented like a sort of hybrid between the two technologies; the tiny mobile phone with SSMT (Smart Surface Mounting Technology) succeeds in integrating all the advanced multimedia features in only one package.

The device has a full QWERTY keyboard which makes it look like the Motorola Q, the famous PDA phone killer. It also has almost every type of connectivity available at the moment on the market at the touch of your fingertip, being able to operate in GSM / GPRS / EDGE900 / 1800MHz / 1900MHz or WCDMA / HSDPA / 2100MHz. Furthermore, the phone features a WiFi/802.11b/g wireless network which allows users to surf the Internet from any Wi-Fi spots available, making it the first Samsung's phone compatible with any wireless or mobile network.

Even though the phone only measures 12 mm in width, it still manages to integrate a 3.0 megapixel camera, an up-front camera for video calling, a 65k colors 320 x 240 resolution TFT display, an MP3 music player, and 128 MB ROM and 64 MB RAM, expandable by a microSD card slot, all these on a Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone and running a TI OMAP 1710 processor.

The phone can also be used as a HSPDA modem and can be switched to a USB mass storage device for transfer from your PC, through the drag and drop function.

Unfortunately there's no official date for this release, but it will most likely be available at the end of this year.