Review of Samsung i7500 Android Phone
OCWorkbench 9 Jun 2009

Samsung will soon join the market with it's first Android powered Smartphone i7500. It is rumoured that this phone will it's appearance in the upcoming CommunicAsia 2009 event held at Singapore Expo next week.

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.

Compared to the HTC Magic, the Samsung i7500 has a better specification. Although both have a 3.2" 320x480 screen, the AMOLED really makes a lot of difference in the display, it is bright and has better contrast too. The 5 megapixel camera also takes better pictures compared to the 3 megapixel on the HTC Magic. Another major difference is the support of HSDPA and HSUPA allowing downloads of up to 7.2mbps and upload of 5.76mbps. The HTC Magic can only have an upload speed of 2mbps. A faster uplink speed is essential for mobile bloggers or youtube posters. Although in the specs, this Samsung i7500 we have does not come with a GPS inside. Google Map does work but it gives an rough estimate of your whereabouts. The Samsung i7500 also has a larger battery capacity of 1500mAH compared to 1340mAh on the HTC Magic. The HTC Magic is slightly smaller in dimensions but thicker than the Samsung i7500.

We have to thank Samsung for making this early sample of the i7500 for us to try out. Although it is a still in development stage and functional, it still needs some fine tuning.

On the next few pages, you will see pictures of the phone and videos of the Samsung i7500 in action.

Specifications