Samsung’s popular Galaxy S Android phone has just reached a great milestone. After only 1 month in the South Korean market, SK Telecom which is the exclusive seller of Samsung’s Galaxy S mobile phone has announced that unit sales is now over 500,000.
With the continued growth of the mobile space, Samsung has announced it’s foray into the mobile operating system space. Samsung has announced it’s own open mobile platform called Bada (means “Ocean” in Korean). Bada joins the already existing mobile OS such as Android, Blackberry OS, iPhone OS, Maemo, Symbian, WebOS and Windows Mobile to name some.
Just got home from a late meeting and read Samsung’s official announcement of it’s first Android based mobile phone so I decided to post it here. It’s official, Samsung will be coming out with the I7500 mobile phone — it’s first Android powered mobile phone.
The Samsung I7500 will be available in major European countries from June 2009 (sorry no word yet on when the US market gets its hands on the device). The Samsung I7500 features a 3.2” AMOLED full touch screen (320×480 — when will we ever get to an 800×480 device? I hope its gonna be soon). Of course it will have HSDPA (7.2Mbps) and WiFi connectivity. The camera is 5-megapixel /auto-focus. Not too sure if power LED means it’s going to have an LED flash. Of course Bluetooth® 2.0 and USB 2.0. And get this — a 3.5mm ear jack at last no more adapters. Plus 8GB of internal memory with up to 32GB of microSD external storage.
