Samsung SGH-i500

Smartphone, which is powered by Palm OS, is an interesting solution. for the first time, such device is made in a clamshell phone design.

• Class: smartphone
• Position in phone line: opens the line
• Rival models: Handspring Treo
• Specifications based on official information

• General features
  • Announced in March 2003, beggining of sales - 3Q 2003
  • GSM900/1800/1900
  • Battery type: Li-Ion 1100 mAh
  • Autonomy
    • Standby time: up to 100 hours
    • Talk time: up to 200 minutes
  • Two displays: 1) Internal - a touchscreen, which has a resolution of 162х176 pixels (it can also support the resolution of 324х352 pixels); it is TFT-65K display, which contains up to 14 text lines. 2) External OLED display (96х64 pixels) is capable to show up to 256 colors
  • Palm OS 5.2
  • Integrated digital 330 CMOS, VGA camera
  • Dimensions: 87х54х26.9 mm
  • Weight: 150 grams

• Memory
  • Memory: 32 Mb is shared betweeb phonebook, calendar, messages, images and other applications (total memory - 64 Mb: ROM- 32 MB, RAM - 32 Mb)
  • MMC-card slot
  • A possibility to assign a photo to certain phone numbers stored in the phonebook
  • Up to 8 fields can be added to one entry (Name, Surname, Company, duty, phone, mobile, fax, e-mail)
  • Unlimited number of caller groups; a possibility to assign one name to several caller groups simultaneously
  • Calls lists, they are also unlimited; a date and duration is indicated for every record. Besides call type is fixed. One can set a date, till which these calls will be stored (a month by default)

 

• Ringing tones, call management

• Vibrating alert
• 40-tones polyphony
• Voice dialing
• Speed dialing for up to 8 phone numbers
• Minute minder
• Autodialing
• HR, FR, EFR

• SMS
  • A possibility to send a receive ringing tones and animated pictures
  • A possibility to send a group SMS message
  • Predictive text input T9
  • Templates
  • MMS

   

• Connectivity
• WAP 2.0
• MMS
• GPRS (4+1)
• IrDA
• Synchronization with PC
• SyncML
• Built-in mail client

• Organizer and extras
  • A set of standard applications for Palm OS 5.2
  • Voice memo
  • Time, alarm-clock (once, repeating, weekly), world time
  • Organiser, to-do list, synchronisation with PC
  • Voice commands
  • Games

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published - 14 April 2003

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