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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