Samsung F500 Ultra Video officially becomes DivX-certified

by Brian White, posted Apr 9th 2007 at 10:59PM

Although Samsung dropped the news on its newer F500 handset becoming the "world's first" DivX-certified handset when it was launched a few moons ago, DivX has made that statement certifiable, as the video codec and tech company announced today that the Samsung SGH-F500 "Ultra Video" would be the "world's first" handset with official DivX certification. If you've been waiting to get all those DivX movies and, umm, TV shows onto your handset for portable handset viewing, the Sammy F500 may be your ultimate golden handset, at least for 2007 or so. So, it's official -- let the DivX video start pouring from that F500 (when you get one, that is).

Filed under: Handsets, Multimedia, Samsung, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS

Tags: DiVX, DiVX vertified, DivxVertified, F500, Samsung, Samsung F500, Samsung SGH-F500, Samsung Ultra, SamsungF500, SamsungSgh-f500, SamsungUltra

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ShortFuse @ Apr 10th 2007 2:20AM

Not the first to play DivX, but first to be certified. Mine plays WMV, XviD, DivX, OGM, MKV, etc. but then again, it's linux. good to see a manufacturer realizing 320x240 is good enough to watch videos. too bad it's samsung.

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