Samsung prepping Symbian-powered i450?

by Chris Ziegler posted Aug 16th 2007 at 3:39PM

Samsung seems to be on quite an S60 kick lately (gotta make use of that bought-and-paid-for license somehow!), not to say we'd know it in the States. Just Another Mobile Phone Blog indicates that the SGH-i450 is yet another handset in the Symbian family tree, a somewhat attractive slider (from what we can make of this picture, anyway) featuring 3.6Mbps HSDPA, QVGA display, 2 megapixel cam, 1GB of onboard storage plus microSD, A2DP, and S60 3rd Edition. Owing to the triband GSM radio, we won't see this one either, but who knows -- maybe if we keep grousing about it we'll eventually get one we can use.

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Symbian, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Tags: i450, s60, samsung, sgh-i450, slider, symbian

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Matt @ Aug 16th 2007 4:03PM

Ahhh crappy Sammy...decided to cripple yet another device and loose some market bu creating only a tri-band. I'm really beginning to loose respect for manufacturers that churn out nice phones only to cripple them on the hardware side. Bad Sammy.

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dak @ Aug 16th 2007 9:08PM

Gads. Why are so many progressive S60 phones either not carried by US carriers, not equipped for US freqs, or otherwise just not geared for the US. I'm thrilled to know the N95 is being released in a US version, but I'll be shocked if a major carrier offers it allowing one to get it at a discount. This little phone by Samsung looks fantastic, but alas, it appears it won't be released in the US. Right now I'm considering the new Nokia 6120 Classic; at least it is quad-band.

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