Samsung Galaxy GT-I7500 unboxed, "Google Experience" distinction now clear as mud

by Nilay Patel posted Jul 10th 2009 at 12:41PM

The HTC Hero and T-Mobile myTouch 3G aren't the only Android phones making waves this week: the Samsung Galaxy GT-I7500 also launched on O2 Germany, and this is the first unboxing we've seen. Continuing the confusion over what handsets actually get the full Google blessing, this version of the I7500 runs pretty much bone-stock Android, but isn't a "Google Experience" phone, which in this case apparently means that firmware updates have to be loaded manually over USB instead of being pushed over the air. If you're keeping track, that's now a third axis of differentiation between Google-branded Android handsets and everything else, and we're starting to think no one really knows what all the rules and differences actually are -- hey, Eric, maybe you could set down that BlackBerry for a minute and sort all this out?

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, O2, Android

Tags: android, galaxy, germany, google, google experience, GoogleExperience, gt-i7500, i7500, o2, o2 germany, O2Germany, samsung, unboxing

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Mylo @ Jul 10th 2009 2:05PM

I have been waiting for this phone since April and it looks sooo good. Just hurry up and get to the UK!

He mentioned that is was not sim locked, does that mean I could buy from the O2 Germany website and buy a UK sim for it here? Or would it be better to avoid language/wrong plug problems and wait the few weeks for a UK release?

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