Wednesday, February 22, 2006
FCC Approves the Samsung SGH-i750
Posted by Raphael Salgado in "HARDWARE" @ 02:00 AM
"It's been a long time coming, but Samsung's i750 smartphone that we saw back in March last year has finally made its way to the US -- well, at least to the FCC website. It's very similar to Samsung's own i730 except that it replaces the QWERTY keyboard with a numeric keypad, the EV-DO with EDGE, the 1.3 megapixel camera with a 2 megapixel one, and the SD slot with TransFlash. So we guess that is mixing it up quite a bit, but the form factor has remained the same, Bluetooth and WiFi are still here, and unfortunately so is the OS -- Windows Mobile 2003 SE is still alive on this phone which doesn't even have a ship date yet."
According to the specs, the SGH-i750 lacks the 850MHz band, which won't be good for Cingular customers in some rural areas. But the biggest turnoff to many users is the lack of Windows Mobile 5.0 out of the box. With all the new devices and companies backing the new operating system, you have to wonder what the motivation is (or lack of) in producing devices with the older platform. At least the HTC Hermes won't feel so lonely being the only device using microSD (previously known as TransFlash). Given the continuing flood of new devices, would you buy this one, or will the SGH-i750 be DOA?
According to the specs, the SGH-i750 lacks the 850MHz band, which won't be good for Cingular customers in some rural areas. But the biggest turnoff to many users is the lack of Windows Mobile 5.0 out of the box. With all the new devices and companies backing the new operating system, you have to wonder what the motivation is (or lack of) in producing devices with the older platform. At least the HTC Hermes won't feel so lonely being the only device using microSD (previously known as TransFlash). Given the continuing flood of new devices, would you buy this one, or will the SGH-i750 be DOA?
