SPH-V7900: Samsung 3Gb Hard-Disk Phone Launched

Posted by Mike Slocombe on 17 October 2005 at 2:55 pm | Tagged as: Platforms, Mobile, Cellular

SPH-V7900 3GB Hard-Disk Mobile Phone Launched By Samsung Samsung Electronics have launched the hard-disk-based SPH-V7900 mobile phone, sporting a record-breaking built-in 3GB hard disk drive.

The announcement comes nearly a year after Samsung became the first mobile-phone maker on the planet to release a hard disk drive phone, with the SPH-V5400 going on sale in December, 2004.

The new SPH-V7900 offers twice the capacity of its predecessor, with its hefty 3GB capacity giving enough space for several hundred audio files or a few hours of video and, if you’re a popular kind of guy, up to 2,400 contact details.

The SPH-V7900 phone comes stuffed full of the latest techie widgets, sporting two cameras (one with 2-megapixel resolution), dual screens and twin speakers in a twist-flip housing.

The camera offers a 2x optical zoom and TV output socket, with the main TFT LCD screen boasting QVGA (240×320 pixels) resolution.

SPH-V7900 3GB Hard-Disk Mobile Phone Launched By Samsung Naturally, there’s an MP3/video player onboard, capable of playing several formats including Mpeg4/H.264 video and Mpeg4 AAC, AAC+ and MP3 audio.

Pesky work-based activity is supported with an email client and a file viewer capable of viewing MS Office files, pdf format documents, text and jpeg images.

The whole caboodle measures up at 103×52x27.6mm, weighs 165g with Samsung claiming 4.5 hours of talk and 200 hours standby

Unfortunately, the SPH-V7900 will be a CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) model and only sold in South Korea, but the company are preparing a hard-drive-based smartphone for the European market.

SPH-V7900 3GB Hard-Disk Mobile Phone Launched By Samsung Their SGH-I300 - scheduled for a European November release - will run on the Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system and also offer a 3GB hard disk drive offering plug-and-play support (so files can be dragged over from your home PC).

Not quite as excitingly specified as its Far Eastern cousin, the phone comes with a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, scroll wheel navigation, Bluetooth and a 240×320 pixels 262k LCD screen.

The tri-band GSM/GPRS (900/1800/1900MHz) phone will also offer MP3, WMA, AAC, and AAC+ audio support, with expansion through a TransFlash memory card slot.

Pricing hasn’t been announced.

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