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Samsung Galaxy Spica comes to Rogers

Granted, they got off to a slow start -- but every since the Dream and Magic originally launched, Rogers has done a pretty commendable job of leading the Android charge north of the border. Latest in the line is Samsung's venerable i5700 Galaxy Spica , a phone that won't win any awards for running up-to-date firmware (it still rocks Cupcake ) nor any medals for being high-end (the camera's just 3.2 megapixels with no flash), but at the very least, it makes an interesting, cheap Magic alternative with a high likelihood of an Android 2.x upgrade down the road.

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Another Android Offering – Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica

After months of speculation on the net as the Galaxy Lite, the Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica is released in Europe after hitting the Russian markets last month.   This is Samsung’s fourth Android smartphone (2nd in Europe) and the world’s first to have DivX playback capability. Samsung had the better sense to rename it other than Lite for it certainly is not a lightweight version of the i7500 galaxy released earlier.   The new touchscreen smartphone may have a more modest feature set, but has some power-packed smartphone sophistication tuck up its sleeve. Android Features Apart from DivX video playback capability, the Spica runs a dedicated DNSe 2. 0 sound processing engine that software-assists its already powerful 800 MHz CPU in handling complex decoding of compressed media files. This enables it media players better processing of the popular audio and video file formats out there.   Headphone listening takes two options you can take – one from its 3. 5mm headphone jack or from its wireless Bluetooth A2DP support. The new Spica is a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE on 2G and a twin- band 3G/HSDPA with data transmission speeds of up to 3. 2 Mbps for a no-wait internet browsing experience. It is housed in an elegantly styled touchscreen monoblock casing that comes in either black or white body color.   It measures 115 x 57 x 13. 2mm and weighs 124 grams.   WiFi 802/11 b/g is there for hotspot internet surfing as well as Bluetooth 2. 1 for high speed local wireless data transfers and synchronization with other Bluetooth-enabled devices. Dominating its façade is a 3. 2” TFT capacitive touchscreen that can display 16 million colors on a Half-VGA (320 x 480 pixels) resolution. Like other touchscreens in its class, the Spica can auto-rotate its viewing orientation according to handset tilt with its gravity accelerometer. Imaging starts with a 3. 15 megapixel camera with auto-focus and geo-tagging from its built-in assisted-GPS receiver. There’s no secondary camera to support 3G video calling. VGA video recording, however, is supported. Like the heftier i7500 galaxy, the Spica runs on the Android v1. 5 Cupcake which Android fans hopes to be upgradable to the latest version 2. 0 Éclair. It has its native support for Email and IM as well as an internet browser supporting Flash video and YouTube as well as Google apps like Google Search, Talk and Maps including a Java-based digital compass. Internal memory comes with a modest 180 MB that can be expanded with its microSD slot for up to 32 GB. Its generous 1500 mAh li-Ion battery, you get up to 11. 5 hours of talk time and 27 days of standby time on a single charge – one of the best among touchscreen mobiles. Now Available The new Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica smartphone has been released in Russia last month and is now available in major European countries with a published price of €320 prior to taxes and subsidies, cheaper than that of the i7500 galaxy. Online sites of carriers have been slow to update their site contents about its availability though some have it on pre-orders. O2 in Ireland has it on an exclusive deal with Samsung, so O2 UK may not far off, considering it also carries the earlier Galaxy on an exclusive deal.

Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica, Bringing DivX to Android

South Korea-based Samsung has officially unveiled the Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica that had the speculative rumor mills on the internet buzzing as the Galaxy Lite before its release. Samsung is right to take out the “Lite” branding as the i5700 does have improved specifications over the earlier Galaxy i7500 smartphone.   This is Samsung’s second Android handset targeted specially to European markets (the 4th worldwide). After what seems like a sustained market demand, users can now watch DivX movies on the handset, making it the first Android to run DivX. Samsung has earlier brought DivX to its flagship Omnia HD (8900), Ultra Touch (S8300) and BEAT DJ (M7600) in recognition of its excellent high quality lossy compression codec that now figure prominently in ripping High Definition disks and stored in MKV files for both home and mobile viewing.   Not all mobile phones carry the feature as it still require DivX certification and licensing for any device to get it playing the codec.   Android phone users, however, can still get DivX from third party apps like the vxflash player from MobileSoft. A Word about DivX DivX is a brand of codec technology that makes a competent balance of high quality MPEG4/Part2 compression algorithm with files sizes that are small enough for archiving across consumer media appliances like for the home and on the road. There are now over 100 million DivX-certified gadgets from leading consumer electronics brands that is making a dent in spreading a high quality high definition video experience across major platforms. It requires certification and licensing to get your device to run DivX but it also figures as one of many codecs commonly used for ripping discs into hard drives for transcoding in smaller files. Features at a Glance Apart from being able to run DivX video, its media players can play just about all the popular media files you throw at it.   Headphone listening can come either from a 3. 5mm headphone jack or wirelessly from its Bluetooth A2DP support. The new I5700 Spica is a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE on 2G and dual band 3G/HSDPA housed in a touchscreen monoblock body measuring 115 x 57 x 13. 2mm weighing 124 g.   There’s WiFi 802/11 b/g for hotspot surfing and Bluetooth 2. 1 for high speed wireless data synchronization. It gets a powerful engine with a proprietary Samsung 800MHz CPU, making the i5700 Spica one of the fasted smartphone on in Android territory.   Memory is a modest 180 MB which can be expanded up to 32 GB on its microSD slot. It has a 3. 2” TFT capacitive touchscreen supporting 16 million colors on a 320 x 480 pixel resolution. Like most other touchscreens, it has a gravity accelerometer to auto-rotate viewing orientation based on the tilt of the handset. Imaging function is supported by a 3. 15 megapixel autofocus camera with geo-tagging from its assisted GPS receiver. It does not have any secondary camera despites its 3G video calling capability. Like its heftier i7500 brother, the new handset runs on the Android v1. 5 Cupcake which is a tad down from the current v2. 0 Éclair Android that runs on the Motorola Droid/Milestone.   It has a Java-based digital compass, Google Search, Google Maps and tight integration with YouTube and Google talk. From its generous 1500 mAh li-Ion battery, the Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica gets up to 11. 5 hours of talk time and 27 days of standby time on a single charge – one of the best among touchscreen mobiles.

Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica Brings Android + DivX to the United Kingdom

Samsung has launched plenty of different phones across the United Kingdom before.   They know how to make a phone that changes the entire situation of a country.   However, one of their latest phone announcements has completely changed the way that many people will use their i5700 Galaxy Spica.   This mobile phone is going to be the first mobile phone to support DivX high quality video!  No longer is it necessary to convert video from DivX before putting it onto your phone.   It is now plug and play ready so that you can use it whenever and wherever you want to. While watching that DivX movie is nice, you are not going to be able to do it without something really powerful under the hood.   That is why it is necessary to have one of the fastest, if not the fastest, mobile phone processor in the industry.   That is right, the Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica includes the 800 Mhz mobile phone processor.   This will help you to use the phone for watching videos and other high computing activities.   Do not worry though, this processor can take a lot of work before it will go anywhere near dying or overheating.   The engineers at Samsung were very particular about how they designed the processor and phone so that it would not overheat. Android 1. 5 is included with the Samsung i5700.   While this is not the newest version of Android out of the box, it is still something that will allow you to accomplish many of the unique tasks that Android was built for.   One example is being able to browse Youtube.   While you are able to use DivX on this Android phone for the first time, you can always go back to the old standby of Youtube.   Simply watch any Youtube video that you want, from anywhere that you have mobile phone service. The one downside to this is that not all areas have fast enough mobile phone service to where you can get a decent amount of bandwidth.   This leads to people becoming angry when they cannot finish their Youtube clips.   While then Samsung i5700 will do in a pinch, if you plan on consuming more than two Youtube videos, you are much better off with a traditional computer.   It will save the bandwidth on the network and give you a much better user experience. Email is another important feature of the Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica. Without email, you would not be able to communicate with your office and inform them of all of the important activities that are going on around you. Google Chat is another useful Android tool that will allow you to communicate with friends, family, and co-workers who need your help. Remember that while all of these tools have good intentions, you can use them in bad ways. Just make sure to use all of the Android applications with respect and always try to download a new one for fun from the Android Marketplace. They have a wide selection!

Samsung i5700 "Galaxy-lite" gets WiFi approval — Android on the cheap?

Filed under: Handsets , Samsung , Android We can say with some confidence now that HTC's planning on taking Android to a new, mega-cheap market with the upcoming Click -- and as the old saying goes, when it rains, it pours. Samsung -- which also looks to be making an Android push, hot off the launch of its inaugural i7500 Galaxy -- has just garnered WiFi certification for a heretofore-unknown i5700 "Galaxy-lite," which certainly has all the makings of a stripped-down Galaxy from its model name and number

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