Samsung I7500 with OLED touchscreen powered by Android Live

April 27, 2009, Seoul, Korea - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading
mobile phone provider, today unveiled the I7500, its first
Android-powered mobile phone. With a launch of I7500, Samsung became
the first company among the global top three mobile phone manufacturers
to unveil an Android-powered phone.

"Samsung is among the
earliest members of the Open Handset Alliance and has been actively
moving forward to introduce the most innovative Android mobile phone,"
said JK Shin, Executive Vice President and Head of Mobile Communication
Division in Samsung Electronics. "With Samsung's accumulated technology
leadership in mobile phone industry and our consistent strategy to
support every existing operating system, I believe that Samsung
provides the better choices and benefits to our consumers" he added.

The
Samsung I7500 is a cutting-edge smartphone, featuring a 3.2" AMOLED
full touch screen and 7.2Mbps HSDPA and WiFi connectivity, giving users
access to Google™ Mobile services and full web browsing at blazing
speeds.

The Samsung I7500 offers users access to the full
suite of Google services, including Google Search™, Google Maps™,
Gmail™, YouTube™, Google Calendar™, and Google Talk™. The integrated
GPS receiver enables the comprehensive use of Google Maps features,
such as My Location, Google Latitude, Street View, local search and
detailed route description. Hundreds of other applications are
available in Android Market. For example, the application Wikitude, a
mobile travel guide, allows consumers to access details of unknown
sights via location-based Wikipedia articles.

Based on
Samsung's proven product leadership, Samsung I7500 comes with latest
multimedia features. The large and vivid 3.2"AMOLED display ensures the
brilliant representation of multimedia content and enjoyable full touch
mobile experience. Along with supporting a 5-megapixel camera and
various multimedia codec formats, the I7500 also provides a long enough
battery life (1500mAh) and generous memory capacity up to 40GB
(Internal memory: 8GB, External memory: Up to 32GB) to enjoy all the
applications and multimedia content. The phone also boasts its slim and
compact design with mere 11.9mm thickness.

The Samsung I7500 will be available in major European countries from June, 2009.

HSDPA 7.2Mbps / HSUPA 5.76Mbps (900 / 1700/ 2100MHz)
EDGE / GPRS (850/ 900/1800/1900)
OS
Android
Display
3.2" HVGA(320x480) AMOLED
Camera
5 MP Camera (Auto Focus), Power LED
Video / Audio
Video: MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV
Audio: MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, RA
Value Added
Features
Full Web Browser Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Android Market
Connectivity
Bluetooth® 2.0, USB 2.0, WiFi, MicroUSB, 3.5mm ear jack
Memory
Internal memory: 8GB
External memory: Micro SD (Up to 32GB)
Battery
1500 mAh
Size
115 x 56 x 11.9mm

* Google, Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Calendar, Google Talk are trademarks of Google Inc.

1 Million Google Android Phones sold by T-Mobile

T-Mobile’s Google Android smartphone has reached one million in US sales in the six months since the phone launched. The smartphone now accounts for almost two thirds of all of the 3G devices available on the T-Mobile.

T-Mobile is the US’s fourth largest wireless network operator and has
over 32.1 million customers. The company started selling the G1
Smartphone on October 22, 2008.

It is being reported by mobile advertising specialist AdMob that the
Android OS now accounts for 6% for the entire smartphone market in the
United States. Though the popularity is increasing, Android still has a
while to go until it beats out Windows Mobile, which holds an 11%
market share, the Blackberry OS at 22% and the iPhone, which takes the
cake with 50% of the smartphone market in the U.S.

During a
conference call last week Eric Schmidt, Google CEO stated that he felt
the Android had a chance for great success this year. Schmidt claimed
that the open source strategy was gaining ground and hinted that the
company would deliver future announcements.

“There are
announcements happening between now and the end of the year that are
quite significant from operators and new hardware partners in the
Android space, which I won't preannounce except to say that they really
do fulfill much of the vision that we laid out more than a year ago,”
stated Schmidt during the call. “On the netbook side, there are a
number of people who have actually taken Android and ported it over to
netbook or netbook-similar devices.”

via: TGDAILY

HP Confirms Considering Android in Netbooks

Hewlett-Packard confirmed Tuesday that it is testing Google's Android operating system as a possible alternative to Windows in some of its netbook computers.

Analysts said the move would allow HP to develop a low-cost netbook
optimized for wireless networks that provides access to Web-based
services such as Google Docs, but others questioned whether the Google
software is ready for such a task.

"Right now Android is
barely finished for phones," said Avi Greengart, an analyst at Current
Analysis. While it works well enough for T-Mobile's G1 smartphone, the
software was released only last year and "the UI still feels
half-finished," he said.

HP stressed that it was still only
testing Android, an OS based on the open-source Linux kernel. It has
assigned engineers to the task but has made no decision yet whether to
offer Android in products, said HP spokeswoman Marlene Somsak.

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