Unboxing Samsung i7500 Galaxy
October 29th, 2009 • Blog, Other, Web
So I finally managed to get my hands on the newly released (here in Portugal anyway) Samsung i7500 Galaxy from TMN and capture some shots from the unboxing.
The phone is the first Samsung carrying the Android operating system (Android OS v1.5 without customizations) and has a nice3.2″ capacitive AMOLED touchscreen (but no multi-touch gestures), Wifi, 3.5mm headphone jack, 8GB of onboard storage, Accelerometer and lot’s of other fancy characteristics. All this on only 116g of weight.
Some photos:
Lot’s of stuff in the box, including a NDrive gps licence for Portugal.
You can see more photos in my Flickr account.
Liked
It’s Android, baby. Very easy to use and with lot’s of apps available on the Android Marketplace. Speed is also a plus because it’s 3G enabled with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and supports Wifi (b/g). Browsing the web is a sweet experience.
The screen is gorgeous. :)
Disliked
I can’t buy Android Apps in Portugal, so that leaves a part of the Android Market incomplete. Not nice.
Camera doesn’t have any options, just press the button and take a photo. Since it’s a 5MP camera, they could have improved it more.
2-3 seconds and the screen is locked. Annoying.
Could have been further customized by Samsung.
Overall
A great device, it’s no iPhone killer but worth the price considering the specs and the software.
I haven’t tried the GPS maps and I can’t comment on the battery life but I’ll probably do a follow up post on worthwhile apps to download so send me some suggestions if you know something worth trying.
