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Future Samsung Phone Plans Leaked
djgil writes "Looks like Samsung needs to be more careful what they do with their powerpoints. A number of prototype Samsung phones have appeared online including three that used Windows Mobile. One phone uses a 500Mhz processor and other had a 3Gbyte Hard Drive for music."
I managed to get a mirror if needed.
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Over 200 Gmail accounts!
Whether it is a stunt or not, I'm never going to buy a Samsung again.
After owning first a Nokia, and then a Sony Erikson, I now own a Samsung phone, and although the phone looks nice, it is horrible to use compared to my old phone. The care wasn't taken to make it useable.
Things like text messages being start in Upper Case (without settings to change it) and if you were to press the Big-Red-Button by accident whilst typing a text message, the message will be lost without any confirmation, nor does it save it to "Drafts", for example. The better hardware was made less useful due to bad userinterface. The Sony, on the other hand, was made far more useable and a better phone, even lacking the extra features of the Samsung Hardware (big colour screen, video recording, lots of memory, etc).
Although the phones this article is about are very different to the phone I have, I still don't think I could trust buying another Samsung phone, after getting this one and being constantly irritated by it.
Saying that, how deep does Windows Mobile go? As much as people reading this message will hate Microsoft, they'll probably admit they constantly do a good job of user interfaces, so maybe these ones won't be too bad? Although a phone which can play music... Hmm. Not sure I want one of those.
- Jax
As far as I understand it, the big issue with phones is that they have to be approved by the FCC as they're regulated radio devices. Images and specification documents become public government documents once the phone is submitted for approval.
And entire websites (such as Phone Scoop) have grown around this advance information. They typically have specifications and images about 6 months before they hit the market.
For example, here's the news posting on Phone Scoop about those Samsung phones (including at least one model number). Follow the "Full Story.." link in that article for the FCC filing.