Now days, most smartphone makers are supporting more than one OS on their cellphone hardware. Smartphone makers like HTC, Motorola and Samsung who initially supported Windows Mobile OS, are investing in other cellphone OSs, as Windows Mobile market share continues to decrease. Following suit, Samsung has announced their new i7110 smartphone, which is based on Symbian S60 platform. The other feature on i7110 that Samsung is highlighting is the bright and colorful 2.6-inch AMOLED screen.
For communication the phone supports HSDPA (900/2100MHz), quad band GSM/EDGE, WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS. The GPS supports both pedestrian navigation and in-car navigation, with a built-in FM transmitter that sends spoken directions through car stereo system. The camera on the phone has 5-megapixel resolution and it supports autofocus, smile-shot, blink-shot and LED flash. There is a second camera on top of the screen from video calls.
The i7110 comes with just 50MB of onboard storage, but it support microSD card up to 16GB. The media player on the phone can play almost all the audio/video codec commonly used. The phone measures 4.64” x 2.04” x 0.50”. It’s battery life is rated 6 hours of 3G talk time and 451 hours of standby. The phone will be launch in Russia next month; Europe and Asia will get the phone by end of 2008. Samsung hasn’t announced pricing for the phone yet.