Samsung S5600 and S5230: The Touchscreen Phones in Europe
Mar 11, 2009 Mobile Phones
Samsung officially announced two new mobile phones with touch screen the new S5600 (left) and S5230 (right) both with TouchWiz interface. Both phones have a 3 Megapixel camera with smile detection feature, in addition to recording video.
The Samsung S5600 has a 2.8″ LCD screen, 16 million colors and a resolution of 240 × 320, while the Samsung S5230 has a 3″ LCD screen and 240 × 400 resolution. Both have other interesting features such as Bluetooth, FM tuner and support for multiple audio formats.
The S5600 supports dual-band HSDPA networks and Quad 3.5G GSM / GPRS / EDGE, while the S5230 is only EDGE quad. Come with internal memory of 80MB and 50MB respectively, and type of support microSDHC cards up to 8GB.
Samsung S5600 Product Specification;
Network: HSDPA 7.2 Mbps (900/2100MHz), EDGE/GPRS Quad Band (850/900/1800/1900MHz)
Display: 2.8” 16M TFT (240 x 320)
Camera: 3 Megapixel CMOS (Smile Shot)
Video: H.263 / H.264 / WMV / MPEG4, Video recording supporting QVGA@15fps
Audio: FM Radio with RDS, DNSe; MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, eAAC+, WMA, AMR,MIDI,SP-MIDI, i-melody, WAV
Value-added Features: Music Recognition/SNS/Photo Contact/Gesture Lock/Wide Idle screen
Google Search/ Google email/ Full Internet browsing / Photo browser; TouchWiz UI with Mobile Widget
Connectivity: Bluetooth v2.1 / USB 2.0 FS
Memory: Internal Memory 80 MB + External Memory slot : microSDHC™ (up to 8GB)
Size: 102.8 x 54.8 x 12.9mm
Battery: 1000 mAh
Samsung S5230 Product Specification
Network: EDGE/GPRS Quad Band (850/900/1800/1900MHz)
Display: 3.0” 262K WQVGA LCD (240×400)
Camera: 3 Megapixel CMOS (Smile Shot)
Video: H.263 /H.264/ MPEG4; Video recording supporting QVGA@15fps
Audio: FM Radio with RDS, DNSe; MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, eAAC+, WMA, AMR,MIDI,SP-MIDI, i-melody, WAV
Value-added Features: Music Recognition/SNS/Photo Contact/Gesture Lock/Wide Idle screen/Handwriting; TouchWiz UI with Mobile Widget; Google Search/ Google email/Full Internet browsing/Online Widget; Various full embedded games
Connectivity: Bluetooth v2.1 / USB 2.0 FS
Memory: Internal Memory 50 MB + External Memory slot : microSDHC™ (up to 8GB)
Size: 104 x 53 x 11.9 mm
Battery: 1000 mAh
The Samsung S5600 will be available in European countries from May to Samsung S5230 from April.
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Samsung’s latest touchscreen phones to hit Europe this Spring
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