Samsung have obviously been using the Royal Mail to shuttle their corporate updates around the globe, as three weeks after Samsung Russia officially announced the Galaxy Spica I5700 the company’s Korean HQ have pushed out their own press release. As before, they’ve confirmed that the Android-based Spica has an 800MHz processor, 3.2-megapixel camera and 3.5mm headphone jack, all in a casing measuring 13.2mm thick.
Samsung Russia have officially announced the Galaxy Spica, the company’s second Android smartphone and the moderately-diminuative follow-up to the Galaxy I7500. The Samsung Spica has a 3.2-inch display, 800MHz processor and 128MB of memory, according to the press release, together with quadband GSM and dualband 900/2100 UMTS/HSPA.
The Samsung i5700 Spica (aka Galaxy Lite) may still be some way off – early 2010, in fact, if the rumors are to be believed – but that hasn’t stopped some pre-production units arriving into hands early. ai.rs have managed to acquire a device and, after masking what we’re assuming is a carrier logo, have made a video preview.
Video demo after the cut
It feels like its been a long time since we last saw the Samsung i5700 Android phone, the so-called Galaxy Lite the company are positioning as an entry level counterpart to the i7500, and in fact the last we did see was a non-functional store model. So we’re glad that the 3-inch AMOLED touchscreen handset has shown up again, this time fully functional and in the hands of Cellularmania.
Good news and bad, today, for those hoping for Samsung’s i5700 aka the Galaxy Lite. According to dial-a-phone, the i7500’s little sibling has been pushed back into 2010, rather than launching later on in 2009 as originally planned, so as to give its bigger sibling more chance to rack up sales.
Well they say time files when you are having fun, but they never mention how fast time flies when you are typing your fingers to bleeding nubs to bring your wonderful readers all the gadget news fit to print and then some. Here we are again with another week in review for your reading pleasure. Spotify hit iPhone and Android devices this week. So many people grabbed the app that the free service quickly went back to invite only status. Sony unveiled a super-thin new wireless HDTV this week that makes Paris Hilton look fat by comparison. I am almost afraid to find out what the thin and feature packed set will cost.
It’s the second Android handset we’ve seen today, and certainly the most luminous. Samsung’s I5700 Galaxy Lite has turned up over at ai.rs, the smaller sibling to the existing Android Galaxy phone already on sale in Europe, complete with a 3.2-megapixel fixed-focus camera and 1GB of internal storage.
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