Samsung i8510 Innov8 Gets Shown Off in NYC
Honestly, we don’t know whether to laugh or cry. What would you say if we told you that the hottest most well-specced S60 handset in the world was made by Samsung as opposed to Nokia? What would you say if we told you that Samsung finally came around and threw a quad-band GSM antenna into it? Right, us too! Now what would you say if we also told you that Samsung opted out of WCDMA 850, leaving North Americans to hunt for WiFi when we need to get our high-speed on? Heart wrenching, we know. The phrase “so close but yet so far” seems apropo. Last night Samsung made a reality out of the rumored 8 megapixel beast of a slider otherwise known as i8510. Its specs are amazing:
- Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz), dual-band WCDMA (900/2100MHz)
- Symbian 9.3 S60 3rd Edition FP2
- 2.8″ 16m color QVGA TFT display
- Built-in GPS receiver and accelerometer
- WiFi
- 8 megapixel autofocus camera with image stabilization and face, smile, and blink detection
- Video recording QVGA @ 120 fps or VGA @ 30fps with full editing suite onboard
- 16GB internal storage, microSD card slot
- Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
- 106.5mm x 53.9mm x 17.2mm (3.9″ x 1.9″ x 0.6″)
- 1200mAh battery
N96? What’s that? An S60 smartphone that will have WCDMA 850, that’s what. If not for the AT&T 3G compatibility issues you can believe that we would be snatching up the Innov8 faster than you can say “Europe’s hottest S60 camera phone”. 2009 should be an interesting year for S60, to say the least.
With All those Features, I will find a way to live on T*Mobiles Edge Network. I can’t wait to get it in my hands!
Samsung needs to travel outside of Korea and look for their brain. Perhaps along with it they will find that there’s also the “Other side” of the world which uses 850 and 1700 Mhz WCDMA. GET A LIFE Sammy…you might have a winner. For the time being – this is a wienner
any one have any idea about dual band ( gsm/cdma) mobile phone please tell me.
this post is very good review. keep it up
nice post and very good review . phone looks very good
UGGGGH NO AT&T 3G!!! So close to this being the phone that will replace my N95 8G!
I SEE LG SHINE Model CU720 RIPOFF! lol
Despite that…this phone will seem to be a much improved and better overall phone then the SHINE!!
what is the price ?
pulling an htc eh?
Would this be the case of another “it’s S60 OS but you can’t install any nokia software into it” phone again?
This thing looks exactly like the N95 lol!
i wonder if its as thick as the n96 tho…
“apropos” has an ’s’ in it
I’m definitely getting this. I live in Canada, so data rates are too expensive for 3G anyway. >.<
Pity no 3G – My last samsung product was similar – revolutionary on some fronts, but sadly lacking in one or two basic details.
it’s hot!
and apropos does NOT mean the same thing as appropriate, which is clearly what you meant.
Is this gana be for t-mobile?
@riz: The author’s usage of ‘apropos’ is correct, cut ‘em some slack. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/apropos?r=75
think i just died and went to heaven
Hey now, I didn’t think all caps on ‘not’ would constitute flying off the handle.
That said, do you think he meant “pertinent,” or do you think he meant “fitting a particular occasion”?
from your source:
http://m.reference.com/d/search.html?q=appropriate
our comments are apropos, that quote was appropriate.
This phone is being launched in Europe this month.
Its the first phone with:
*Smile Detection and blink detection
Besides the regular Image Stabilizer and Face detection that Samsung phones provide.