Samsung shows off 1xEV-DO phone
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By: Jørgen Sundgot, Monday, 13.05.02 14:48 GMT
Samsung is at it again; the company's new SCH-V300 cranks data along at transfer speeds of up to 2.4 Mbps, while sporting a 260,000-color TFT LCD and an integrated digital camera.
After becoming one of the earliest companies to introduce a CDMA2000 1xRTT product, Samsung Samsung continued tinkering in its labs - and the result is its new SCH-V300 1xEV-DO mobile phone with a TFT LCD capable of showing up to 260,000 colors. Since the SCH-V300 is a 1xEV-DO product, it is also capable of sending and receiving data at speeds of up to 2.4 Mbps, which by far exceeds the transmission speeds of any other mobile phone today.
If you're in need of high-speed data transfers, all you need is the SCH-V300 (and a 1xEV-DO network)
Samsung's EV-DO phone uses a streaming format to support video on demand and audio on demand, and Samsung mentions content such as music videos, Internet broadcasts, animated films and news reports can be received on-demand. Users can also download, store and play back video clips on the SCH-V300's TFT LCD, developed exclusively in-house by the Samsung Electronics Digital Device Solution Division - large enough to display up to 12 lines of text at a time.
The phone has an embedded 110,000-pixel camera that enables users to take digital pictures and send them to other mobile phones via SMS and to computer via e-mail as well. Up to 100 still photos can be stored in the phone, according to Samsung, and used as a background for the display. The camera rotates 180 degrees to facilitate picture taking from any angle.
MMS is also supported, allowing users to compose messages that encompass voice, image, text and background music instead of just voice mail and e-mail. In addition, an independent voice recognition function dials the numbers of names in the phonebook without the need for a prerecording.
As it common with Asian phones, the SCH-V300 also comes with a 40-chord progression polyphonic ring tone, while other features include a 3D interface and menus that switch between Korean and English. The phone measures 95 mm x 50 mm x 22.5 mm, weighs 110g and offers a talk time of up to 150 minutes and a standby time of up to 120 hours.
The SCH-V300 will initially be supplied to the SK Telecom IMT-2000 Test Group, and Samsung Electronics also said the company is about to come out with an EV-DO mobile phone model that supports videoconferencing.
A Samsung spokesperson said, "We are initially supplying the phone [to SK Telecom], and it will be available to the general public by the end of May. The CDMA2000 1xEV-DO service will become the Korean market mainstream in the second half of this year, and we plan to not only bolster the status of the Samsung mobile brand but also lead the way to IMT-2000." |
