Samsung S5600 (also known as Samsung Preston or Samsung Player Star (in France)) was announced in March 2009 and released in June 2009 as part of a range of touch-screen smartphones being released by

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. The phone has a (240 x 320 pixels) QVGA full-touch screen, and OS TouchWiz User Interface and "Gesture Lock" feature. A 3.2

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camera, music recognition via the use of Shazam's "Find Music" service, and multi-codec support including

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(mp4), and

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. The connectivity for Internet is 7.2 Mbit/s HSDPA.

Language support

The phone was the first phone to support the

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and it followed an earlier experiment by the Samsung company who released a phone that supported the

Irish language Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was ...

. The phone has a Welsh menu and a predictive text facility that calls on a database of 44,000 words in Welsh. The phone was offered just in Orange shops in Wales in 2009.Orange to offer Welsh language 5600
Pocket-Lint, August 2009, accessed March 2012

References

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