The

Samsung The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the ...

GT-I7500 Galaxy is a

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that uses the open source Android

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. It was announced on 27 April 2009 and was released on 29 June 2009 as the first Android-powered device from

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, and the first in what would become the long-running Galaxy series. It is succeeded by the

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The Galaxy is a smartphone, offering quad-band

GSM The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation ( 2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such ...

and announced with tri-band

HSDPA High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is an amalgamation of two mobile protocols—High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA)—that extends and improves the performance of existing 3G mobile telecommunic ...

(900/1700/2100) at 7.2Mbit/s (however, Samsung's official pages for the Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish versions only mention dual-band

UMTS The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a third generation mobile cellular system for networks based on the GSM standard. Developed and maintained by the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project), UMTS is a component of the In ...

900/2100). The phone features a 3.2-inch

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capacitive

touchscreen A touchscreen or touch screen is the assembly of both an input ('touch panel') and output ('display') device. The touch panel is normally layered on the top of an electronic visual display of an information processing system. The display is ofte ...

, a 5

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autofocus camera with power LED flash, and a digital compass. Unlike the first Android phone, the

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(known as the T-Mobile G1 in the USA), the i7500 has a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, and a Directional Pad in place of a trackball. Software-wise, the Galaxy offers a suite of Mobile Google services, including

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Search,

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, Google Calendar, and Google Talk. The phone's

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enables

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features such as My Location, and

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. It also supports

MP3 MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany, with support from other digital scientists in the United States and elsewhere. Origin ...

, AAC (including iTunes Plus downloads) (only the codec, not the .aac format), and

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video. A beta version of the

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music streaming service is also now available for this phone via the Android Marketplace.

Criticism

Due to a lack of firmware updates, Samsung received criticism from original Galaxy users. For some countries, Samsung updated the Galaxy's firmware to

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(1.6). Users from other countries could download and update manually, at the risk of voiding the warranty.

References

External links

Samsung Mobile homepage

Official press release

Samsung Galaxy I7500 Owners Group
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Criticism

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