The Samsung Galaxy Spica, also known as Samsung Spica, Samsung GT-I5700, Samsung Galaxy Lite and Samsung Galaxy Portal, is a

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manufactured by

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that uses the open source

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operating system. The phone is positioned below the

Samsung Galaxy (original) The Samsung GT-I7500 Galaxy is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung that uses the open source Android operating system. It was announced on 27 April 2009 and was released on 29 June 2009 as the first Android-powered device from Samsung Mobile ...

. Even though some of its features like the camera resolution, storage and data connection speeds are lower than the i7500, its processor's clock speed is much higher at 800 MHz. It is succeeded by the Samsung Galaxy 3.

Features

The Galaxy Spica is a 3G smartphone, offering quad-band GSM and announced with two-band HSDPA (900/2100) at 3.6Mbit/s. The phone features a 3.2-inch

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capacitive

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, a 3.2

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autofocus camera, and a digital compass. The i5700 has a standard 3.5mm headphone jack and is equipped with DNSe 2.0. Software-wise, the Galaxy Spica offers a suite of Mobile Google services, including Google Search, Gmail,

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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, Google Latitude, and

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. It also supports MP3,

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(including

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Plus downloads), WMA audio, and H.264 video. The phone is also capable of playing DivX and Xvid coded content which makes it the first Android phone that supports this feature.

Availability

The phone was available in

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and

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. The i5700 is Samsung's second Android-based handset for Europe. The phone was released in December 2009 in

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and is released in

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on the Rogers Communications network.

Software

The Samsung Galaxy Spica has received an update to

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Eclair as of February 2010. Some phone vendors, such as Three and T-Mobile in the UK, have started shipping the phone with 2.1 Eclair preloaded. As of May 2010, phones have started to sell in

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and

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with the 2.1 Eclair update preloaded. The only official method for updating the Spica is via Samsung's PC Studio software and not, unlike others, via

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. It is not possible to update Branded phones in this way. In this case, the phones needs to be updated by an official Samsung Partner. However, unsupported methods are available using a combination of third-party software and a range of available firmware from Android 1.5 Cupcake to alpha versions of Android 2.2 Froyo, Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.CyanogenMod 9 Unofficial Builds
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References

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Features

Availability

Software

See also

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