Samsung i300 (O2)
Samsung i300 smartphone, available only to O2 customers.
Exclusive to O2 in the UK, the Samsung i300 combines a phone, digital camera, Windows Media player and email client, replacing the need for separate devices and providing a truly converged mobile solution for fantastic music performance with world-class phone features.
Music enthusiasts are able to store up to 1000 music files on the Samsung i300 smartphone’s 3GB hard drive. Powered by Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 and Windows Mobile software, the Samsung i300 smartphone provides consumers with a highly-compatible and familiar platform for downloading, managing and storing files from their PCs onto their Samsung i300 smartphone handsets. With high-quality dual stereo speakers and scroll-wheel navigation, the Samsung i300 smartphone can also be used on the go with a pair of stereo Bluetooth headphones.
Window Mobile enables users to easily communicate with friends, family or colleagues via instant message through MSN Messenger, via SMS and MMS or via email through Outlook. Plug & Play features allow users to quickly share contacts and calendar information between Outlook on their computers and on Samsung i300 smartphones, or to use the Samsung i300 smartphone as a 3GB hard disk, enabling the backup of critical files and data on their PC.
Samsung i300 smartphone Features a 1.3 megapixel camera with flash, and a Micro SD external memory option, photography buffs can take advantage of the Samsung i300 smartphone’s superior digital still and video recording capabilities. Samsung i300 smartphone Users can record, send, and receive still photographs and video clips instantaneously, whenever and wherever they desire.
As convergence technologies come to the forefront of phone innovation, the Samsung i300 smartphone provides a music phone with a familiar interface, compatible with Windows on a PC, to allow users to carry their music library with them. Samsung, Microsoft and O2 have worked together to bring the Samsung i300 smartphone to market – a converged device which drives ahead their digital strategy to meet consumer desires to acquire, consume and share digital media.
Samsung is proud to be working in partnership with O2 and Microsoft. The collaboration of network operator, hardware and software vendor has helped us bring to market a device that delivers mass-music capabilities and sound quality through a familiar interface, and which is compatible with the world’s most commonly used operating system,
said Mark Mitchinson, Director, Samsung Mobile UK.
The Samsung i300 music phone not only catapults Samsung into the music and entertainment industry, but provides consumers with a more efficient, cost-effective and accessible solution to their combined mobile and multi-media needs.
The Samsung i300 smartphone is a crucial addition to our portfolio of music and multi-media phones and is an important step in the development of mobile music. O2 is committed to music and believes that it is important to offer customers a variety of ways to access and listen to music on the move. We also believe that this choice is essential to the growth of the mobile music market.
said Ian Clarke, Head of Devices at O2.
With the vast hard drive capacity, excellent sound quality and digital video and photo capabilities the Samsung i300 smartphone is a great must have for the year-end shopping list, and we’re pleased to have it available in time for Christmas. It’s a fantastic device for users to access their audio and visual media on the go.
The new Samsung i300 music phone will be sold exclusively through O2 in the UK until 22nd January 2006, and is available for purchase both online, and in stores. For more information, and to purchase the Samsung i300 smartphone, visit: www.o2.com. (15/12/05) image source: VoIP Blog
‘Tech Digest‘ think the Samsung i300 is one of the best phones of 2005:
The first hard disk phone to hit Europe is a goodie. The Samsung i300 is not too big, performs the basics well, features a 1.3 mega pixel camera and has tons of room (well three Gigabytes to be precise) for your music.