Samsung Announces GPS Navigator Smartphone Based on Symbian OS

Samsung i550 on display at the Symbian Smartphone Show

The Symbian Smartphone Show, London, UK –October 16, 2007–Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd and Symbian Limitedtoday announced the Samsung i550, Samsung’s first GPS navigator equipped smartphone at the Smartphone Show in London, UK.  Packed with multimedia capabilities and fast Internet speed, the Samsung i550 is the latest addition to the Symbian smartphone family from Samsung Electronics.  

With a candy bar-type design, the new Samsung i550 is based on Symbian OS™ v9.2 and is on display at the Samsung stand at the Symbian Smartphone Show. Also based on S60 3^rd Edition, Feature Pack 1, Samsung i550 users can choose from thousands of applications from the S60 applications library and have access to their favorites by using dedicated hot keys.  With the GPS navigator function, voice activated turn-by-turn guidance makes it easy for car drivers to find directions while pedestrian mode offers specific locations and directions at walking speeds.

Web browsing and access to Web 2.0 services are made easy on the  Samsung i550 as it’s based on HSDPA 3.6 Mbps and has full browsing with a high capacity memory of 128 MB RAM. Viewing and surfing web content becomes more convenient through trackball navigation and a 2.6” optimized LCD. The SGH-i550 includes a 3.2 megapixel camera with video editing functionality. It features 150MB of internal user memory and an FM radio.   

The Samsung -i550 will be available in Europe from November 2007.

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Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones known as smartphones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. During Q2 2007, 18.7 million Symbian smartphones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian smartphones shipped up to 30 June 2007 to 145 million.

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