The first image and details of the Samsung SPH-M800 have been revealed.
The phone will have a QVGA touch screen and virtual keyboard similar to the iPhone, but will run a custom Sprint user interface as well as feature Bluetooth with stereo audio support, 2.0 megapixel camera with video recorder, 130 MB internal memory with microSD expansion, EV-DO, (unconfirmed reports state that it will feature Rev. A access) and support for Power Vision services such as Sprint Music Store, Sprint TV, and Sprint Navigation.
No more details are available, but the device is expected later in the first quarter of the year.
And yet another ripoff of the “God phone”…
And yet you’ve not even seen the phone yet.
I think it looks great, but I think they could have done better than QVGA.
Does it have wi-fi? What browser is it going to use? If they want this phone to compete with the iPhone (which is obvious that they do, just looking at the design, even down to the way the signal strength is designed) then the phone needs to make sure it measures up. No buggy typical Samsung buggy software, and it better have a good battery!
Looks ok to me, especially if it has rev.A or can be upgraded to it
the god phone?
You mean that phone that has had the biggest problems of any phone?
Taking a whole college’s wireless down because the phone was so poorly designed it kept swallowing up available IP addresses?
or do you mean that phone that is designed to do multimedia better than anyphone but runs on the slowest wireless network available.
Or the God phone that can’t do anything in relation to work…
my phone does what the iphone does, costs have as much, gets work email, I can remote computers and on and on and on.
The iphone is cool but the ONLY reason it sold so many is because so many people like the ipod (understandably) and anyone who is a Mac lover will praise the phone regardless of how good or bad it is.
It’s a good bet that Dan is a Mac user.
Let’s see… God phone… God… If we take into account that God challenged us with free will, and as a part of that freedom, further challenges us to use our bare hands to do great things, then yes this is a God phone. Because in order to use the phone for anything truly productive takes an act of God – sure, if you consider listening to music, watching videos, surfing websites until you are blue, productive then it must be a God phone.
The iPhone is more like that collection of power tools in the garage – sure they look good sitting there, and sure are impressive to your buddies, but when was the last time you used them for anything really productive?
Hang on J.C is calling… oh wait, wrong number.
I find it so very funny and one sided….
Mac users whine and complain that Microsoft stole their platform ideas..
Which is mostly true.. But the first one isn’t always the best…
Ford’s invention was slightly improved upon by Ferrari…
But for some reason Mac users don’t have a problem stealing Microsoft ideas..
Windows Mobile phones have been around for quite a few years now…
Wonder why that is???
Anyway – way off topic about this phone. Looks OK but doesn’t appear to me to be challenge to any PDA. just plays multimedia like the iPhone and TV unlike the iPhone. Since that would require speed..
I’d say Ferrari is much improved 🙂
Eventually Apple will succumb to it’s own grandeur, not realizing it’s lagged behind those constantly innovating and improving upon Apple’s idea. And then there will be this lull, which Apple will capitalize on by realizing everyone elses misses Applw will then develop the misses into a new product that will be a hot fad, launching others into popularity, but still will not launch them in to first place, settling instead for a warm second or third.
i would get it if it ran WM6 on it. Reason being i can tweak it to how i want it to function (like i’ve done on the mogul) LOL…. then install the latest opera and i’m set!
oh i forgot… Samsung should have kept the slide out keyboard.
Whatever’s comments are poorly-informed. For example, iPhone was not responsible for taking down a college’s Wi-Fi network. Cisco admitted that their routers at Duke University had a flaw that could not handle the influx of traffic from iPhone’s wireless chipset.
Stop hating on this phone, maybe it is not as good as the iphone, but Samsung did a very good job and its a nice slick phone for Sprint, I can’t wait to get it.
So if Sprint or any other company didn’t get a phone similar to the iphone than they would be mocked for not keeping up with the times. But since they have one now there mocked for being a copy cat. Dammit its a loose loose situation with you people.
But on the subject of the phone very nice goos stuff from samsung.
Poorly informed is incorrect.
Cisco MIGHT have taken the hit but that only means they found a way to compensate for the poorly designed iphone wifi. 100s of other wifi devices totalling 1000s of wifi connections didn’t cause a problem. Why is it that all the other devices played nicely until iphone came along?
Again, you have your facts wrong. Cisco admitted that there was a flaw in their access point firmware, which interferred with iPhone’s Wi-Fi hardware. It’s not a matter of “taken a hit”… Cisco was not in compliance with Wi-Fi due to a bug, and they fixed it. It’s just that simple.
iPhone used a wireless chipset that was not available in previous devices. It used the latest Wi-Fi spec code, and as you will learn down the road I’m sure… not all Wi-Fi hardware talks to each other properly. When you add hundreds of devices that don’t talk well (the majority due to a bug in firmware), networks can indeed go down. If Apple was at fault, they would have admitted it and we would have reported it. But Cisco admitted the bug was on their end.
If you find any sources that dispute that (that are dated after Cisco admitted what I said above), I’d be happy to see it.
The IPhone running on ATT 2g network is hardly a god anything!
Listen to Mr price up there, its all politics my friend obviously wouldnt want to get his brand new product tarnished by people saying that its taking down networks in colleges, so what do they do they give a little money to cisco so that they say they had some problems on the current series of routers provided to that college and apple does not get its brand new toy tarnished by such comments and keeps its costumers interested into continue to buy it, everybody wins my friend everybody. Think outside the box stop relying on what you read try and point out the obvious sometimes.
I find your theory that Apple paid Cisco to take a fall over iPhone’s compatibility with their network to be… unlikely to say the least.
First, Cisco and Apple were embroiled in the iPhone name rights debate around that time. It would be unlikely they would be on friendly enough terms to make such a transaction happen.
Furthermore, it would have required bribing Duke University officials, since they said they deployed a patch from Cisco to fix Cisco’s issues on their network. I find that even less likely.
I’m putting your idea in the conspiracy theory file… it just isn’t plausible.
YA’LL NEED TO HAVE THE IPHONE TALK ON AN IPHONE FORUM…
1. The Samsung is with Sprint not AT&T, IPHONE NOT ON SPRINT…That is one reason not to have the “conversation here”
2. So what it has the same capabilities the IPHONE does…(Hell they all have flip phones and camera phones, and pda phones…. GET OVER IT) if it works and it sells.. then great, if it doesnt work, then well it happens.
3. I think the above phone is nice, and it isnt a matter of whos phone is better then whos, it is a matter who wants to spend what on which phone, and what carrier your with. Some ppl dont have the patience, the money or the time to deal with AT&T and their prices and some ppl just like sprint better, and some ppl just dont care as long as they have a working phone.
4. So please chill out because some of us would really like opinions on the above phone.. that is the reason we are here and not on and IPHONE forum!
I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH STOP IT!!!
THIS IS NOT THE PLACE WHERE TO SPEAK ON THE IPHONE BUT ABOUT THE SAMSUNG M800!!!
YES THE IPHONE CAN BE GREAT TO YOU AND NOT AS GREAT TO OTHERS! BUT WHAT WE REALLY WANT TO KNOW IS HOW GREAT THIS PHONE WILL BE AND SELL AT SPRINT LOCATIONS FOR OUR SPRINT CUSTOMERS! SINCE I WORK FOR SPRINT I HAVE TO KNOW HOW PAOPLE FEEL ABOUT THIS NEW PHONE!!!
HOPEFULLY IT WILL PICK UP OUR SALES FOR NEXT MONTH!
My contract for Sprint ends April 1st but how much is this going to cost?!?!?
Word is the phone is somewhere in the 4-500s with a release date of 04/20/08.
Here is the Sprint site with all the details on the m800 including the release month of June: http://www.nowisgood.com/?id9=SEM