Did we hear that right -Windows Mobile on a Samsung phone?
With the Bada already out on public (along with Samsung’s Bada challenge), most of us are thinking that Samsung would no longer be coming up with another WinMo phone (oh, wait, that’s actually Sony Ericsson).
Seriously speaking, the Bada operating system is Samsung’s newly launched proprietary platform. They recently held a very successful launched as they presented the OS to, the wisely chosen crowd, developers! No one else can support an operating system more than developers, and with companies like EA, Capcom and Gameloft being present, we can be sure that even Bada’s games will be worth looking forward to. Anyway, the story now is, despite the release of their Bada, Samsung is still working on other operating systems.
Two devices were announced; the first, is the i6500 Saturn. This phone will be carrying the Google brand (literally). Initial reports state that the phone will use Android 1.5 Cupcake, an 800 MHz processor and a 3.2 inch touch screen display. This news raises a few eyebrows mostly because of the fact that the device will be seeing an old version of the Android OS, if this phone is truly a Google phone, it should at least be running version 2.0 Éclair.
The other phone is a rumored Windows Mobile device named the i899. It will have a 3.5 inch AMOLED touch screen with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and micro SD card support. It will also have a 3 mega pixel snapper. Since this phone will be using an AMOLED screen, it is quite possible that the device will be using the capacitive touch screen version of WinMo 6.5 (or maybe a modified TouchWiz interface).
Samsung has yet to make an official announcement about either one of these devices.
Tags: Samsung-i899, Samsung-Saturn-i6500