any hope... whatsoever??

[SDscorch]

so... i'm kinda likin this i7500



but, is there any hope whatsoever this phone will come out on ANY other network than t-mobile??

[theway2live]

i thought it was a SPRINT phone.

[Fare]

ABANDON ALL HOPE!

sorry, I wanted to be melodramatic too...

[SDscorch]

heh! "abandon all hope.. ye who enter here!"

nice!





no seriously.. from early posts i read it would operate on t-mo freqs

i'd never heard it was going to be on sprint - that would be cool


(on sprint now! heh!)

[Fare]

but, is there any hope whatsoever this phone will come out on ANY other network than t-mobile??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I7500

"It is also expected to be available from T-Mobile in some other markets, including the US."

[SDscorch]

yepyep



crap


by all indications... t-mobile it is

the sprint thing woulda been nice..


*sigh*

[DrVeronica]

aaaah my future phone....how my heart skips a beat when I read your name :rolleyes:

tmo here though, sorry :(

[Fare]

I wonder if there's any hope of it being under $400 w/o a plan ;)

[DrVeronica]

I wonder if there's any hope of it being under $400 w/o a plan ;)

god that would be heaven-sent!

[kitsunisan]

If it is, I'll get the Hero when it comes out on t-mobile with my contract, and the i7500 I'll buy without the contract. I'll need an HTC phone if I'm going to be on xda.

[LazyGenius]

If it is, I'll get the Hero when it comes out on t-mobile with my contract, and the i7500 I'll buy without the contract. I'll need an HTC phone if I'm going to be on xda.

they will be able to hack the i7500 wont they??

[Andrea]

OMG So excited! It looks SO sexy.

[kitsunisan]

they will be able to hack the i7500 wont they??

Everything gets hacked eventually, but not at XDA, I believe they are an HTC-only forum. That's what makes me sad about getting it, I need to search the web to find a new home for hacking this beastie.

[ma3a20]

Everything gets hacked eventually, but not at XDA, I believe they are an HTC-only forum. That's what makes me sad about getting it, I need to search the web to find a new home for hacking this beastie.

Please do inform us if you do find such a place on the interwebs.

[smasraum]

Everything gets hacked eventually, but not at XDA, I believe they are an HTC-only forum. That's what makes me sad about getting it, I need to search the web to find a new home for hacking this beastie.

I thought that they also did Windows Mobile stuff.

< edit >

I just did some searching. Apparently XDA is specifically for HTC PDA phones.


This site is about certain PDA-phones, made by a firm called HTC in Taiwan.

[Crashdamage]

SDscorch said:

(on sprint now! heh!)You have my sympathies. I live in the hometown of Sprint's World Headquarters. It's almost a ghost town, at least 2/3 empty. They've laid off everyone they can without locking the doors, they're hurtin' in a bad way. Hope you didn't recently sign a new contract.

Other than nice specs, I just don't understand the appeal of the i7500. To me, it's got a kinda 90's thing goin' on in the button area. The Magic looks cleaner and more modern to my eyes. And - it's got no trackball a-la the G1 and Magic. I need/want that trackball.

But that's just me I guess...

[Shel]

Other than nice specs, I just don't understand the appeal of the i7500. To me, it's got a kinda 90's thing goin' on in the button area.

I'm with you.

I can't pronounce it, but what I'm waiting for is the Huawei U8230...

Now THAT is a sleek looking phone!

http://i.afterdawn.com/storage/pictures/g1touchTMO.jpg

Full 3.5 in screen, 5 MP camera, 3.5mm Headphone jack... sounds great, from what I've read about it!

[eRoc]

I think the 8gb internal storage and 5mp cam with flash is what does it for most of us. Not to mention an actual 3.5mm jack for headphones.

Almost forgot the OLED (or was it AMOLED?) screen.. Can't remember, just remember the screen uses less juice. Whatever the new thing is these days.

[Crashdamage]

Shel said:

...what I'm waiting for is the Huawei U8230Hmmm...check this out: http://phandroid.com/2009/06/17/huawei-u8230-video-from-cnet/
In that video, they're showing one in all-black ( or dark gray), no iPhoney chrome wrap-around. Looks much better without it. Android is not loaded on it in the video. If the specs are good could could be OK, but I'd have a problem with giving up hard keys. Not sure Huawei is the kinda quality that HTC is either. I'm more interested in function than form usually, but...a nice-looking phone less the chrome.

[kitsunisan]

I'm with you.

I can't pronounce it, but what I'm waiting for is the Huawei U8230...

Now THAT is a sleek looking phone!

http://i.afterdawn.com/storage/pictures/g1touchTMO.jpg

Full 3.5 in screen, 5 MP camera, 3.5mm Headphone jack... sounds great, from what I've read about it!

Nope, 2.5mm jack, still need an adapter for that.

[Shel]

Yeah... seems the wowi, er, hawaii, er.....um... huey...whatever, comes with a 2.5mm jack and only 3.2MP camera.

Still, even in black, it looks nice, but what a fingerprint magnet!

[uansari1]

I think the 8gb internal storage and 5mp cam with flash is what does it for most of us. Not to mention an actual 3.5mm jack for headphones.

Almost forgot the OLED (or was it AMOLED?) screen.. Can't remember, just remember the screen uses less juice. Whatever the new thing is these days.

GSMArena is saying the phone has 8gb of internal storage and 128mb of RAM, plus a microSD slot of course. Given that... wouldn't that mean it will have less system RAM than the MyTouch at 192mb? I'm guessing they mean 8gb for int. storage means ROM plus other data you want to store like music, etc.

If that's how this phone is set up, I'd rather go with the MyTouch and slap a 16gb class 6 microSD and have more RAM and a trackball. Am I wrong on these assumptions?

Oh, and the I7500 is sporting the AMOLED screen, which indeed uses less power plus displays way more colors than the 65k that the G1 and MyTouch provide.

[dandv]

but, is there any hope whatsoever this phone will come out on ANY other network than t-mobile??

Even though the Samsung announcement press release (http://innovator.samsungmobile.com/bbs/tech/view.do?boardId=4&messageId=17461) specs mention T-Mobile's UMTS (3G) frequency for data access (1700MHz), none of Samsung's product pages for Denmark (http://www.samsung.com/dk/consumer/detail/productPreviewRead.do?model_cd=GT-I7500OKAXEE), Finland (http://www.samsung.com/fi/consumer/detail/productPreviewRead.do?model_cd=GT-I7500OKAXEE), Norway (http://www.samsung.com/no/consumer/detail/productPreviewRead.do?model_cd=GT-I7500OKAXEE) and Sweden (http://www.samsung.com/se/consumer/detail/productPreviewRead.do?model_cd=GT-I7500OKAXEE) mention 1700MHz.

So even if it gets released to T-Mobile, I'd double check that it can do 3G Internet access.

[SDscorch]

wow

okay - thx for that





hey.. heads-up (http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f55/samsung-i7500-passes-fcc-17729/)!