Samsung Announces i310 Music Phone with 8GB Hard Disk

Mike Temporale

http://www.samsunghq.com/content/view/225/5/

"Samsung has announced that it will be introducing their new 8GB SGH-i310 smartphone at the 2006 CeBIT convention in Hannover this week - an update to their 4GB SGH-i300x "Super Musicphone". The SGH-i310 runs on Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphones and features an 8GB HDD, 2MP camera with flash, video recording and playback, TV-output, audio playback, dual speakers w/digital amplification, A2DP stereo Bluetooth, Picsel document viewer, USB 2.0, and microSD memory card storage. The SGH-i310 is expected to be available in Europe during the second half of 2006."

Another hot new phone from Samsung! These guys are on a roll as of late. We've got the original music device i300, then came the new Q-like Smartphone - i320, and now the i310 which comes with a larger hard disk and Windows Mobile 5. The only thing I don't understand, is why Samsung is ignoring the North American market? We haven't seen a Smartphone from them since the i600 was released years ago. What's the deal Samsung? Let's get some of these devices released over here!

Source: Engadget Mobile
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Darius Wey · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:03 am Post subject:

This thing has better specs than most of the Pocket PC Phone Edition devices currently available in the market. The mind boggles.
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Mike Temporale · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:37 am Post subject:

Well, there's no question that the phone is the future. Wink

Samsung is doing a great job loading their devices with great specs. They just seem to be limiting the distribution channel more than I would have expected. Sad

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Jerry Raia · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:39 am Post subject:

Maybe their experience with North American carriers, like Verizon, scared the heck out of them. Laughing

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optikalsaint · Smartphone Thinker Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 420

my question is why are they releasing a phone with a HDD and not that magical NAND flash that they sell to everyone else? im sure having a large HDD would kill your battery... but i love this phone Smile

me · Smartphone Intellectual Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 163

Sure sounds like an interesting phone, as does their "Q Killer". I sure hope they become available in the US, and not so late that they are outmoded by the time they get here.

I guess it wouldn't make sense to wait for one though. I'll probably go ahead and get the T-Mobile (my carrier) MDA, when they get them back in stock. I hope these Samsungs are available next year.

shindullin · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:50 pm Post subject:

They're not coming out in N America because it's too much work for not enough money. They have to tweak their phones over multiple non-standardized systems and the market for the really high end phones are small relative to the rest of the standardized world.
Also it's HDD instead of the NAND because NAND still costs more than the HD does. Besides, no-one keeps these phones for more than a year, two years max (except people in the US it seems). Reliability is not as much of an issue when you build it to last three years and people only keep it for one and a half.