Samsung has just released its first Series 60 phone, the SGH-D700. It will be available in the second half of 2003.

Specifications:

Based on the Symbian OS and Series 60 UI platform, SGH-D700 includes wireless Internet access in a compact folder design. The SGH-D700 has a twisting screen and a camcorder feature with a built-in high resolution digital camera. The video messaging feature enables users to exchange clips of film through MMS and e-mail. It also is fully portable and can access existing wireless data services and voice call systems. SGH-D700 has a MP3 playback feature and includes full MMS, which allows users to create and send their own multimedia content. The interface for PC Sync is operated through USB and it gives higher speed data rates.

Key Features
• Folder design
• UI : Series 60
• Built-in digital camera
• 65000 color
• Video Messaging through MMS and e-mail
• E-Mail Clients
• World Wide Triband (Europe/North & South America/Middle East/Africa)
• MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service)
• GPRS (General Packet Radio Service)
• WAP Browser
• Handsfree ear-microphone
• Turbo dialing
• Vibration alert
• Wallpaper
• Service lamp
• SyncML : vCard, vCalendar
• USB / IrDA Interface
• Voice Memo and Voice Recognition (Name dialing/Voice command)
• Video clip playback using Real One player
• MIDI and WAV for Ringtone and MP3 music player
• MS Mobile Outlook compatible


Specifications
• Size : Dimension : 89 x 49 x 23 mm
• Weight : 110g
• Screen Internal : 176 x 208 pixels; TFT 65000 Color
• Platform: RF Band : 900/1800/1900 MHz
• Symbian OS & Series 60 UI

Memory
• Embedded User Memory : min 4MB
• Application Install : Java, Symbian
• Picture and Video Clip Storage
• Extended Memory Card Slot Support

Messaging
• Camcorder Function
• MMS : MPEG4, H.263(Video) / AMR (Audio)
• E-mail : SMTP, POP3, IMAP4

Camera
• Built-in type
• 640 x 480, 300K(VGA) pixels

Polyphonic ringtone
• 40 Polyphonic ringtone
• MIDI, WAV support

PIM
• Calendar
• To do list
• Contact(Phonebook)
• Notes
• World time

Syncronization
• SynML : vCard, vCalender

Voice Recording
• Name Dialing / Voice Command
• Voice Memo

Battery
• Standard (800mAh) / Extended (1150mAh) SGH-D700

And ugly as hell. even the 3650 looks way better.

That rotating camera is nice...

• Service lamp


What is Service lamp?

I guess it's like the flashing LED on Ericsson phones that shows it has a signal. Some people like it, other loathe it.

I don't think this one looks half bad. It's a similar form factor to its future Palm and Microshcmuk devices.

Maybe it's putting them all head-to-head to see which horse to ride in the future.


I had to laugh at Pocket PC Thoughts when one of its editors, Ed Hansberry, reported a 'News Item' which stated that Samsung was abandoning Palm. The story was based on someone called 'Brian' who had been e-mailing someone called 'Mac' who had a 'friend' who worked for Samsung and so it must be true (at least we look for a little more authentication on AAS than a few e-mails from people who's surnames we don't even know).


Anyway, back to the plot - I hope this Symbian smartphone does well since it is Symbian's first Clamshell smartphone and it does have a few nice little touches.

I like it! A little flip phone with the OS we all love :D

Can't go wrong!

Bluetooth?

But the Fujitsu FOMA 3G phone is clamshell so its techincally not the first symbian clamshell.
Its the first Series 60 clamshell tho!

Samsung has just released its first Series 60 phone, the SGH-D700. It will be available in the second half of 2003.


I was today playing with this phone, and I was really impressed that:

- this phone is sooo cool
- that Symbian dumped MS Smarpthone

here are some MY photos of this phone:

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/albums/album03/4all1.jpg

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/albums/album03/4all2.jpg

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/albums/album03/4all3.jpg

and here is one more photo of this phone:

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/albums/album03/samsung.jpg

I am in love :D

Thanks for the photos jpzr - looks like a really nice phone.

Ok, its not going to be to everyone's tatse, but as someone said its the first clam shell series 60, and well it s a different style. I'm sure it will do well.

Rafe

I have to say that I am very impressed by this handset. It features a CCD lens chip, not the cheap CMOS that is used in camera phones nowadays. I think this is a winner.

Thanks for the photos jpzr - looks like a really nice phone.

Ok, its not going to be to everyone's tatse, but as someone said its the first clam shell series 60, and well it s a different style. I'm sure it will do well.


By the way please note that this phone from Samsung is better than 3650 and than N-Gage because:

- it is smaller!
- it has totally rotable camera and display - you can make photos of yourself (of ANY BODY PART OF YOURSELF) and also of landscapes if you wish
- it weighs less

well, yes, Samsung has a little bit "quadratish style" but well, if you keep this phone in your hands then it doesn't matter! this phone = cool and solid. Nokia 3650 and n-gage = cheap, plastic holder of soap.

Well, you are right, but without NOKIAS Series 60 I wouldn't look twice at this device and continue with my supper :D Cool it Jpzr we all know your feelings about NOkia, and quite truly are tired of hearing it. Thanx for the pictures though! :D

Well, you are right, but without NOKIAS Series 60 I wouldn't look twice at this device and continue with my supper :D Cool it Jpzr we all know your feelings about NOkia, and quite truly are tired of hearing it. Thanx for the pictures though! :D

wrong ! it was not my feelings about the company!!

today I was at CeBIT 2003 and I was touching, TOUCHING, all these phones - these were my impressions and sincerely hardware-wise this phone from samsung is very close to my ideal cell phone of all times...

by the way: speaking of symbian phones - I wanted to see also the symbian phone from Benq - so I went to Benq's stand at CeBIT and you know what? instead of the phone there was, behind a glass, a photo of the phone that somebody cutted out with scissors!!! but samsung on the hand was showing SEVERAL real, operation phones with symbian, phones that have solid impreession ... of course don't get excited too much about this phone from samsung with symbian - I have heard that it comes in the 2nd half of this year...

so, malebuffy, it was TOUCHING GADGETS and feelings about gadgets. not related to companies associated...

I will give you my impressions of Cebit the day after tomorrow. :D. As I said this is an ideal phome for me too, but I wont flame Nokia just becasue after some months later another company has made a better phone. I am happy for Samsung and Symbian. But dont forget, the only reason I consider this phone, IS Symbian AND Series 60.

When I was looking for information on the new samsung I noticed this about a new moto phone, the A920. It say's that it runs Symbian OS ver 7 and has a 208*320 display, does that mean it's UIQ based.

http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?id=288

Looks a little large but it is (supposedly) designed for 3g networks, it has a direction pad and more importantly does video calling.

Kieron

It very much looks like it.

Thanks for the photos jpzr - looks like a really nice phone.

Ok, its not going to be to everyone's tatse, but as someone said its the first clam shell series 60, and well it s a different style. I'm sure it will do well.

Rafe

hi Rafe, pal, look here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/29751.html

now you're famous!

Rafe's been famnous for a while ...

But seriously, I thought the press had missed the Samsung announcement with all the hullabalou they made about the new Samsung Palm OS 5 device. Only references to the Samsung Series 60 deives I found where on El Reg and also PMN communications (http://www.pmn.co.uk/20030312samsung.shtml)

http://www.pdafrance.com/img/pdanews2003/DSCN2306_s.jpghttp://www.pdafrance.com/img/pdanews2003/DSCN2308_s.jpg
http://www.pdafrance.com/img/pdanews2003/DSCN2311_s.jpghttp://www.pdafrance.com/img/pdanews2003/DSCN2324_s.jpg
http://www.pdafrance.com/img/pdanews2003/DSCN2325_s.jpghttp://www.pdafrance.com/img/pdanews2003/DSCN2328_s.jpg

Source: www.pdafrance.com


One more picture..
http://mobile.burn.com/media/samsung/cebit/samsung_series_60.jpg

Notice the SD slot in the right side of the phone. It's quite amazing how small it is.

Notice the SD slot in the right side of the phone. It's quite amazing how small it is.

no, it is MMC slot, not SD slot - I checked it.

besides this: you are linking here STOLEN PICTURES from pda france - not your own!!! that's not nice...

Notice the SD slot in the right side of the phone. It's quite amazing how small it is.
besides this: you are linking here STOLEN PICTURES from pda france - not your own!!! that's not nice...

Did I ever say these were mine? No.

Did I ever say these were mine? No.

it's not about saying or not,
it is about stealing pictures and
stealing bandwidth from guys from pda france.

That bloody phone rocks, the more I see the more I want.

I hope it isn't another one of those, well it's going to be released Q3-Q4 2003, but that actually means Q2 2004....I love the looks and the screen setup even though i've never been a huge fan of flip phones.

It runs S60 too which is another added bonus, lots of software available right now. Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie :D

Samsung has always had bad design and aesthetics. They are strong on the technology front though.

Notice how with screen rotated Samsung reads upside down?

Joke.

Samsung has always had bad design and aesthetics. They are strong on the technology front though.
.

stron on technology? this Symbian/Series60 phone from Samsung doesn't have Bluetooth! is it "strong on technology"?

When will they ever bring us a GUI that looks good? :s
Look at the ugly graphics :s
Same as p800/7650/9210.
Innovate people! :D

Aaaargh :o

Thats it!!!

i´am in love 2 :roll:

This phone is,what i´m waiting 4....

small,smart and serie 60....

this makes me very happy...and my :robot: 2.....

i only hope,that the disply is a small bit better,then this ones on T100/S100-Devices.
If the sun was shine on it,ucould see nothing anymore...
(hope,the disply will be reflective)

somebody knows something about it?

THX Sämi

being a series 60 phone does that means all the applications i have on my 7650 can be installed on this phone??

Yup should do :)

aahhhh
I think im in love,This phone seems to be great..excellent shape love the screen.....and best off all its a series 60 phone..
now I know what to get next 8) but the only thing bad about it seems to be no bluetooth :(

does this phone have a loud speaker?

so there is no Bluetooth tech on this phone?

too bad since it's a really damn good phone


I think I might try it when it comes out but no BT really no good.

SD Slot
http://www.mobil.cz/obrazek/samsung_cebit03_020

Back
http://www.mobil.cz/obrazek/samsung_cebit03_021

Maaan that phone looks sweet. might put off a 3650 for one of those if i can find roughly when it will be out! (read somewhere Q3 this year?)
Not too fussed about the bluetooth, it supports USB apparantly. and it has a "normal" keypad which would probably stop me from throwing the phone at the wall or on the floor.
oh and did i mention it's an amazing looking phone?! ;)

Also, in theory judging by what i have seen from other samsung phones the screen should be of higher quality? i havn't seen a 3650 in action for a while i must admit, can anyone confirm whether the samsung screens are of better quality than the nokia ones?

Yes. The 3650 has a 4096 color LCD (older samsung lcd screen), while the D700 has the 65k+ color LCD (newer samsung lcd screen).

Anyone have any information on when this awesome phone will be available in the US?

It didn't had games, video, camera or anything else to test it. So all I can say is that it is just another series 60

Anyone have any information on when this awesome phone will be available in the US?

It's already approved by FCC. Check http://www.phonescoop.com for more details.

Just wondering. If it supports GSM, does it mean i can use a SIM card with it?

yes

Just wondering anyone knows how strong the thing that holds the lcd to the phn? Will constant twisting just weaken it? Those who actually had hands on, how does it feel?

Does it feel loose of something?

Also seen some sites that says the D700 has bluetooth and some says it doesn't. Anyone can confirm this?

Cheers

The D700 should have bloototh because of two reasons.
1. @ Cebit they told that bluetooth is not released in the Cebit-Phone but it will be in the Final-Phone. They also told that the antenna will be inside the phone.
2. The Series60-Specification sais that a phone with this OS must have Bluetooth.

Greetz Birba

That's great.

Can't wait for the phone to be launched. Heard its going to be released in Europe first. Might get a friend to get it for me first ....(am from asia).

Dunno if it will work. Uses a SIM card on GSM networks right?

Just wondering. If it supports GSM, does it mean i can use a SIM card with it?

As opposed to what? :-? I dont think you'd have much choice but to put a SIM card in it

great looking phone

All the cool phones going to Europe and Asia! The US is the big, rich market! Why do we get the crap that falls off the boat? Big corporations are taking advantage of us!

All the cool phones going to Europe and Asia! The US is the big, rich market! Why do we get the crap that falls off the boat? Big corporations are taking advantage of us!Big corporations are not taking advantage of Americans (no more than any other individual with purchasing power), but big protectionist American carriers/operators, American corporations (like Qualcomm & Motorola) and the American government have fragemented the American market and put American people at a disadvantage. ;)

For anyone following the market of world of mobile/cellular communications, it is no surprise that major global manufacturers sees the US as an important, but nevertheless as a secondary market.

It is the GSM/EGSM 900/1800 MHz network market that's the biggest and primary cellular phone market in the world (far larger than any other).

Most manufacturers target that market first as they can use the same hardware base in almost any country in the world.

Even as there are large GSM carriers/operators in the US, they have to use a different frequency, 1900MHz, so manufacturers have to use a different radio module, or a so called tri-band radio that can handle all three frequences (900/1800/1900) for the US market GSM phones.

i wonder how tough the screen is...i mean theres no "front" screen, so you could rotate it around before you put it where ever you keep it i guess...but anyways looks pretty cool. any estimates on the price?

:angel:
hi guys.. do you know how much this fone actually/approximately costs???

is it really better than samsungs v200c version?
coz some say that v200c could be upgraded... im not sure if it would match d700's features though..?

How to compare? the d700 is a symbian phone...... the v200 is not..

Any news on when the phone is going to be released?

Any news on when the phone is going to be released?

Not in singapore... just contacted Samsung, and they said no news yet.

Any news on when the phone is going to be released?

Not in singapore... just contacted Samsung, and they said no news yet.
and i e-mailed Samsung UK via their site, but no reply at all >.<

Thank you for your email dated 2.7.03 regarding the SGH-D700.

There are currently no release date for that model in the UK. If Samsung decide to release it in the future then details will be posted on www.samsungmobile.com and www.samsungelectonics.co.uk

i hope that means "no release date YET" and not "no release date, ever"
:-/

Does this Samsung Series 60 phone support Multi Media Card?? Otherwise, 4 MB is far too little.

yeah it has a MMC slot on it, i think if you check on page 3 of the thread there is an image of the slot..

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Still waiting <taps foot impatiently>

as am i. i might e-mail samsung again, stalking is fun ^_^
but i am now torn, the D700 or the 6600. decisions decisions. which will come first will probably decide though, cos i have no patience at all.

6600 *will* be released before the D700, that's almost a certainty!

I to am not at all patient but I'm not a big fan of the 6600 or any other S60 devices at the moment, I like the design of the D700 better than just about any other phone I can think of...I'm hooked

E-Mails to Samsung aren't getting me anywhere either....Malebuffy was told by Samsung that it won't be released in the UK at all!, but they could have been talking about the MS powered version me thinks :roll:

The D700 may be nearer than we think. This article (http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2003/09/20/200309200009.asp) posted today has this quote.

"Samsung plans to sell smart phones that feature an on-phone operating system to run software in North America from the third-quarter. The company is also preparing to export new cell phones powered by the Symbian operating system to Europe beginning in the fourth-quarter. "

Thanks for that...fingers crossed it'll be here in time for my birthday :)

Yes but you wont be here, you lucky %$%*^%$*$! :D

:D

anyone fancy a trip to samsung HQ Korea? ;) i bet we could perform an adequate raid and come out with a couple of handsets....
Thinking about my current money situaion (i.e. none) i probably can't afford the 6600 yet, so roll on D700!

I know a few people in Inchon, Korea i'll have a word for you :D

oh my god... soon to be released!!! :angel: i can't wait now!!!!

anyone fancy a trip to samsung HQ Korea? ;) i bet we could perform an adequate raid and come out with a couple of handsets....
Thinking about my current money situaion (i.e. none) i probably can't afford the 6600 yet, so roll on D700!But you would have enouh money to travel to Korea & back? ;)

But you would have enouh money to travel to Korea & back? ;)

...blast! foiled already! but if i could build a plane to fly me to Korea, then have the plane turn into a robot and take the phones, and then fly back, i would name it plane-bot.
...

but anyway yeah that was today's randomness completed.

anyone fancy a trip to samsung HQ Korea? ;) i bet we could perform an adequate raid and come out with a couple of handsets....
Thinking about my current money situaion (i.e. none) i probably can't afford the 6600 yet, so roll on D700!

Great idea. I think there will be more than a "couple". :D Make sure to take some of the phones being developed in their secret R&D center while at it. 8) There must be a reason why they banned camera phones in their research centers...

It doesn't have bluetooth, does it ?

It doesn't have bluetooth, does it ?Correct. It doesn't (will not).

Thanks for the info, some people are arguing that it has BT..
They are stupid indeed...

is it now confirmed that it does not have BT?
there have been conflicting opinions, ranging from the weird "it's in the series 60 spec" to the "it wasn't in the cebit handset but will be in the release" (both i think were in the same post in this thread ^_^ incedently how long would it take to swim to Korea? just a thought...

For all you crazy Samsung fans i've created a forum in the S60 section :D