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Samsung SGH-i450, with music focus, officially announced

Published by Rafe Blandford at 12:26 BST, October 10th 2007

The Samsung SGH-i450, a music focused S60 3rd Edition smartphone, has been officially announced by Samsung as part of its new line up of music phones. The SGH-i450 is billed as a dual slide with touch wheel music navigation. Features include support for HSDPA connectivity, metallic speaker supporting ICEpower (developed by Bang & Olufsen), and a microSD card slot support for SDHC cards. Read on for more.

 

 

The up slide of the i450 reveals a numeric keypad for use with the phones smartphone features. Running on S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 the phone has a range of powerful PIM,  multimedia and Internet related applications.

The down slide of the i450 activates the music player with its touch wheel navigation (the black area we assume). The i450 has its own music UI and support for multiple codecs including MP3, AAC, AAC+ , WMA and WMA with DRM. Samsung are also touting the ICEpower speaker which includes technology developed by Bang & Olufsen and it said to give better fidelity and battery life. 

On board memory is fairly scarce at 35MB, but there is microSD card slot with support for SDHC cards (4GB and up). 

The phone will be available in Italy from the end of October and the rest of Europe shortly afterwards with an unsubsidised price of 360 Euro.

Here a YouTuve video that shows the i540 in action:

Categories: Hardware
Platforms: S60 3rd Edition

News Discussion

viipottaja
Looks nice! Low ram though and camera is not that great. So not sure if it has an upper hand on N81 8GB for example, other than maybe price.
Unregistered
viipottaja,who told you how much RAM the phone has?About the camera-it is the same as in N81,isn't it?
viipottaja
Ups, my bad. I read the internal memory (35mb) to mean RAM.. so, no, I don't know how much free ram there will be.
Rafe
I understand the RAM is 128 MB, but haven't been able to confirm this yet.
Unregistered
Rafe,probably the phone will be showed next week at the Symbian Smartphone Show.Then you could check this up.
Hardeep1singh
128mb??

@rafe, do try to check if its Total RAM or Free RAM.

don't forget to keep a sis installer of taskman handy ;)
Unregistered
Hardeep1singh,probably this is the total RAM but it is more than enough.Free RAM wil most likely be around 80-90MB-just as in Nokia phones.
Rafe
Yes I'll checking up on this. Trying to find someone to talk to at Samsung without much luck.

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