Samsung SGH-i780 flagship business phone

[Nikita.P]

SAMSUNG Telecommunications India (STI), design and technology leader in the Indian mobile market, premiered its flagship business phone, the i780 at The MobileStore, India's largest national chain of multi-brand and multi-service telecom retail outlets. Packed with a gamut of features, SGH-i780 exemplifies cutting edge technology and design innovation. Samsung i780 is a sleek smart Windows Mobile 6.0 device. The handset features the innovative optical mouse along with a full QWERTY keyboard and a full touch screen that keeps the users connected.

Samsung SGH-i780



Samsung SGH-i780 with Camera

Samsung SGH-i780 with stylus

There's a telescopic stylus for Windows Mobile's more fiddly bits in the top left corner, and you even get an enhanced on-screen keyboard, which is much easier to use than the tiny, fiddly Windows Mobile one. Another benefit to having the touchscreen, though, is that the i780 can make use of Windows Mobile 6 Professional, which looks nicer than the non-touchscreen variant, and includes the version of the Office Mobile suite that allows you to create documents as well as simply editing them.

Samsung SGH-i780 supports Windows

The Samsung i780 is a bit of a mish mash. It certainly has potential: I liked the track button control, and the keyboard is pretty responsive too. The touchscreen and high speed data adds an extra dimension over the BlackBerry 8800 series, and coupled with Microsoft's Direct Push email and Office documents compatibility, it also makes for a more flexible work tool in many respects.


Specifications:

Dimension

• 115.9 x 61.3 x 12.9 mm

Weight

• 120 g

Network

• 2G Network GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
• 3G Network HSDPA 2100

Display

• Type - TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
• Size - 320 x 320 pixels, 2.55 inches
• QWERTY keyboard

Ringtones

• Type - Polyphonic (64 chords), MP3
• Customization - Download
• Vibration - Yes

Memory

• Phonebook - Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
• Call records - Practically unlimited
• Card slot - microSD (TransFlash), 256MB ROM and 128MB RAM

Data

• GPRS - Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
• HSCSD - No
• EDGE - Class 10, 236.8 kbps
• 3G - HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
• WLAN - Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
• Bluetooth - Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
• Infrared port - No
• USB - Yes

Features

• OS - Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional
• Messaging - SMS, MMS, EMail, Instant Messaging
• Browser - WAP 2.0 / HTML, Opera Mobile 8.65
• Games - Yes
• Camera - 2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels, video, secondary VGA videocall camera

Other Features

• Java MIDP 2.0
• Built-in GPS navigation
• A-GPS support
• Finger Mouse
• Side bar
• MS Office Mobile
• Voice memo
• Callia Player, Callia Reader
• Photo Slides
• Search
• SmartConverter
• Mini Player
• Windows Media Player

Battery

• Standard battery, Li-Ion 1480 mAh
• Stand-by upto 400 h
• Talk time upto 7 h

Organiser Functions

• Internet Browser - Yes (HTML)
• Document Viewer - Yes (MS Office, PDF, HTML)
• Picture ID - Yes
• Voice Memo - Yes

Special Functions

• Flashlight - No
• FM Radio - No
• GPS - Yes
• Mp3 Player - Yes
• Streaming Multimedia - Yes
• Video Recording - Yes
• VGA Output - Yes

Conclusion

[phones]

It looks like Blackberry phone only. Seems like Samsung is going to compete Blackberry with new releases now. What is its price?

[spookshow]

The features looks good as compared to blackberry. Also it seems to be slightly thinner than its counterpart.

[Amol21]

It looks like Blackberry phone only. Seems like Samsung is going to compete Blackberry with new releases now. What is its price?

Its price is given here.

[bosedk]

I have got myself this same Samsung SGH-i780 phone and its white color and branded one. Now the issue that I am facing is that I need a voip for calling which requires 3G but if i am trying to connect internet from this same phone then it connects as Edge and not 3g, and 3g is available in my area and many of my friends use it on their different mobile phone, so why am I facing this problem, can anyone help me out please. Thank you.

[Spyrus]

With the Samsung i780, the Korean brand has finally installed its first Bluetooth into the mobile phone and it's a PDA phone running Windows Mobile. It takes the form of i600, which has been very successful all over the world, so with the full QWERTY keyboard in front like a Blackberry (although it is touchscreen as well), it comes with GPS and more particularly an unprecedented display of 320 x 320 pixels resolution. The i780 also has 3G and Wi-Fi features to surf the net. Equipped with a GPS chip of Qualcomm, GPS sensitivity should be at the appointment and the speed with its Xscale processor running at 624 Mhz.