Samsung Galaxy Portal i5700
Posted March 1st, 2010 by admin No Comments »
By Dave Oliver (via reghardware.co.uk)
Samsung’s Galaxy Portal is the Korean firm’s latest dip into Android waters and for now it’s exclusive to T-Mobile. It’s been available in Europe since last year as the Galaxy Spica but, unlike most Samsung smartphones, this is pure Android. There isn’t the slightest hint of Samsung’s TouchWiz interface, so it’s effectively a clean slate, to do with as you will. In terms of features, it’s an avowedly midrange quad band handset, with a LCD touch screen, 3.2Mp Camera, Wi-Fi and AGPS.
T-Mobile UK exclusive: Samsung’s Galaxy Portal i5700
Glossy black and slim at 115 x 57 x 13mm and 124g, the Galaxy Portal is standard Samsung touchscreen fare. Beneath the screen Samsung has crammed in no less than seven buttons in a not terribly tidy configuration: menu and back, plus call start and stop surrounding a diamond-shaped navpad, with additional buttons for home and the web nudging in at the sides.
The web button seems a bit superfluous, since you can easily access the same function from the screen, but the home button proved invaluable, since the call stop key doesn’t double up as a home key, as you might expect. Around the sides are a volume rocker and Camera shutter button. Read the rest of this entry »
