Samsung SGH-i600 Windows Mobile UMTS and HSDPA Smartphone

[Jerry Raia]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=3437' target='_blank'>http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=3437</a><br /><br /></div><i>"As I've previously posted, two weeks ago I had my first 5 minutes with a Samsung SGH-i600 UMTS and HSDPA Windows Mobile Smartphone which is expected to be released end of this year. This week I had my second 10 minutes with the same device, Samsung's UMTS/HSDPA follower of the SGH-i320. Beside being Samsung's first UMTS and HSDPA enabled Windows Mobile Smartphone, the highlight of the SGH-i600 is its BlackBerry-styled thumb-keyboard which mostly addresses business customers."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Jerry-teaser_samsung_sgh-i600.gif" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />Great but why are they using "i600" in the name? Didn't they already make an i600? Somethings I will never understand. It is nice to see more HSDPA devices surfacing. The question is when will I have one in my hands?

[encece]

This is the one I'm waiting for. Unless they come out with a Cingular compatible UMTS/HSDPA candybar phone before that.

[Mark Larson]

They name their CDMA phones SCH, and their GSM phones SGH.

So SCH-i600 is different from SGH-i600. :)

[Jerry Raia]

Yeah but they should change the dang number!

[Kris Kumar]

They name their CDMA phones SCH, and their GSM phones SGH.

So SCH-i600 is different from SGH-i600. :)

I would have been okay with that explanation if the SGH-i600 was the GSM version of the SCH-i600, which it is not, so why confuse the customers. :? Oh well!

[Kris Kumar]

This is the one I'm waiting for.

You mean you want the i607? Samsung is making things confusing, the i320 and i600 are European tri-band models. The i607 which Cingular is supposed to get I believe is a Quad-band, US 3G compatible device. ;-)

[Jerry Raia]

At least change the "i" :roll: