Samsung Electronics Bullish on Q3 Handset Sales

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/corporatenews/view/44984/1/.html' target='_blank'>http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stor...w/44984/1/.html</a><br /><br /></div>"Samsung has launched its latest wireless smartphone, dubbed MIT (mobile intelligent terminal) M400, which runs on Microsoft's Pocket PC software. The company said the device works as a mobile phone, television, personal computer, digital camera, camcorder, road navigator, and as an MP3 Player. It features a 3.5-inch screen with 128 megabit standard memory."<br /><br />This is the first I've heard of the M400 - I think they mean 128 megaBYTES, which would be cool. Looking at the other features, it makes it sound like it has a built-in TV tuner and GPS, which I highly doubt. I'm going to do a little digging to see what this M400 is. It sounds a lot like the i700, perhaps a newer version.

[Jason Dunn]

Ah, it looks like it's Korea-only. That explains a little more about the crazy features. :lol:

[Ed@Brighthand]

Right, this was first demoed in December of last year. Here's what I wrote about it at the time, if anyone is curious:
http://www.brighthand.com/article/SPH-M400_Demoed

Sadly, according to InfoWorld this will only be available in Korea:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/21/HNsamsungphone_1.html

Still, there is hope that similar devices might be seen in our part of the world. InfoWorld says
Samsung said Monday that it plans to unveil six or seven new multifaceted products, which it calls mobile terminals, in the U.S. and Europe later this year. They will support operating systems from Microsoft, PalmSource, and Symbian, as well as Linux, the company said.

[Charles Pickrell]

Here is the product page in Korea:

Samsung Korea (http://www.sec.co.kr/product/sitemap/CSfLastGoodsPage_001.jsp?GOODS_NO=135132&DISP_NO=001004&dispNo=001004&COMU=&curDepth=2)

[isilver]

It sounds neat. But with al those features it will probably cost $5000.00. But it's a step in the right direction.

[rbrome]

Here are specs from the Korean site, translated (poorly) by The Fish:

Details spec
&lt; Flag royal tomb >
- The world-wide initial Korean alphabet pe cyen Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition (PE)
- the CDMA2000 1x EV-DO method (MSM5500 loading)
- advanced CPU employment Intel PXA250 300 Mhz (turbo mode hour 300MHz, scull end mode hour 200MHz)
- aerial green onion T.V reception (no charge) back multimedia function
- the Pocket PC 2002 Applications which is various
- the internal organs elder brother 300000 pixel large digital camera (VGA)
- the application characteristic which is various with SD I/O employment (SD Card, W-LAN (radio LAN) the back)
- transmission function support of the program or memoing back which uses the IrDA (infrared ray communication)
- 65K Color anti- transmission elder brother TFT LCD employment
- anger sleeping independence speech recognition support
- USB function support
- Navigation function additional possibility
- 128MB Nand Flash Memory employment
- voice sound recording function
- PDA function. The Pocket the Office (pocket out lwuk, pocket word, pocket Eg it will count, su khey cyul le). Windows Pocket Media Player (su trimming A/V and MP3, WMA and WMV)
- MAP Display (3D, Event view)
- NAVIGATION function additional hour possibility
- SMS
- Image & Melody

&lt; PC connection function >
- The S/W establishment (Microsoft ActiveSync to lead, the PC and interchange) which leads a personal information manager data PC interchange function/the PC

&lt; khu Flag > (mm)
- 71 * 132 * 18.2

&lt; To nothing > (g)
- 207g (standard elder brother battery employment hour)

&lt; OS >
- Microsoft PocketPC 2002 Phone Edition

&lt; LCD >
- TFT Color LCD (240 * 320) anti- transmission elder brother 65K Color/Touch screen

&lt; MITs inside memory >
- 128MB Nand Flash Memory

&lt; Memory outside MITs >
- SD Card (the maximum 512MB use possibility)

&lt; Battery >
nine minute Pyo Joon Hyung (1220mA) Dae Yong Ryang (1800mA)
continuous currency about 100 minutes about 170 minute
continuous waiting about 60~140 hour about 100~220 hour
this hand phone the CDMA 1X with mode (CDMA2000) the CDMA 1X all supports a EV-DO mode the thread use hour in hand phone use environment to follow, there is a possibility which there will be a difference.

...anyway, the big feature is actually 1xEV-DO. That's REALLY fast wireless. Faster as in 50 times faster than GPRS! I believe this is the first 1xEV-DO Pocket PC, and that's the real news here. Verizon Wireless is on the brink of commercially launching their 1xEV-DO networks in the Washington, DC and San Diego. The M400 won't work on US frequencies, but the freqiencies aren't the hard part, so if Verizon asked, Samsung could have a version of the M400 ready for the US pretty quickly. THAT would be incredible!

[Charles Pickrell]

I think the greatest feature is the

anger sleeping independence speech recognition support

I think every Pocket PC should have anger sleeping speech recognition. :wink:

[Cortex]

more pics here...

http://www.brainthoughts.com/m400.bmp

[Cortex]

i might add, this is the coolest pocket pc made to date!

the built in TV tuner and GPS are long overdue...

[David C]

I won't be surprised if it is only A-GPS, like what we have on E-911 capable phones. It basically gets triangulaed from cell tower signal, not GPS saterlites.

[ConceptVBS]

I won't be surprised if it is only A-GPS, like what we have on E-911 capable phones. It basically gets triangulaed from cell tower signal, not GPS saterlites.

The phone shows you the actual map of where you are and follows you where ever you go. I think there is a REAL GPS module inside that thing.

[rbrome]

I won't be surprised if it is only A-GPS, like what we have on E-911 capable phones. It basically gets triangulaed from cell tower signal, not GPS saterlites.

Yes and no.

You're right that is "only" A-GPS, but A-GPS DOES in fact involve the phone reading signals directly from GPS satellites. But it gets a lot of help from the cellular network. The network tells it which satellites to look for, and does all of the calculations to figure out location. In other words, a location server on the network does all the heavy lifting, leaving the phone to only have to get raw timing readings from specific satellites.

Nearly all CDMA phones now sold in the US do this - yes, they really do get signals from satellites. But it needs the help of the location server to figure out where you actually are.

[rbrome]

The phone shows you the actual map of where you are and follows you where ever you go. I think there is a REAL GPS module inside that thing.

I doubt it. It's just not necessary on a CDMA network with A-GPS. A-GPS is much cheaper and easier to implement on a CDMA device, and it can provide the same functionality, as long as you have CDMA coverage, (which is quite likely in S. Korea).

[Pony99CA]

I read about this in a PC World article (http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,111664,00.asp). I wrote about the good news/bad news at pocketnow (http://www.pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=1767). To sum up, it supposedly has a two-way radio, camcorder and TV, but only a 300 MHz PXA250 processor and will cost $800.

Steve

[clinte]

Here are specs from the Korean site, translated (poorly) by The Fish:

[quote]Details spec
&lt; Flag royal tomb >
- The world-wide initial Korean alphabet pe cyen Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition (PE)
- the CDMA2000 1x EV-DO method (MSM5500 loading)
- advanced CPU employment Intel PXA250 300 Mhz (turbo mode hour 300MHz, scull end mode hour 200MHz)
- aerial green onion T.V reception (no charge) back multimedia function
- the Pocket PC 2002 Applications which is various
..........



Cool to see O2 with a new PPC Phone (Edition 2003) and the new Orange SmartPhone from HTC, codename 'Voyager'
http://www.mmo2.com/docs/media/pr_030701e.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/31610.html