The Samsung i7500, known as Samsung Galaxy in some countries, is the first mobile phone manufactured by Samsung that uses the open source Android operating system. It was announced on 27 April 2009. The I7500 Galaxy is a “Google experience” phone, and has the intrinsic advantage of having the search giant’s infrastructure behind its back. For one, YouTube and Picasa integration sure add value to the 5-megapixel camera.

Samsung i7500 is 3.5G smartphone. It is offering quad-band GSM and announced with tri-band HSDPA (900/1700/2100) at 7.2Mbps (however, Samsung’s official pages for the Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish versions only mention dual-band UMTS 900/2100).

The I7500 Galaxy is the company’s first take on Android but if we put the OS aside, it should be a solid Samsung touchscreen with all the gadgetry we’ve got used to in smartphones. The phone features a 3.2-inch AMOLED touch screen, a 5 Megapixel autofocus camera with power LED flash, and a digital compass. The i7500 has a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, and a Directional Pad in place of a trackball.

Key features

• 3G with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA 5.76Mbps
• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
• Android OS v1.5 (codenamed Cupcake) without customizations
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and GPS receiver
• Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and turn-to-mute
• 3.2″ capacitive AMOLED touchscreen of HVGA resolution
• Qualcomm MSM72000A 528MHz CPU, 128MB RAM
• 5 MP autofocus camera with LED flash, geo-tagging, YouTube and Picasa integration
• Digital compass for automatic navigation of maps
• Standard microUSB port for charging and data
• microSD card slot with microSDHC support
• 8GB internal storage
• Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP)
• 3.5 mm audio jack

Main disadvantages

No Flash support in the web browser (coming soon via the Open Screen Project)
No DivX/XviD video support or a third-party application to play that
No FM radio
No smart dialing
Camera features are a bit outdated
No videocalling
No multi-touch gestures
No TV-out port
No voice dialing
No tethering (not without a custom ROM)
Somewhat limited 3rd party software availability
No Bluetooth file transfers (not without rooting)

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