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  • Samsung I8520: Everything We Ever Wanted and a Whole Lot More

    Posted on February 15th, 2010 anphase 15 comments
    Samsung I8520
    Sam­sung I8520 Halo: Wow, what more can I say?

    First reac­tion to this device is wow! Hot off Mobile World Con­gress 2010, this device has a  3.7″ Super AMOLED with Android 2.1  and an 8MP cam­era with 720p video record­ing. Did I men­tion it has a pro­jec­tor too? This phone has the specs to make it the fea­ture phone of 2010. You know, like the i8910 Omnia HD was for 2009 and the i8510 Innov8 was for 2008 etc. Really amaz­ing stuff they got here. The offi­cial specs after the break:

    Sam­sung I8520 / Prod­uct Specifications

    Net­work HSDPA 7.2Mbps/HSUPA 5.76Mbps UMTS (900/1900/2100),
    EDGE / GPRS (850/900/1800/1900)
    Dis­play 3.7” WVGA Super AMOLED
    Cam­era 8MP AF w/ Flash (Front : VGA)
    Video H.264, H.263, MPEG4, Divx/Xvid, VC-1, 720p@30fps(de/encoding)
    Audio MP3, OGG, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, WMA, WAV, MID, AC3
    FM Radio with RDS, 3.5mm Ear jack, 3D Sound Effect(Dual Speaker)
    Value-added Fea­tures A-GPS, Wi-Fi(b/g/n), Spe­cial­ized Pro­jec­tor UI, Hybrid Wid­gets, IM, Email,
    DLNA, Sam­sung Kies, Push Service(SNS, IM, Email)
    Con­nec­tiv­ity Blue­tooth v2.1 / USB 2.0 High Speed
    Mem­ory Inter­nal mem­ory: at least 2GB (4Gb ROM / 3Gb RAM + 16GB Mov­iNAND)
    Exter­nal mem­ory: MicroSD (up to 32GB)
    Size 123 x 59.8 x 14.9 mm / TBD g
    Bat­tery Life 1800 mAh
    (Talk time: up to 470 mins (On 3G mode)/ up to 850 mins (On 2G mode))
    (Stand-by time: up to 530 hrs (On 3G mode) / up to 630 hrs (On 2G mode))

    Wait, a pro­jec­tor? I couldn’t help but notice that it also has voice con­trol, an email app, 720p video @30fps, mul­ti­ple home screens etc.

    Ladies and gen­tle­men, this is Samsung’s response to  the report! They said it,implementing the fea­tures would be equiv­a­lent to devel­op­ing a whole new device. This is it…with a projector…and a Super AMOLED display…and more. I really don’t want to waste my money buy­ing in to all this glory, but wow. The pro­jec­tor will prob­a­bly be buggy/slow/useless or some­thing and it will never be updated to Android 3.0 when that comes out know­ing Sam­sung. But wow.

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    • alsvik

      Nice look­ing phone and specs seem good — but we all know what Sam­sung really mean when they write: 720p@30fps(de/encoding)
      And we also know that the final ver­sion of this phone will propably loose a cou­ple of fea­tures when it hit the market!

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    • touzeen

      no use cry­ing over spilt milk…
      enjoy what u have now…

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    • Yade

      Don’t be drawn in by this. Sam­sung always reveal mas­sive amaz­ing specs but dis­ap­point when the phone reaches the shops. Specs are only impres­sive if you have a com­pany will­ing to fol­low through after launch

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    • ssj3gogeta

      I’m really con­sid­er­ing this but i’m going to wait MONTHS to hear from peo­ple about the phone…i’m not mak­ing an sud­den deci­sion about a phone now

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    • Sparkly

      DAMN Sams00ng.
      Know­ing me, I’m mak­ing the same mis­take as I did with the I8910. I’ll hate them even more if they make me buy this…

      If only it had a Nokia logo.…..

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    • Yade

      I am con­fused, Some web­sites state 5MPX, some say 8. The device says 8MPX but the Sam­sung rep on one of the pre­view videos says 5MPX. Either way that lens looks tiny and unlikely to pro­duce pic­tures as good as the i8910 and nowhere near the best in the 5 or 8MPX class. The phone does look good all round but I hope that Sam­sungs fool­ish shock tac­tics wont work this time and that they have upset enough cus­tomers to get the drive for this device and the wave.

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    • http://anphase.com anphase

      @Yade it is con­fus­ing, I got the specs from the Sam­sung MWC press release. Maybe they made a mis­take. I hope Sam­sung doesn’t do the usual with this one but it’s not bada so they prob­a­bly will :-/

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    • http://anphase.com anphase

      @ssj3gogeta So true, I won’t leap to get this until the reviews start flow­ing. The i8910 got and still has good reviews float­ing around though, it’s hard to pre­dict the suc­cess or fail­ure of these devices.

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    • Yade

      @anphase Pre­dict­ing suc­cess or fail­ure is easy, it is Sam­sung!! :-)
      I wish that wasn’t the case but their track record isn’t good.

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    • darknight07

      U kid­ding me?
      before this post with the out­dated specs makes every­one go OMG OMG OMG, please read this:
      http://forums.samsungi8910omnia.com/general-discussion-talk-about-anything-non-i8910-hd-related/8950-samsung-i8520-halo-3.html
      (last post by me)
      nuff said

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    • http://anphase.com anphase

      Out­dated? The specs are all over the place. I got them from the Sam­sung web­site. They are also on GSM Arena, Phone Arena and of course Sam­sung. Notice the delib­er­ate use of Gb vs GB. The specs are correct.

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    • Has­san

      I’m so sick of the i8910. I wish we could have bada on it.

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    • darknight07

      will see.…
      Right now this phone feels like it’s gonna be rushed, it’s gonna get down­graded by the time of release with ppl won­der­ing what hap­pened again with that SO-CALLED VIDEO EDITOR, and it will be bypassed pos­si­bly by HTC Scor­pian within just few months!!
      but, it’s Android ^.^

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    • Twin­kle Arora

      Sam­sung is again try­ing to fool us by show­ing us amaz­ing specs as it was in the case of i8910, and I also expect a lot of bugs ini­tially and also some stu­pid ones(like the stop but­ton bug of web browser, lol).
      But on the other hand if it runs android then it may be good.
      I don’t wish for bada as Sam­sung really sux and it’s sup­port is bad and also I think devel­op­ers don’t make much stuff com­pat­i­ble with Samsung’s mobiles.
      I think I can see the future and I am look­ing at a bunch of peo­ple cry­ing to Sam­sung to fix the bugs,but Sam­sung is sit­ting qui­etly look­ing for­ward to the release of some other oper­at­ing sys­tem or some mobile,and peo­ple are cry­ing that please try to put some other OS on the mobile.
      And I am already think­ing about mak­ing a fourm where peo­ple will post their prob­lems releated to this new device.(as it hap­pened in the case of i8910) lolzzzz on samsung

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    • http://www.facebook.com/weaz.da.smel.cmn.4m Raheel

      Con­sei­der­ing all the hype about sam­sung not being able to cope with the issues with the device, specif­i­cally speak­ing about th i8910 on that part. Say­ing that I can still hon­estly say W0o00o0o0o00o00o0o0o0w to their phones.… Even I’m liv­ing in New Zealand where the i8910 had not net­work based relase and I per­son­ally pur­chased a Para­lell imported device that still amazes me.

      Mak­ing my point…samsung always have top of the line beath-taking devices, I think it all comes down to the con­sis­tency in the firmware pro­duc­tion??? Com­pared to apple when it was first released, their con­tin­u­ous sup­port on the device have made it more sta­ble over the years.…. I am hop­ing sam­sung does somthing d with the Bada OS.….

      Gut­ter­ing the i8520 is not based on Bada in this sense.…

      But stll look­ing for­ward to this phone here on the other side of the world. lol

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