FCC Approves Samsung i550 Smartphone

I don't spend much time reading PDF files on the FCC site... but what is with the "Test Setup Photos" in the link above that shows weird photos outside, with blocks of blue foam, and what appears to be a hunting blind in the background. Is this normal?

Comments on this phone seem to go back nearly a year, so I guess we shouldn't hold our breath on an imminent release.
--gh

Anyone here a fan of '24', if you are then you'll realise cellphones play an important part in the show, as does product placement. Last season Nokia phones were ubiquitous however this time Samsung have paid the money to get some airtime for their products.

Anyway, I digress. Tonight episode 10 was being shown in the UK and I couldn't help but notice that an i500 or i550 phone was used in CTU by one of the characters. They actually look bigger that I was expecting.

So, who's going to be the first with a screen grab?

Maybe its a low power slot for WIFI so that your phone lasts longer ;-)

Serving Christ thru serving others,

Stuart

Any chance these will show up on the Verizon network? My contract is up as are the contracts for 90% of my co-workers, I'm hoping for a nice group contract with all new phones.

I personally prefer the SGH-i505 (with it's twist & flip display), but wish Samsung would add this one's hi-res screen to it.

To my mind, this new model suffers from feature creep: MP3 player buttons on the outside, megapixel camera. What next, built-in shoe-buff? Cup-holder? Like the cartoon said, "Do you have anything more modern and useless?"

I find it very frustrating waiting over a year for Samsung to release a Palm 5 smartphone, only to see the products constantly superceded, but still unreleased!! I should stop reading news here, but I CAN'T HELP IT.

It should be since it's being FCC aproved and has a Sprint label on it. It seem that real competition for the Treo 600.

And since it has an external OLED screen the mp3 external buttons may be useful if you can search them using the external buttons without opening the phone.

Technology moves faster than you can afford... at least for me.

This thing is nice with the hi-res screen, but I want a cell phone that doesn't make me look like a freak. I don't mind being labeled geek, but the cell phone will attract eyes in possibly not so good ways.

If only there were a hi-res Treo. Possibly with bluetooth.

I hate carrying stuff. I don't want batman's utility belt!

Samsung is the closest to release a product I have been looking and waiting for now for over a year.

I would like:

1) Palm OS 5.x/6
2) SD Slot
3) Wi-Fi and/or Bluetooth
4) MP3 Player (should come with Palm OS ability)
5) Hi-Res screen
6) Twist top clam shell form
7) Excellent cell phone
8) External LCD
9) MegaPixel Camera (though I can do without, security is starting to crack down on these ...)

If you look at that list Samsung has a variety of phones with 7 of the 9, a different 7 across so many phones. Phones we've seen, talked about, have had at various tech shows, but have yet to have delivered. Fortunatley or unfortunately ... I am just sure that now that they've worked us up they'll release some of the "not quite right" combinations and then later release "the one cell phone" to rule them all. I've never been a patient one so I end up being an upset one ...

The i505 we've seen and had shown here is the closest, wish it had hi-res screen and wi-fi though! Samsung ... do it right the first time and you can take the market easily. Give the full featured phone, don't cut us short!

Seize the moment!