Samsung SGH-i400

Samsung are promoting the SGH-i400 as both a smartphone with expandable software capabilities and a multimedia device with stereo speakers and an inbuilt music player. There's a 2.3″ 240×320 pixel display, a 2 megapixel camera and the SGH-i400 also supports microSD cards up to a maximum of 4GB.

Unlike the Z8, the SGH-i400 isn't a 3G device, only supporting tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz.. but on the plus side, the Samsung i400 weighs just 92 grams which is very light for a Symbian smartphone.

In Samsung's press release for the i400 they tout the phone as being a “Web 2.0″ device. That sounds impressive, although in reality it probably just means that the browser supports things like Java and Flash. Despite the clever tricks that manufacturers use in their mobile phones, any kind of web browsing on a 240×320 pixel display is always going to be a bit limited.

There's no full set of specifications for the Samsung SGH-i400 yet, and only a single publicity shot that shows it to be an elegant looking device. Samsung say that the i400 will be available in Russia from July 2007 with other countries coming after that.

Special thanks to Mobilegazette.com for this story !