Samsung Cetus Windows Mobile 7 phone details outed
Samsung Cetus could be the first Windows Phone 7 mobile from the South Korean firm.
The Windows Phone 7 prototype that Microsoft has been exhibiting these past few weeks happens to be a Samsung machine called Taylor.
Details of the Samsung Cetus were discovered on the Bluetooth Special Interest Group website by Engadget. All devices that are Bluetooth enabled have to be registered with the Bluetooth SIG.
There are no photos of the Samsung Cetus available yet – neither official nor leaked. The price of the phone is not available yet, but looking at the specs we can confidently say that this will be priced about the same as other high-end smartphones in the market.
Samsung Cetus specifications
As we know, Windows Phone 7 mobile OS is Microsoft’s first big play in the smartphone market dominated by Android and iPhone. Samsung Cetus will meet all minimum Windows Phone 7 specifications. Some of the requirements for hardware manufacturers are a capactive touchscreen, microSD card of at least 8 GB, 256 MB of RAM, and 1 GHz processor. FM radio, accelerometer and six dedicated hardware buttons for home, back, search, camera, power and volume are some of the other minimum specs. The Samsung Cetus therefore will have all these features.
The Samsung Cetus SGH-i917 will be a smartphone with a 4-inch AMOLED (active matrix organic light emitting diode) touchscreen display capable of 800×480 pixel resolution. The Cetus will also have a 1 GHz processor, a sliding QWERTY keyboard, 1 GB of internal memory and instead of the minimum 256 MB RAM, the Cetus will probably carry 512 MB of RAM.
The Samsung Cetus SGH-i917 will have two cameras, a high res-5 mega pixel camera at the back and a VGA front camera for video conferencing. It will be WiFi 802.11b/g/n enabled, will use Bluetooth, and have a USB 2.0 port.
Other features include an FM radio and built in GPS with an electronic compass. It will also support Flash videos.
Windows Phone 7
Tech critics expect Windows Phone 7 to take the fight to Android and Google. Many mobile phone manufacturers are developing phones that’ll run Windows Phone 7. These include Asustek, LG, Dell and HTC. Dell’s Windows 7 Phone incidentally, is called Dell Lightening.
One of the just-revealed features of Windows Phone 7 is speech recognition and voice commands. The initial demos look promising, and it is very likely that the Samsung Cetus too would come with the feature.