Samsung X640 (SGH-X640) Preview

Discontinued
29th January 2005

We currently know very little about this handset other than what it looks like. Part of a pair of new X-series clamshell phones from Samsung (along with the X480), the X640 has a VGA resolution digital camera and has what appears to be a 128x160 pixel display, most likely in 65,000 colours.

As you can see, the SGH-X640 retains the smooth look of most of the current crop of Samsung clamshells, but it has no external display. There's a large vertical LED on the device though which may act as a camera light, and a mystery round object just below the camera which may well be a mirror.

Based on what we know of similar handsets, we anticipate that the Samsung X640 will weigh around 80 grams and support downloadable Java applications and polyphonic ringtones, wallpapers and other customisation features, come with a WAP 2.0 browser and MMS messaging and will be dual band GSM (900/1800). It's possible that the X640 will support video capture too, with around 8Mb of internal memory. Email support is unlikely.

Delivery date isn't known, but we think that this will be available in Q2 2005, certainly in European markets but possibly others.

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