Samsung L760 (SGH-L760)
Discontinued 12th July 2007
At first glance, the Samsung L760
looks like a case of Y.A.S.S. - or Yet Another
Samsung Slider. And yes, in purely hardware terms the
SGH-L760 comes with nothing that we haven't seen before.
However, the clever parts of the Samsung
L760 are in software. Designed as a bloggers phone,
the comes with an RSS reader and tools to upload content
directly to providers such as YouTube and Buzznet. It's
the first "L" series handset we've seen, so
we don't know for sure if this designation will be used
for "blogging phones" in the future.
We don't know how good the software
is on the SGH-L760 in practice, but the promised ease-of-use
with services such as YouTube could well be compelling
for those who like to generate and share their own content,
and a far easier way to do it than transferring files
to a PC, converting and then uploading them.
The
hardware on the Samsung L760 is pretty straightforward
- it's a 3G UMTS phone with a two megapixel digital
camera, video calling, a 240x320 pixel TFT screen
in 262,000 colours, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD expandable
memory, a multimedia player and FM radio. It's reasonably
lightweight and slim for a 3G phone at 93 grams and
100 x 47 x 15mm in size.
Unfortunately, we think that the SGH-L760
is missing something.. this would be an ideal handset
to supply with HSDPA (3.5G) data rather than plain old
UMTS. YouTube users may be frustrated by the maximum
384Kbps download and 128Kbps upload speeds.. a figure
that is several times faster with HSDPA. This would
have made it an ideal driver to bring customers to new
3.5G networks.
Still, if you want to share the content
you've made on your mobile phone and you have a call
plan that allows you to use lots of data, then the Samsung
L760 looks very interesting.
Samsung say that the SGH-L760 should
be available in Germany from July 2007, followed by
other European and Asia-Pacific countries. No pricing
information was available at the time of going to press.
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Samung
L760 (SGH-L760) at a glance
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Available:
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Q3
2007
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Network:
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GSM
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Data:
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GPRS
+ UMTS (3G)
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Screen:
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240x320
pixels, 262k colours
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Camera:
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2
megapixels
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Size:
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Medium
slider 100 x 47 x 15mm
/ 93 grams
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Bluetooth:
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Yes
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Memory
card:
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microSD
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Infra-red:
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No
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Polyphonic:
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Yes
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Java:
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Yes
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Battery
life:
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Not
specified
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