Samsung L870 (SGH-L870)
Discontinued 28th
May 2008
Billed as "Soul meets S60",
this attractive aluminium clad slider phone brings a
touch a Samsung
Soul styling to Symbian S60 smartphones.
The Samsung L870 is a 3.5G
device with a 3 megapixel camera and a 2.4" 240
x 320 pixel display. The SGH-L870 runs Symbian 9.3 with
the S60 3.2 interface, similar to most contemporary
S60 smartphones. In addition to the usual S60 multimedia
features, the L870 comes with an FM radio. There's also
a variety of push email support, an office document
viewer, personal information management applications
and we understand that the SGH-L870 comes with a mobile
version of the Apple Safari web browser. Samsung say
that the L870 offers "DVD quality" video capture,
but does not go into technical details.
So.. it's a good looking HSDPA slider
phone, but you might expect that the L870 was going
to get some tough competition from Nokia. But, oddly
enough, the only HSDPA slider phone from Nokia is the
N95
and N95
8GB. The Samsung L870 pitches somewhere below the
N95 on price, so surprisingly it seems to have found
a market niche.
As we just mentioned, the L870 doesn't
pitch against the N95. There's no GPS, no WiFi and the
main camera resolution is less. But it does compare
well against the Nokia
E65 (which lacks HSDPA but has WiFi) and the upcoming
Nokia E66 slider.
There are still some features that we
don't know about - for example, we cannot say if the
L870 has autofocus and a flash for the main camera. We
don't know how much the L870 weighs, or what the battery
life is. But what we can tell is that the L870 promises
to be a pretty good S60 handset, and it is one of the
few devices worth looking at if you want S60 on a platform
other than a Nokia.
The Samsung L870 should be available
in certain regions from August 2008 onwards.
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Samsung
L870 (SGH-L870) at a glance
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Available:
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Q3
2008
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Network:
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GSM
900 / 1800 / 1900 + UMTS
2100
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Data:
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GPRS
+ EDGE + UMTS (3G) + HSDPA
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Screen:
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240
x 320 pixels, 16m colours
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Camera:
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3
megapixels (main)
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Size:
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Medium
slider 104 x 51 x 14mm
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Bluetooth:
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Yes
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Memory
card:
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microSD
(4GB max)
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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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GPS:
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No
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Battery
life:
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Not
specified
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