Samsung i5500 Corby aka Galaxy 5 Smartphone With Android: Review, Specs and Price

Valid until 31 January 2015 (unless noted)

Samsung i5500 Corby smartphone aka Galaxy 5 is almost out! Yeah Samsung has officially announced it with its release date and price info. According to the news, the i5500 will be released to public at first time in Europe on mid of June 2010 (this month) with $ 238 / € 199 on price tag. Like Samsung Monte S5620, Samsung Corby i5500 is categorized as a mid-range mobilephone and as its tail’s name, it is a family member of Corby series, a successor for the previous devices that already released by Samsung.

From the physical presence, Samsung i5500 Corby has same look and feel like other Corby series, small size with rounded corners body. What makes it special is it uses Android 2.1 Éclair smartphone OS. Other interesting thing, it has better specifications plus equipped with 600Mhz processor so Samsung Galaxy 5 handset can run faster than other Corby phones.

About the technical specs, the small-size Samsung Corby i5500 smartphone is covered with a capacitive touch-screen 2.8 inch QVGA display. It also has 2 Mega Pixels camera, accelerometer sensor, 100 MB internal memory plus microSD slot expandable up to 16GB and includes 1GB in selling package. For connectivity, Samsung i5500 Corby or Galaxy 5 supports WiFi 802.11 b/g connection with DLNA, 3G HSDPA, A-GPS, microUSB port, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR and 3.5 audio jack.



Samsung i5500 Corby / Galaxy 5 Full Specifications

NETWORK
2G GPRS/EDGE GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz; 3G HSDPA 7.2 Mbps 900/2100 MHz

DIMENSIONS
Measures 56 x 108 x 12.3 millimeters (Width x Height x Depth); Weight 102 grams

PROCESSOR
600MHz mobile phone processor

OPERATING SYSTEMS
Android v2.1 Éclair smartphone OS

DISPLAY
2.8 inch QVGA TFT LCD capacitive touch-screen with 240 × 320 resolutions

CAMERA
2-megapixel with Self Shot, Action Shot, Smile Shot and Panorama Shot features

VIDEO/AUDIO PLAYBACK
Video player MPEG4, H.264Format: 3gp (mp4); Audio player: MP3, AAC, AAC +, eAAC +, WMA, OGG, AMR-NB, WAV, MID, AC3, XMF, i-Melody

CONNECTIVITY
Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR support; WiFi connection 802.11 b/g

MEMORY
100MB internal storage; microSD slot up to 16GB; 1GB microSD memory included in selling package

BATTERY
1200 mAh Lithium-Ion

OTHER FEATURES
Chrome Lite browser; Accelerometer sensors; GPS with A-GPS Navigation Maps; Android Market; SMS, MMS, Email, Exchange ActiveSync synchronization; Using Offline Mode and No SIM Widgets; and many more.

The price for this handset is about €199, equal to $238 or around Rp. 2.200.000 in Indonesia. Within a week, Samsung i5500 Corby aka Galaxy 5 is expected to be released first in Italy through TIM and Wind.