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Samsung revealed that their flagship Android phone will only be released to the South African market in August
Last month Samsung announced that the GT-I9000 “Galaxy S” smartphone would be available to South Africans by “mid to end July.”
Various Samsung spokespeople confirmed on Thursday that the phone has been delayed until August 2010.
Robert Ngeru, Deputy Managing Director for Eastern and Central Africa said that they didn’t want to launch the device until they were sure they could adequately support such a launch.
Part of that support involves firmware updates for the underlying Android operating system.
Samsung has already said that the device will launch running Android 2.1 “Eclair” but will later receive an upgrade to Android 2.2 “Froyo.”
Ngeru said that updates will be pushed out over the air as a normal download for users. He confirmed that this meant normal data charges would apply to such downloads.
Dr Hung Song, Vice President of the Global Sales and Marketing team for Telecom Systems at Samsung said that they are making the Galaxy S available to certain international operators with mobile WiMAX capabilities. He added that such features could easily be made available in South Africa once such networks become available.
A look at the Samsung Galaxy S
Whilst the official launch has been delayed the Samsung Galaxy S was on display at the Samsung Africa Forum event.
Two of its most striking features are the size of its screen and the weight of the device. For a device with such a large screen (4” AMOLED) it’s surprising to find that it weighs less than most smartphones out there.
It sports a S5PC111CPU clocked at 1GHz, similar to the Qualcomm Snapdragons that power the HTC Desire and Google Nexus One but the animations feel much smoother than on the Desire. I could even go so far as to say that transitions between menus and apps feel as slick as on an iPhone.
Android fans might not like the fact that Samsung decided to remove the dedicated search button. The home button enlarged and centred along the bottom of the phone also might not appeal to some tastes but all in all it’s a good looking device with an impressive screen.
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