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New Samsung i300x New Model and Improved Specs

#4 siksik6

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Posted 15 January 2006 - 02:47 PM

Never mind all that nonsense. Have they improved the battery life?

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Posted 15 January 2006 - 03:03 PM

siksik6, on Jan 15 2006, 15:47, said:

Never mind all that nonsense. Have they improved the battery life?

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It's still a samsung isn't it ?

Hardware looks identical so I doubt it unless wm2005 makes a massive difference.

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Posted 15 January 2006 - 03:11 PM

Weird, I questioned Samsung UK PR on Friday about this and they said it only had launch details in Korea atm.

Watch this space, i'll be reviewing the i300 this week, and indeed giving one away

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Posted 15 January 2006 - 03:32 PM

Paul [MVP], on Jan 15 2006, 16:11, said:

Weird, I questioned Samsung UK PR on Friday about this and they said it only had launch details in Korea atm.

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The details of the i300 (2003) seem to have been pulled from Samsung's UK website, and the i300x details are live there now. If it was Korea only for now then they wouldn't have done this surely? Launching/announcing a newer model 1 month after the 'old' one becomes freely available in a market is bad PR - who's going to buy an outdated i300 now when they can get a larger capacity and wm2005 ( allegedly) ?

But if it takes the same length of time to arrive here after announcing, that the i300 itself did, then it's a good 1/2 year or so off :|

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Posted 15 January 2006 - 04:58 PM

so unfair.
i asked the guy, before getting my sp5m, at the O2 shop if there were plans to release one with WM5 - answer: "No, we dont do that."

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Posted 15 January 2006 - 05:44 PM

Me wants an i300

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Posted 15 January 2006 - 08:34 PM

Paul [MVP], on Jan 15 2006, 15:11, said:

Weird, I questioned Samsung UK PR on Friday about this and they said it only had launch details in Korea atm.

Watch this space, i'll be reviewing the i300 this week, and indeed giving one away

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And how mights yous be giving this away Mr P??
A competition of some kind?

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PS. Here's hoping the i300x can last a day of moderate use, then one might be on the cards.

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Posted 15 January 2006 - 08:47 PM

Any more news/rumours as to whether this is going to see the light of day on Orange?

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Posted 15 January 2006 - 09:34 PM

Yes, there will be a competition

A day of moderate use? Hmmm, pretty tight with the standard battery

No info re: Orange release...

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Posted 15 January 2006 - 11:09 PM

Hopefully the new HD is more efficient and the addition of WM5 may help a bit with battery life.

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Posted 15 January 2006 - 11:12 PM

doubt it would be released on orange as they were the first ones to have SPV's and have a range of them unlike O2. This one is "O2's" version of SPV's if you like....

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Posted 16 January 2006 - 12:38 AM

Seems two different sites for the i300 with different specs from the same company are still up...

samsung.com/uk:

http://www.samsung.com/uk/products/mobilep...p?page=Features

and uk.samsungmobile.com:

http://uk.samsungmobile.com/mobile_phone/s...00x/feature.jsp

wonder who's right, and if we'll see the i300x here in the UK?...I'm betting we won't but it's a helluva slip up if we aren't going to for it to be on the 2nd website...

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Posted 16 January 2006 - 12:59 AM

Tech, on Jan 16 2006, 00:12, said:

doubt it would be released on orange as they were the first ones to have SPV's and have a range of them unlike O2. This one is "O2's" version of SPV's if you like....
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o2 were the first with a (HTC) windows mobile phone / pda, and currently have the o2 x-phone range - and this is nothing like an SPV. There's no dust inside it

If they wanted an 'o2' version of the spv they'd, er, sell an o2 branded HTC handset in the UK like those already available in other o2 terratories.

I can just image Peter Erskine now....

( Oh no! Orange have the SPV in the UK! Aha! But we have the X-phone design! - but we'd better not sell it in the UK as unlike the XDA it would never do to have multiple clones of the same phone on the market! Quick, lets launch the samsung i-300 as 'our' SPV!)

Orange have run down stocks of the c550 on PAYG so perhaps they need another smartphone 'music player' and there are rumours they are thinking about the i300:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/21/or..._takes_on_ipod/

"Orange also let on that it was currently looking at the two hard disk based phones – the Nokia N91 and the Samsung SGH-i300 "

o2's exclusivity in the uk for the handset expires in a week's time. I hope orange do launch it as then I'll get the proper settings from them but we'll see. Maybe in a few months/years. :roll:

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Posted 16 January 2006 - 02:23 AM

fluffcat1, on Jan 16 2006, 00:38, said:

The UK link is for the i300 and not the i300x so both sites are correct

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Posted 16 January 2006 - 02:40 AM

awarner [MVP], on Jan 16 2006, 03:23, said:

The UK link is for the i300 and not the i300x so both sites are correct

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They're both UK links, but one would seem to be the responsibility of Samsung UK overall, the other Samsung Mobile UK.

Now, you'd think Samsung Mobile would have the correct specs if one of them were to be wrong but they list the i300x as opposed to the i300 which is already out here, and in the 'mobile history' pages on that site, there is *no* mention of the i300! But it goes back as far as the a300, my first samsung mobile circa 2001!

And to muddy the waters further, Samsung's UK PR says it (i300x) won't be out over here and they don't know why it's on the website...

Hmmmmm.....

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Posted 16 January 2006 - 09:41 AM

How is battery life with the 1700 mah battery?

How is the reliability of the hard drive. Phones take a beating and tiny little moving parts seem like a bad idea.

Also, is this phone not quad band? No 850 listed?

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Posted 16 January 2006 - 11:13 AM

Socrates, on Jan 16 2006, 09:41, said:

I get a day with the big battery

Tri-band, not quad band...

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Posted 16 January 2006 - 12:41 PM

Any word on when it's coming out in Europe?

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Posted 16 January 2006 - 02:03 PM

vinterbird, on Jan 16 2006, 13:41, said:

Any word on when it's coming out in Europe?
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The i300 is completely cancelled for release in Europe and will be replaced by the i300x. No ATA though.

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Posted 16 January 2006 - 07:09 PM

What about the processor? In a 2005 review i read about a pxa272 processor clocked on 416 mhz!

Btw. nice that there will be a 10 pins to 3,5mm connection standard in the packet! Oké I know the 3,5mm connection should be a standard in a phone called "music phone" but nonetheless it should be a better quality as mine 2,5to3,5 connection!

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