The Samsung Galaxy is a

smartphone A smartphone is a mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities. It typically has a touchscreen interface, allowing users to access a wide range of applications and services, such as web browsing, email, and social media, as well as multi ...

manufactured Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of the secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer to a ...

Samsung Samsung Group (; stylised as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean Multinational corporation, multinational manufacturing Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in the Samsung Town office complex in Seoul. The group consists of numerous a ...

that uses the

Linux Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...

-based Android operating system, which was purchased and further developed by

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and the

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to create an open competitor to other major smartphone platforms of the time, such as

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, and

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. The operating system offers a customizable graphical user interface, integration with Google services such as

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, a notification system that shows a list of recent messages pushed from apps, and

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for downloading additional apps. The device was announced on 27 April 2009 and was released on 29 June 2009 as the first

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device to use the Android operating system introduced in the

HTC Dream The HTC Dream (also known as the T-Mobile G1 in the United States and parts of Europe, and as the Era G1 in Poland) is a smartphone developed by HTC. First released in October 2008 for $179 with a 2-year contract to T-Mobile, the Dream was the f ...

(marketed as the T-Mobile G1), and the first in what would become the long-running

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series. It was succeeded by the

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in 2010.

Features

The Galaxy is a smartphone, offering quad-band

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and announced with tri-band

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(900/1700/2100) at 7.2 Mbit/s (however, Samsung's official pages for the Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish versions only mention dual-band

UMTS The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a 3G mobile cellular system for networks based on the GSM standard. UMTS uses Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, wideband code-division multiple access (W-CDMA) radio access technolog ...

900/2100). The phone features a 3.2-inch

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capacitive

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, a 5

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autofocus camera with power LED flash, and a digital compass. Unlike the first Android phone, the

(known as the T-Mobile G1 in the USA), the i7500 has a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, and a Directional Pad in place of a trackball. The Galaxy offers a suite of Mobile Google services, including

Search,

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, Google Calendar, and Google Talk. The phone's

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enables

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features such as My Location, and

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. It also supports

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(including

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Plus downloads) (only the codec, not the .aac format), and

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video. A beta version of the

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music streaming service was also available for this phone via the Android Marketplace.

Criticism

Due to a lack of software updates, Samsung received criticism from original Galaxy users. For some countries, Samsung updated the Galaxy's software to

Android Donut Android 1.6 Donut is the fourth version of the open source Android mobile operating system developed by Google. Among the more prominent features introduced with this update were added support for CDMA smartphones, additional screen sizes, ...

(1.6) version. Users from other countries could download and update manually at the risk of bricking the device.

References

External links

Samsung Mobile homepage

Official press release

Samsung Galaxy I7500 Owners Group
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Features

Criticism

See also

References

External links