Samsung SGH-X820, also known as ''Ultra Edition 6.9'', is a

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created by

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and announced in Q3 2006, as part of the

Samsung Ultra Edition Samsung Ultra Edition is a former series of mobile phones from Samsung Electronics that were designed to be extremely slim and minimalistic. The first range was introduced in June 2006 which included the Samsung SGH-X820, X820, dubbed the "world's ...

range. Samsung marketed the device as "the world's slimmest mobile phone", and as a competitor to the

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. The X820 surpassed

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, released that same year, which Samsung previously marketed as "the world's slimmest". The carrier-unlocked U.S. price on late July 2006 was $449.00.

Hardware

The X820 features a 2-inch-diameter and 262,000-color LCD screen with a 220×176-pixel resolution in landscape screen layout instead of the usual portrait screen layout of other phones. The phone uses GPRS and EDGE for mobile Internet, and contains

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v1.2 for close range wireless connectivity. The device holds a built-in, roughly 2-

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, thus taking pictures with a maximum resolution of 1600×1200 pixels. The camera is in the top part of the phone, clearly visible where the phone is a bit thicker. Video recording is at a resolution of 352×288 pixels (CIF). One of the early complaints was that this phone does not have a memory expansion slot; the device only has 80 MB of built-in memory. The major deficiency turned out to be the phone's case design, which was weak enough to allow the device to break into two parts with little effort. * (playable video referenced in the source article accessible from the following reference) * For many users, this fault would not manifest itself until after extensive use.

Successors

After the release of ''X820'', the world's slimmest mobile phone record has since been surpassed by Samsung's Ultra Edition II 5.9mm (U100). Samsung later created a slimmer phone called the

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References

External links

Mobile Review's Review

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