Samsung S5600
Samsung S5600 (also known as Samsung Preston or Samsung Player Star (in France)) was announced in March 2009 and released in June 2009 as part of a range of touch-screen phones being released by Samsung.[1]
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| Manufacturer | Samsung Mobile |
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| Series | S-Series |
| Compatible networks | GSM 850/900/1800/1900/2100 3G 900/2100 |
| Availability by region | October 2009 |
| Successor | Samsung Monte (S5620) |
| Related | Jet, Tocco Lite, Marvel |
| Form factor | Candybar |
| Dimensions | 102.8 x 54.8 x 12.9 mm |
| Mass | 96g |
| Operating system | TouchWiz |
| Storage | 80MB |
| Removable storage | microSD up to 16GB (microSDHC compatible) |
| Battery | Li-lon 1000mAh |
| Display | 240 x 320 pixels 16M colors (TFT capacitive touchscreen) |
| External display | 2.8 inches |
| Rear camera | 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, LED flash |
| Media | MP3/WMA/AAC/H.263/H.264/WMV/MP4 |
| Connectivity | HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, Bluetooth 2.1 and USB 2.0 |
The phone has a 2.8 inches (7.1 cm) (240 x 320 pixels) QVGA full-touch screen, and OS TouchWiz User Interface and "Gesture Lock" feature. A 3.2 megapixel camera, music recognition via the use of Shazam's "Find Music" service, and multi-codec support including H.263, MPEG4 (mp4), and WMV. The connectivity for Internet is 7.2 Mbit/s HSDPA.
Language support
The phone was the first phone to support the Welsh Language and it followed an earlier experiment by the Samsung company who released a phone that supported the Irish language. The phone has a Welsh menu and a predictive text facility that calls on a database of 44,000 words in Welsh.[2] The phone was offered just in Orange shops in Wales in 2009.[3]
References
- Samsung 5600, Samsung Mobile
- "World's first Welsh language mobile phone". Welsh Language Board. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
- Orange to offer Welsh language 5600, Pocket-Lint, August 2009, accessed March 2012