Now for the goodies: the B5800 allows users to enjoy ‘User Created Contents’ via ‘Photo Movie Maker’ and you know what that equals…Awesomeness! Which means you can save your picture slides, which I don’t think any other phone can even do, and turn them into videos. No other big surprises for features other than the standard MP3 player, 2-megapixel camera, an audio book function, 330,000 word electronic dictionary (may or may not change if it hits US shores), file viewer and ‘My Pet’ function which is basically like having a Tamagotchi. The B5800 will also feature an optical joystick like function to navigate through menus but Samsung is nice enough to locate these on the sides so your pudgy fingers don’t take you somewhere you don’t want to go.
Better save up because this will set you back about $650!
Traffic reports on your Samsung [Samsung]
Looks nice. I’m always amazed at how innovative the market in Korea is. Samsung has been at the fore front of taking technology and marketing it to the consumer markets and at reasonably affordable prices.
I forgot to mention how small this phone looks. For so much stuff in it, it sure does pack a small size. It was also pretty smart to combine GPS/TPEG technology with the cell network rather with a separate GPS network makes it a lot easier for the user to get constant information as your phone communicates with the cell network anyways.
Thanks once again Peter for the eye candy… I think the one driving should be holding the camera though… damn photographers! Anyways, I doubt this will be of any use in any large metropolitan area… Toronto it would simply give up and have “congested” burned into the screen even when the phone was turned off. My guess Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York (Manhattan) would also suffer the same fate… though, if you live in the middle of nowhere, my guess is this phone will soon show fishing conditions… so maybe it does have a purpose after all!
Jon
I also forgot to mention that the 650$ price tag is ridiculous… I would prefer to buy a 10$ phone and “invest” the rest into a PS3… and integrated tomogotchi?
Here is a rundown of features
-phone (reason for purchase to begin with)
-joystick too small for most adults
-mp3 player
-camera
-dictionary
-tomogotchi
-audio voice recognition
-movie player (I bet you can watch streaming tv too)
-traffic notifier
Here are some features coming in the next version, out two weeks from now
-html editor
-scanner
-alternative mouse (incase your PC mouse dies)
-music player (you can record the jingles you play as you hit the # pad)
-USB intermediate (so you can transfer files from one USB device to another without computer)
… and if you turn it upside down when a picture of a friend is shown on the screen, the cloths come sliding off just like those novelty pens!
Jon
Traffic/landmarks come free with Google mobile apps!
For all you stalkers out there, the phone come pre-programmed with the GPS location of the two hotties in the photo.
Paul… you just won my business… the question now is how many other guys have you sold this phone too? I don’t want to have to take a number when I knock on their door for a date!
Jon
You know a product will rock when even the secondary girl in the image – the “driver” – is smiling. Of course, we should be glad that they’re on a set and not the road, because Girl #1 is obviously not wearing a seatbelt. XD