Samsung's SGH-I320 Q-killer

What's made by Samsung, runs Windows Mobile 5.0 with AKU2, and looks like the lovechild of a Blackberry 7100 and a Motorola Q? That'd be Samsung's new SGH-I320, which features a QVGA display, Bluetooth, 1.3 megapixel camera, and MicroSD slot. We'll keep you posted on its expected price/release, this one's looking good.

[blake @ Feb 13th 2006 9:49AM]

WOW, but windows would be the last thing i would want to power my handheld.

[Jordan @ Feb 13th 2006 9:50AM]

Oh man, that is hot! Love the QVGA!

[Kinmar @ Feb 13th 2006 10:07AM]

Man... whats with samsung and their mobile creations as of late. Do they just not have a development team of their own? Every mobile that they have announced lately seems to be a rip of a moto phone. You should change the title to Keeping it real fake Samsung edition.

[OneAboveAll @ Feb 13th 2006 10:15AM]

God as longs as its not a Palm or a Black Berry we're all good here.

[apeguero @ Feb 13th 2006 10:35AM]

This somehow looks nicer then the Q. I hope it comes out sooner too so it could stomp slow moving companies like Motorola.

[bartsay @ Feb 13th 2006 11:32AM]

small screen...but sweeeeeeet! i'd dump the i730 for it.

[james f. @ Feb 13th 2006 11:41AM]

Is it just me or does it sort of look like "The World's Greatest Graphing Calculator"?

[Simon @ Feb 13th 2006 11:49AM]

This is rubbish. It'll fail as who want's a device that looks like a scientific calculator, especially when there are lots and lots of competitors that look better and do the same thing

[Mutiny32 @ Feb 13th 2006 12:12PM]

This thing has Sprint written all over it.

[Paul @ Feb 13th 2006 1:02PM]

Looking good indeed!

[Damo @ Feb 13th 2006 1:15PM]

"The i320 has individual keys for every letter, but allows you to press multiple keys for numeric dialing." Does this mean you have to hit two buttons for each number dialed for making a phone call?

[Gwailo @ Feb 13th 2006 1:19PM]

Check out Arne's live pics over at the:unwired

http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=2902

Looking good! Bye bye Q! :-p

[Virtuous @ Feb 13th 2006 2:09PM]

I'd rather own a HTC Wizard. These portrait-oriented smartphones are difficult to hold and type at the same time. The Wizard has a much wider thumbboard and it's not that much bigger than a Treo.

[Mark Rich @ Feb 13th 2006 2:10PM]

Windows on a phone again? Who wants a phone you need to reboot every so often. It may be getting all the press but it's still a long way behind real phone OS's.

[dzuest @ Feb 13th 2006 3:21PM]

Don't think it'll be a Sprint phone. Its GSM.

[Jason @ Feb 13th 2006 3:41PM]

It may have more useable memory (120mb)but it's no 650 killer. There wasn't even a listing for wifi. PASS

[Tigrr @ Feb 13th 2006 3:54PM]

Ohh..ma-gawd. This looks so fine. Was going to wait for a GSM/EDGE/WHATEVA version of the Treo 700w...me-thinks to wait now.

[Tim @ Feb 13th 2006 8:25PM]

Anything that isn't from Motorola is a Moto-killer... That last thing that made sense from Motorola had to be the StarTAC.

[BillNye @ Feb 14th 2006 12:16AM]

No Backlit keyboard and no stylus... not sure if this is a step forward or backwards.. how does one play chess on Windows Mobile Smartphone 5.0?

[Tan @ Feb 14th 2006 2:44AM]

Consider the fact that moto has great sounds and noise canceling quality. My V710 is amazing when there's lots of background noise.

[ConceptVBS @ Feb 14th 2006 10:49AM]

Samsung has great sounds too. The noise cancelation feature has been around Samsung phones for years. It's even patented by them.

There is a backlight keyboard, however no stylus. Whats the point of having a stylus when the product was designed to be a one-handed operation pda/phone? With a stylus, that would make it a two-handed operation: very cumbersome.

[dan @ Feb 14th 2006 3:53PM]

A couple of observations...

1. It says it's a triband GSM phone supporting EDGE data, suggesting that Cingular is the likely carrier. However, Cingular already has a candybar style Windows Mobile smartphone, i.e., hp iPaq6515, and they'll probably get the WiFi-enabled iPaq 6900 during the summer, running Windows Mobile 5.0. Seems to me like these two phones have very very similar spec to be in the same lineup. Maybe Cingular will drop one favor of the other? Or carry both, with the hp more expensive and targeted at enterprise users on exchange servers? Or maybe it'll come to, god forbid, T-Mobile?

2. The graphing calculator comparison is quite apt. Specifically, the bottom-sloped keyboard and the dark color is reminiscent of hp financial calculator. Which is neither good thing or bad thing. Personally, i think it's a good looking phone.

3. I don't really place a great deal of importance on this "Samsung is copying motorola" talk. With the multimedia features on phones increasingly requiring larger screens and better keyboards, the only dimension that can be miniaturized without sacrificing functionality is the depth of the phone. Obviously, every company is going to try to reduce the thickness of the phone, since that's about the only form factor innovation left to do.

(Besides, I remember Samsung and a whole bunch of Japanese companies marketed super slim candybar style phones back in 2000~2001, when Motorola was still busy pumping out StarTac by the boat loads.)

[Big Al @ Feb 15th 2006 2:58PM]

Me likey berry much.

The Q is nice, but it has lots of strange grooves and ridges on the sides. I think the Sammy looks sleek, smooth, and very pocketable. Any chance of a CDMA version?

[werdmodo @ Feb 17th 2006 1:43PM]

This phone is slightly smaller than the Moto Q.

[Kevin @ Feb 22nd 2006 8:05AM]

When is it coming out more specific?

[Rob @ Apr 24th 2006 7:32PM]

All those people who can't get pass the mention of Microsoft or Windows really need to get over it. The Microsoft bashing and the jokes about rebooting and blue-screen are just getting old, innappropriate, and just plain wrong. You might have had an argument back when Win95/98 were new but to continue to live by that same mentality and sterotype now just shows how naive and narrow-minded you really are.