Samsung I8520 Galaxy Beam
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- Engineer Man
- n5Q
- 20 Jul 2010
The BEAM has some brilliant Stereo Loudspeakers whereas the N8 Monaural Loudspeaker may still be very good. But GPRS & EDGE is only Class 12. The Nokia N8 does have GPRS & EDGE Class 33, which matters if you live in places like India or wheres theres no 3G 7 you are still using GPRS.
HSDPA of the N8 at 10.2mbps is faster but no UK network takes advantage of 7.2mbps let alone 10.2mbps, so most people of most areas may use 3G, 3.5G HSDPA anyway. So GPRS is the be all end all to many. The BEAM though can do swype txt, Handwriting which is nice.
In the Media Playback department the N8 can play Windows Media Videos whereas that's the N8's only Media playback advantage over the BEAM. The BEAM having a higher resolution screen & SAMOLED will have better edge definition to watching movies & playing back images & home videos.
The N8 images will look superior & overall the 720P capture quality will be better on the N8. I don't know whether the GPU of the N8 is more powerful than the BEAM. Not sure which GPU BEAM has. So N8 may be better for Video gaming. Ofc theres lots of features & touches the N8 has over the BEAM.
8Mp can be decent enough if it's got a great image sensor & if the camera & video quality is decent enough & samsung have done a good job there. Then you can't beat the BEAM for an all round device. I think Nokias next multimedia phone is going to be something special considering. There needs to be a phone that has a mergence of technologies from the N8 & BEAM I think. A true high end phone.
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- Sie
- pTF
- 20 Jul 2010
Down from a 800Mhz processor to 720? Why the change, Samsung?
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- Anonymous
- n4K
- 19 Jul 2010
AnA, 19 Jul 2010I just purchased this Beam 2 days ago. This is really a fan... morepost some pics of the camera or a video please thx
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- Engineer Man
- n5Q
- 19 Jul 2010
Now that www.Tech65.org have already posted a short teaser unboxing video. We are STILL waiting for them to post their full review on this phone. I wish they would hurry it up please. Daniel either reviewed or posted the vid to the web. Daniel come on?
What are you doing? The unboxing video was out thursday & the phone was officially available to buy in singapore on sat 17th! It's now hte 19th July after having a couple of days already to review the phone! Why are you taking so long ...I'd have jumped at the chance to review it as quickly as pos & get it online. These days it's not hard to review & get info to people fast. Come on people!
I guesse GSMarena won't get a review sample until Samsung releae the phone to the european market EST ETA hopefully this end of July or August. I hope they don't postpone Uk release to October. That will really upset us all. We need to make decision on next purchase so we can either pre order or take time to decide on other phones.
Thanks for listening to my rant! -Tech65
Cheers!
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- AnA
- RFj
- 19 Jul 2010
I just purchased this Beam 2 days ago. This is really a fantastic phone in term of the concept of using the projector on a phone. Initially, I was thinking why do we really need a project for a mobile phone? However, my concept changes totally once I owned it. For sure, my future phone cannot go without the projector feature. Well done Samsung.
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- Anonymous
- wrY
- 18 Jul 2010
I wonder if they used the hummingbird processor in this phone like the galaxy s. Going to pick it up in singapore this week
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- tictoc
- pKL
- 18 Jul 2010
Nanrk, 16 Jul 2010The Samsung Galaxy Beam unlocked is priced at £416 fo... moreI've have one on order from www.kingofgadgets.co.uk for 399.99 UK pounds
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- rohit
- uw@
- 18 Jul 2010
when its gonna launch in india?
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- Stefan
- LaK
- 17 Jul 2010
I was ready to buy the galaxy s even without the much debated lack of a led flash until i saw this phone. It looks like Samsung have not stated when the beam will be released in Europe. Does enyone have new imformations? Thanks.
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- Anonymous
- n4K
- 17 Jul 2010
visitor, 16 Jul 2010It's online now in Singapur. http://www.samsungmobile.com.... moreits not possible to record hd video at 30fps with a 720mhz. It is a 800mhz !!!
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- AMANITA
- s8e
- 17 Jul 2010
Nice phone with good features but poor led flash and itz too ugly just like other phones of samsung !
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- visitor
- 0yI
- 16 Jul 2010
It's online now in Singapur.
http://www.samsungmobile.com.sg/mobile-phones/phone-search.do
I worry about only a 720Mhz OMAP and support for only 16GB MicroSD-Cards.
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- Nank
- YQD
- 16 Jul 2010
The Samsung Galaxy Beam unlocked is priced at £416 for UK and equalent for elsewhere, it'll be available by the end of this month..
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- Nanrk
- YQD
- 16 Jul 2010
The Samsung Galaxy Beam unlocked is priced at £416 for UK and equalent for elsewhere, it'll be available by the end of this month..
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- Viktor
- n{j
- 15 Jul 2010
@Engineer Man
I suppose it's a pointer.
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- Gooster
- q}7
- 15 Jul 2010
I hope the reception is better than the Galaxy and wave.... love the phones but the reception is terrible
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- Engineer Man
- n5Q
- 15 Jul 2010
@Viktor.
Nice to see *NEW* quick video review so early. We can't wait to see the Full Review! please hurry it along
p.s any ideas what that strange isoceles shaped object might be?
@Anonymous.
It's nice to see a second *NEW* video for singapore launch besides the "Unboxing Video". In this video, every aspect of this mobile is looking better than anticipated I have to say. Also the speed & the CPU are excellent choice & will only help further battery life, it looks quick enough too.
What is MOST exciting about this phone is that it manages to sqeeze in brilliant sounding loudspeakers, wifi b,g,N, BT 3.0, quad band radio. FM radio/recorder, projector/OHP, 3.7" SAMOLED screen, Capacative multi touch input, 16GB internal/32GB MicroSD, 8MP camera, 120x720P video, brilliant gaming GPU.
But what I think puts the icing on the cake.. MOST important key aspect is having multi extensible format support with most MEDIA type files. mp3, wma, ogg, aif, aac, e-aac+. DiVx, XviD, H.263, H.264 etc... JUST BRILLIANT!
This phone is looking so good in this video it's looking fery positive indeedy. Again. Can't wait for the Full Vid Review. Sure everyone else is too.
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- Anonymous
- n4K
- 14 Jul 2010
again a old video .............................
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- Anonymous
- PId
- 14 Jul 2010
samsung galaxy beam has office too buddy chewck this video, say when you have facts dont draw baseless conclusions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acuHTBaaxCU
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- Manoj prasad
- uwg
- 14 Jul 2010
Samsung forgot to include pocket office integration....
If u are giving a projector you should include ppt files presenter.. what is the use of projector, watching movie, picture.... grrrrrrrrrrrrrr rubbish...
make it useful for professionals too.....