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8th July 2006 - Showing distinctly more bling than your usual
Samsung, the SGH-E500 was originally announced last month,
but it's now just about due to hit the market. The Samsung
E500 is being unashamedly marketed as a phone for women, with
a selection of patterned designs and attractive detailing.
Female-friendly looks are one thing, but the SGH-E500 even
comes with an application where you can take a photograph
of yourself and paste different hairstyles onto it, there's
a calorie counter, biorhythm calculator and some other "girlie"
applications too. In addition to this, the E500's screen doubles
as a mirror.
Samsung say that the E500 is influenced by Botticelli's The
Birth of Venus (the one with the nude woman standing the the
seashell). Well, I suppose there's a clamshell in the painting.
Underneath all the shiny exterior is a pretty reasonable
mobile phone, with a 176x220 pixel display in 262,000 colours,
a 1.3 megapixel camera with flash, MP3 player, Bluetooth and
80Mb of internal memory.
The Samsung E500 is a tri-band GSM phone with GPRS and EDGE.
There's no expandable memory though, but overall the SGH-E500
isn't too bad in technical terms. And all of that fits into
a handset weighing only 85 grams and measuring 85x44x20mm.
According to Samsung, the E500 should have started shipping
in Russia in Q2 2006, followed by the rest of Europe.
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