Samsung SPH-m620

CDMA 1x EV-DO 800 / 1900MHz Cellular Phone

Chipography - Level 1

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Product Description

The music-centric Samsung “UpStage” SPH-m620 combines a conventional cell phone with a personal media player, each of which has its own display and its own control keys on opposite sides of the bar-style product. The phone-side display is a small 176 x 65 pixel, 64K-color TFT-LCD, with a simple four-item menu that is easily read. Also located on the phone side of the body is a 1.3-Mpixel camera with a dedicated shutter key, in keeping with the less-is-more approach to the phone’s physical interface in which each key has a single function. The “Flip” button-switch, on the side of the product body, activates the personal media player (PMP). On the PMP side of the product is found a large 176 x 220 pixel, 256K color TFT-LCD with an icon-based menu and a square, touch-sensitive navigation pad located just below. The center “OK” (select) key is the only real button on the PMP side. Due to the unusual two-sided design, the user cannot replace the internal battery in the m620. Samsung has attempted to turn this shortcoming into a plus by supplying a supplemental “battery wallet” that extends playing and call times, but adds weight and thickness to the unit. The battery wallet must be charged through the phone via a cable. The m620 is a CDMA 1xEV-DO handset currently available only from Sprint in the US. Additional features of the m620 include a WAP-compliant Web browser; two-way text messaging with voice dictation; a microSD slot (a 64MByte card is included in the package); a 3.5mm headset adapter with microphone; video-recording capability; and voice recording.

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