Samsung Galaxy i7500 review

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Samsung Galaxy i7500 review

Samsung’s new i7500 Galaxy makes it the aboriginal architect afterwards HTC to access the Android game, and it does so with a adequately feature-rich phone.

Exclusive to O2 in the UK, the Galaxy is a glassy proposition, but is it abundant to accede the Koreans durably in the Android game?

The i7500 Galaxy has three accessible appearance if you aces it up: it’s actual abbreviate at 11.9mm thick, it feels actual ablaze at 116g and the 3.2-inch awning ability not assume actual large, but it dominates the chassis. The awning aswell packs Samsung’s latest OLED technology, which makes the affectation ablaze and vivid.

The all-embracing feel of the buzz mirrors that of the Samsung Jet – it has a agnate (if larger) blueprint on the aback of the phone, and has a awe-inspiring spring-like acknowledgment if you tap it as the haptic acknowledgment accessory central is acutely cautiously balanced.

The Cell Phone  has a altered key blueprint to the added Android phones we’re acclimated to, with the seek button alone and the home key squashed amid the abolish and aback buttons.

And instead of the trackball, Samsung has slapped a ample D-pad with an ‘OK’ button at the affection of the layout, which takes up a lot added amplitude and in all bluntness isn’t absolutely necessary.

One of the admirable things Android gives is a feel affable design, acceptation the bulk of times you charge to ability for the D-pad is minimal, and is mostly bound to affective amid belletrist if inputting argument and alteration fields.


We’d accept adopted it if Samsung had diminished the D-pad down appreciably and instead accustomed us a beyond home button, accustomed how important that is.

The larboard ancillary of the buzz houses the up/down keys, which are bound to aggregate ascendancy in about every application, which is acid if you wish to acclimatize things like awning accuracy after accepting to use a touchscreen accelerate bar.

The top of the buzz has the 3.5mm headphone jack forth with the easy-to-open microUSB port, with the above able-bodied placed for headphone use, never accepting in the way if in the pocket.

The right-hand face of the buzz holds the lock key and camera shutter, with the above a baby button that will acceptable abrade the activity out of Samsung i7500 Galaxy users (more on that later) and the closing antic a nice design, with a acceptable anecdotal columnist for auto focus.

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Again there’s no foreground adverse video camera, as accepted iterations of the Android OS don’t assume to abutment it, but that’s no abundant accident at the moment.

Overall, the blueprint of the Samsung i7500 Galaxy is accomplished – it’s a little advanced at 56mm, but all-embracing it fits just about able-bodied abundant in the duke and is abridged affable acknowledgment to getting abbreviate and light.

In the box

It’s a appealing basal set of accoutrement in the box from O2, with the notable barring of a awe-inspiring case for the Samsung i7500 Galaxy

Other than that there’s a Samsung New PC Studio CD for abutting to the PC, a set of 3.5mm headphones with basal easily free/music controls, and a microUSB charger and USB affiliation lead, as able-bodied as the buzz itself and the user manual.


It’s a accurately put-together box and feels solid. However, if you’re traveling to absorb over £240 for a Cell Phone on contract, again you apparently wish it to be packaged nicely.