Samsung S5600

Summary

Samsung S5600 (also known as Samsung Preston or Samsung Player Star (in France)) was announced in March 2009 and released in June 2009 as part of a range of touch-screen smartphones being released by Samsung.[1]

Samsung S5600 Preston
ManufacturerSamsung Mobile
SeriesS-Series
Compatible networksGSM 850/900/1800/1900/2100
3G 900/2100
Availability by regionOctober 2009
SuccessorSamsung Monte (S5620), Samsung S5600v
RelatedJet, Tocco Lite, Marvel
Form factorCandybar
Dimensions102.8 x 54.8 x 12.9 mm
Mass96g
Operating systemTouchWiz
Storage80MB
Removable storagemicroSD up to 16GB (microSDHC compatible)
BatteryLi-lon 1000mAh
Display240 x 320 pixels 16M colors
(TFT capacitive touchscreen)
External display2.8 inches
MediaMP3/WMA/AAC/H.263/H.264/WMV/MP4
Rear camera3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, LED flash
ConnectivityHSDPA 7.2 Mbps, Bluetooth 2.1 and USB 2.0

The phone has a 2.8 inches (7.1 cm) (240 x 320 pixels) QVGA full-touch screen, and OS TouchWiz User Interface and "Gesture Lock" feature. A 3.2 megapixel camera, music recognition via the use of Shazam's "Find Music" service, and multi-codec support including H.263, MPEG4 (mp4), and WMV. The connectivity for Internet is 7.2 Mbit/s HSDPA.

Language support edit

The phone was the first phone to support the Welsh Language and it followed an earlier experiment by the Samsung company who released a phone that supported the Irish language. The phone has a Welsh menu and a predictive text facility that calls on a database of 44,000 words in Welsh.[2] The phone was offered just in Orange shops in Wales in 2009.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Samsung 5600 Archived 2017-03-08 at the Wayback Machine, Samsung Mobile
  2. ^ "World's first Welsh language mobile phone". Welsh Language Board. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
  3. ^ Orange to offer Welsh language 5600, Pocket-Lint, August 2009, accessed March 2012