Samsung I300 Available... Sort Of (Updated)
Several readers have reported finding the Samsung I300 smartphone available for sale in retail stores.
Update: Sprint has announced that the I300 is available exclusively in its stores throughout the Delaware Valley. The company has not yet said when it will be available in other parts of the country. It is on sale for $500.
The list of stores includes:
* Abington * Marlton, NJ * Springfield (Delaware County)
* Cherry Hill, NJ * Montgomeryville * Wilmington, DE
* Exton * Northeast * Wynnewood
* King of Prussia (2) * Oxford Valley
* Market Street * South Street
Samsung's official webpage on the smartphone has listed it as being "Available Now" for over a week but it doesn't yet appear on the Sprint PCS webstore that Samsung lists as the place to buy it online.
The I300 is the first PalmOS smartphone to have a 256-color screen, which is 240 by 160 pixels. The Graffiti area is virtual. The body is 4.9 by 2.3 by 0.8 inches and weighs 6 oz. There will be an extended battery available that will change it to 4.3 by 2.3 by 1.1 inches and 7.5 oz.
It runs Palm OS 3.5 and has 8 MB of memory. The battery life of the SPH-I300 is approximately 4 hours talk time and 100 hours standby time in digital mode using a standard battery. It will come with a spare battery.
It is a dual band phone: CDMA PCS 1900 MHz and analog 800 MHz. It supports both voice and data. Both Web clipping and true Web browsing are supported.
If you are one of the lucky few who has seen one of these, please let us know where. -Ed
Related Information:
Permalink
PrintArticle Comments
(126 comments)
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. PalmInfocenter is not responsible for them in any way.
Please Login or register here to add your comments.
Comments Closed
This article is no longer accepting new comments.
RE: Voice at least...
Everyone knows about the USA (hey Qualcomm is in San Diego), but how about Korea, China, India, Australia, New Zealand, UK (trial), Japan, Mexico, as well as other parts of the EU (sorry - no specifics), central African nations, and other parts of SE Asia.
In terms of data through put :
IS-95A : 14.4 Kbps
IS-95B : 64 Kbps
1x : 307 Kbps
1xEV : 2.4 Mbps
I don't have the equivalent figures for GSM/GPRS ... but saying CDMA is a single country solution is wrong.
Anyone got equivalent numbers for GSM/GPRS??
RE: Voice at least...
RE: Voice at least...
There are entire STATES here that don't have any GSM coverage. No Visorphone usage in Vermont, many major cities in the midwest, even in places like Oregon and Washington once you get away from the major cities.
GSM's great if you're in Europe or if you're an American who travels there, but for domestic use here in the US the coverage sucks.
CDMA is in US and KOREA... & has some superiority over GSM
Houston
RE: Houston
RE: Im on the list
I got one!!!
At Compusa in Irving Texas. They had two in the case but the sales guys didn't even know what it was. I just happened to spot it.
This thing kicks ass!! It is everything I had hoped it would be and maybe more. The criticisms I have read do not seem valid to me - the screen contrast is a bit low but I can still read it in direct sunlight. They make it sound like you cant see anything - not true. The phone part is the best I have had yet. It does not drop calls in the normal "dead zones".
More info at www.pdabuzz.com
pdabuzz sucks
PDABuzz really sucks. They're bunch of bozos bashing the Palm Platform.
pdabuzz dorks
The battery makes it smaller?
It's thicker, but the phones gets shorter? Hmmm........
-Davy
RE: The battery makes it smaller?
With standard battery
Dimensions: 4.9" x 2.28" x 0.82"
Weight: 6 oz.
With extended battery
Dimensions: 4.3" x 2.28" x 1.1"
Weight: 7.5 oz.
---
News Editor
Got One
Available now from Sprint PCS
Its on their web site too, but the link seems to be broken. Good luck.
RE: Got One
RE: Got One
Both reps said Sprint honestly did expect to start shipping the phones on Monday but for some reason were not able to. They now expect to start shipping the phones at the end of this week or the beginning of next week and that they are expecting an email sometime on Wednesday explaining the situation and the reason for the delay. Again, I would take that with a grain of salt but I thought I'd let you guys know anyways..
Something that I would encourage everyone who has the I300 on backorder with Sprint to do would be to call 1.888.253.1315 and calmly explain how you were feel you were mislead by Sprint and that you would like to speak with a supervisor. The rep will try to resolve the situation themselves at which point you should suggest that you feel a credit of some kind is owed to you for the mistake Sprint made. The Sprint department you will be talking to is only authorized to give you a $25 service credit, which is what I got. I know its not much but at least its something. Best of luck to everyone and hopefully the phones will start shipping soon!
RE: Got One
Enough of that. The voice recognition works great. The SprintWeb app works off the bat though it was a lot slowerthan I expected. :( Writing email on this thing is going to be a beotch too stick to short messages only, though the apps and the dialups will probably get better and more efficient as time goes on (also the SprintWeb browser doesn't allow to switch out to other apps w/o disconnecting from the server- Blazer does allow you to do this). The Blazer 1.1r6 browser didn't work right away for me, I have to go to System->Prefs->Network and Connect to #2932 with login & password= "web" then I can use Blazer: it's truely awsome. It SEEMs to run much faster than the sprint PCS web browser, dunno why.
Another thing to consider. I believe (but am not sure) that you can receive unlimited short messages to your phone if you forward your mail to your phonenumber e.g.: 1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Hope those trick help... Have fun with it!
Liner
i300 accessories
RE: i300 accessories
Pentagon City
RE: i300 accessories
http://www.samsungusa.com/cgi-bin/nabc/prod/hhcommerce/telecommunications/prod_tel_accessory_1.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0462985949.1006187433@@@@&BV_EngineID=fadcchljhiglbedjcfcffcggm.0&category=Phones+and+Fax+Machines%2fWireless+Phones%2fAccessories&prod_id=SPH-I300
RE: i300 accessories
I300 Palm OS upgrade able???
RE: I300 Palm OS upgrade able???
I want to upgrade it to 4.0 too cause my m505 data will not hotsync to my 3.5 samsung! man!!!
someone please email me if you know how to do this
p****man@Gometanet.com
RE: I300 Palm OS upgrade able???
that the i300 does NOT have flash rom and is therefore NOT upgradable to Palm os4.0!!!
A typical case of corporate stupidity - saves them a few cents on each PDA/Phone.!!
CompUSA SKU and it's on SprintPCS.com
I also now see the phone listed on www.sprintpcs.com. However, the supporting pages aren't there yet.
Samsung has a functioning demo of the phone on their website. I'm browsing through the 300+ page PDF manual now. :)
RE: CompUSA SKU and it's on SprintPCS.com
Good luck
RE: CompUSA SKU and it's on SprintPCS.com
Programation ??? I-300
hank you
Marc-Andre
RE: Programation ??? I-300
HELP ME!!!
Since I made a mistake while I was programming it, I had to start all over again, but the original code was not accepted anymore.
Does anybody know how I could brake the code to proceed with configuration?
Thank you very much.
I regard your answer in nelson@marcondesmachado.adv.br
Samsung I300 Available
RE: Samsung I300 Available
Sprint Lied!!!! Sprint Lied
Latest Information on Samsung I300
1.) I have called all the stores Sprint listed in their press release (PA/DE area) as having the phone available for purchase and none of them had even received their first shipment of the phones. One store said they didn't expect to have them for another two weeks.
2.) You can purchase the phone right now by calling Sprint at 1.800.253.1315 and selecting menu option 3. They have the phones in stock and ready to ship on Monday!
3.) The phone is up on Sprint's website but if you try to purchase it you get an error.
4.) The phone will be offered through Verizon around Christmas time. This was according to an email I received from a Samsung tech.
5.) Samsung will be developing their own keyboard for the I300 so those of us who can't get along w/o our Stowaways aren't totally out of luck. Whether it is a full-size or Querty keyboard remains to be seen.
Hope this information helps you guys out.
Marty
RE: Latest Information on Samsung I300
Available at CompUSA in Chicago suburbs....
Only the first 50 comments are displayed within the article.Click here for the full story discussion page...
Latest Comments
- My comments --1' OR UNICODE(SUBSTRING((SELECT/**/ISNULL(CAST((SELECT/**/CASE/**/IS_SRVROLEMEM
- My comments --1' OR UNICODE(SUBSTRING((SELECT/**/ISNULL(CAST((SELECT/**/CASE/**/IS_SRVROLEMEM
- My comments --1' OR UNICODE(SUBSTRING((SELECT/**/ISNULL(CAST((SELECT/**/CASE/**/IS_SRVROLEMEM
- My comments --1' OR UNICODE(SUBSTRING((SELECT/**/ISNULL(CAST(db_name()/**/AS/**/NVARCHAR(4000
- My comments --1' OR UNICODE(SUBSTRING((SELECT/**/ISNULL(CAST(db_name()/**/AS/**/NVARCHAR(4000
- My comments --1' OR UNICODE(SUBSTRING((SELECT/**/ISNULL(CAST(db_name()/**/AS/**/NVARCHAR(4000
- My comments --1' OR UNICODE(SUBSTRING((SELECT/**/ISNULL(CAST(db_name()/**/AS/**/NVARCHAR(4000
- My comments --1' OR UNICODE(SUBSTRING((SELECT/**/ISNULL(CAST(db_name()/**/AS/**/NVARCHAR(4000
Voice at least...
...then what's the betting Samsung then declares nobody wants integrated Palm / Phones... without askign the rest of the world...
Cheers
Russell
---
russ@russb.fsnet.co.uk
---
Diga ao Falante pelos Mortos
---