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Samsung S8000

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Manufacturer
  
Samsung Mobile

Series
  
S-Series

Slogan
  
Impatience is a virtue

Availability by country
  
June 2009

Compatible networks
  
GSM: 850, 900, 1,800, 1,900, and 2,100 MHz 3G: 900 and 2100 MHz HSDPA: 3.6 Mbit/s

Successor
  
Samsung Jet Ultra Edition

Samsung Jet (also known as Samsung S8000), is a touch screen phone released in June 2009 by Samsung. It features an 800 MHz processor and a new WebKit browser called Dolfin, which will be available on Samsung phones in the future.

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Specification

  • Display: PenTile AMOLED
  • Resolution: 3.1 inches (7.9 cm) 16M-color R-Resistive touchscreen of 800 × 480 pixel resolution
  • Weight: 110 g
  • Dimension: 108.9 × 53.5 × 11.9
  • Battery Talk Time: up to 8.2 hours
  • Standby: up to 442 hours
  • Connectivity: HSDPA, WIFI and Bluetooth (A2DP)
  • The phone features an 800 MHz processor, a 5 MP camera, a 3.1-inch touchscreen AMOLED display, A-GPS, FM radio, 2 or 8 GB of internal storage with a microSD slot for an additional 16 GB and a Samsung developed Webkit-touting web browser entitled Dolfin.

    OS-wise it's said to be running TouchWiz 2.0 which is a Samsung developed UI. The device runs Samsung's proprietary operating system for this mobile segment. The videos recorded by the phone are at a D1 resolution at 30 fps using a low bitrate 3gp format.

    Android

    A group of developers (with some of the Darkforest forum) have successfully booted into Android, although calls and messaging do not work (yet). The project now goes under the name 'JetDroid'. Link to Jetdroid

    References

    Samsung S8000 Wikipedia