Samsung i8520 'Halo'
Can we call it a super android?
According to the folks at Engadget, Samsung is about to release an android 2.1 based phone called “i8520 Halo”. The phone comes with the following features:
a 3.7-inch WVGA Super AMOLED display (bigger than the Wave’s 3.3-incher), 8 megapixel autofocus camera with flash (VGA on the front), 720p / 30fps video encoding / decoding, DivX and Xvid playback support, Bluetooth 2.1, standard 3.5mm headphone jack, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, A-GPS, 16GB of internal storage and microSD expansion, stereo speakers, DLNA support, and — get this — a DLP pico projector integrated. The spec-sheet also lists a “Specialized Projector UI” as one of the features, suggesting it’ll look a little different when you toss it up onto the big screen. This quad-band GSM / EDGE phone with tri-band UMTS 900 / 1900 / 2100 will ship in Q3 to Europe and Asia with a chance for a US version at some point later.
This definitely a step forward for the android phone family. An android phone with a projectors, a 8 megapixel camera, and all the apps in the android market? Samsung phone users should be finally ready to join the android family. What more can you ask for? Do you think android is finally becoming a global phenomenon?