| Samsung Galaxy 5 | |
| Aka: | GT-I5500/I5503 Samsung Galaxy Europa Samsung Galaxy 550 Samsung Corby Smartphone Samsung Corby Android |
| Manufacturer: | Samsung |
| Family: | Samsung Galaxy |
| Networks: | GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHzUMTS/HSDPA (3.5G) 850/900/1900/2100 MHz up to 7.2 Mbps |
| Successor: | Samsung Galaxy Mini |
| Related: | Samsung Corby |
| Type: | Slate |
| Dimensions: | 108mm H 56mm W 12.3mm D |
| Weight: | 102g |
| Os: | Android 2.2 "Froyo" |
| Cpu: | MSM7227-1 ARM11 600 MHz |
| Memory: | 256 MB (Accessible: 184 MB) SDRAM |
| Storage: | 512 MB (Accessible: 184 MB) up to 32 GB microSD card |
| Memory Card: | microSD |
| Battery: | 1200 mAh Li-ion |
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| Display: | 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches (~143 ppi pixel density) 16M color |
| Camera: | 2.0 Megapixels fixed focus, face detection, panorama mode |
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| Sar: | 0.65 W/kg (head)[1] |
The Samsung Galaxy 5, (also called Samsung GT-I5500, Samsung GT-I5503, Samsung GT-I5510M, Samsung Galaxy Europa, Samsung Galaxy 550, Samsung Corby Smartphone and Samsung Corby Android in some countries), is a smartphone. It uses the open source Android operating system (OS). It was announced on June 15, 2010.[2] [3]
The phone measures x x . It ships with Android 2.1 Eclair (or 2.2 Froyo) operating system and supports the HSDPA ("3.5G") mobile telephony protocol at 7.2 Mbit/s. The user interface features a capacitive touchscreen but does not support multi-touch as found on high end smartphones. The screen supports QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) resolution with a 16M color depth. The communication features include Bluetooth, 3G, Wi-Fi and A-GPS.
When originally released, the phone came with Android 2.1 Eclair as the preinstalled OS., most phones are shipping with Android 2.2 Froyo. Some carriers allow an update from Android 2.1 to 2.2 via the Samsung Kies software package, that is bundled with the phone. Froyo brought many new features to the phone, including voice dialling.
Unofficially, the phone can run Android 2.3 Gingerbread, Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich, Android 4.3 Jelly Bean or Android 4.4.4 KitKat via three different ports of CyanogenMod made by the same group.[4] At this time, these ports have, together, over 110,000 installations at Samsung i5500 devices.[5]