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New Samsung phone comes powered by Symbian, loaded with Safari

2008/06/07

The world's second-largest mobile phone manufacturer, Samsung, has now unveiled a new handheld that comes with an interesting software combination. The L870 is a 3G slider phone which measures 103.5 x 50.5 x 13.5 mm and features a 2.4-inch 16 million color TFT display boasting a 240x320 resolution. The handheld also comes with a 3 megapixel camera, 100 MB of shared memory, a microSD card slot, FM radio and Bluetooth 2.0.

While the hardware is at least decent and not out of the ordinary Samsung's L870 stands out almost like an iPhone running Windows Mobile (BEd: Blasphemer!) as it comes with Symbian OS v9.3 and Apple's Safari browser pre-installed. Until the L870, the mobile-ready Safari browser was only available on the iPhone so it's interesting to see Apple sharing its toys. If it can't get too many people to run Safari on Windows, Apple can at least try and dominate the mobile browser world. Good plan Steve!

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