The Samsung Epic 4G Galaxy Slider will be hot material on Sprint in the coming months. Check it out in our video preview.
While Palm returned to the drawing board, it turned out Sprint was hard at work preparing for bigger things to come in 2010. It probably can't get any bigger than the Samsung Epic 4G this year, so if you're looking to get a new Sprint smartphone, this upcoming Galaxy Slider should be on your list of considerations. Sprint's Michelle Leff Mermelstein gives us a walkthrough of the Samsung Epic 4G in the video below, including a very nice demo of some of the smartphone's Social Hub capabilities:
Samsung Epic 4G is second Mobile WiMAX installment
The Samsung Epic 4G will join the HTC EVO 4G as the second smartphone equipped with Mobile WiMAX connectivity. With such connectivity, Sprint users living in Mobile WiMAX supported areas, can for instance make phone calls while using their data connection. Other features include downloading movies over-the-air as well as making true video calls with the phone's front-facing VGA camera.
If you liked the original Samsung Galaxy S announced earlier this year, you'll most certainly like the Samsung Epic 4G. It's pretty much the same smartphone, plus the addition of a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and Mobile WiMAX connectivity. What else can you ask for?
Though being powered by Android 2.1 at this week's announcement event, the Samsung Epic 4G will be upgradeable to Android 2.2. This will for instance let you store Android apps on the phone's included 16GB microSD card. It'll also enable you to download the upcoming Flash 10.1 plug-in for the Android browser, for instance letting you see Web pages with Flash content as they were originally created.
Samsung Epic 4G specifications
The Samsung Epic 4G sports a 4-inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with a WVGA resolution (800 by 480 pixels). There's also a 1GHz Hummingbird processor with an integrated PowerVR SGX540 GPU, Wi-Fi Wireless-N and Stereo Bluetooth connectivity, as well as a six-axis motion sensor for improved gaming control and similar activities.
The Samsung Epic 4G also packs a range of other key features, such as a 5-megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording and Power LED flash, DLNA support for streaming content to other DLNA enabled equipment such as HDTVs, as well as a 3.5mm audio jack.
Samsung has also added its new Social and Media hubs. The Media Hub will provide a full library of video and literary content powered by some of the biggest names in entertainment when it becomes available. The Social Hub, on the other hand, will from day one aim to make sure that the Samsung Epic 4G integrates all of your social networking services, messages, personal and private e-mail, calendars and contacts in one view with two-way synchronization.
Additional features include a range of Google services (Google Search, Google Maps, Google Talk, Gmail, YouTube and Google Calendar sync) as well as EV-DO/Mobile WiMAX mobile hotspot capability (connects up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices)
More than 65,000 downloadable applications, games and widgets are also available through Android Market.
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