Samsung S5600

Samsung S5600 (also known as Samsung Preston or Samsung Player Star (in France)) was announced in March 2009 and released in June 2009 as part of a range of touch-screen phones being released by Samsung.[1]

Samsung S5600 Preston
ManufacturerSamsung Mobile
SeriesS-Series
Compatible networksGSM 850/900/1800/1900/2100
3G 900/2100
Availability by regionOctober 2009
SuccessorSamsung Monte (S5620), Samsung S5600v
RelatedJet, Tocco Lite, Marvel
Form factorCandybar
Dimensions102.8 x 54.8 x 12.9 mm
Mass96g
Operating systemTouchWiz
Storage80MB
Removable storagemicroSD up to 16GB (microSDHC compatible)
BatteryLi-lon 1000mAh
Display240 x 320 pixels 16M colors
(TFT capacitive touchscreen)
External display2.8 inches
MediaMP3/WMA/AAC/H.263/H.264/WMV/MP4
Rear camera3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, LED flash
ConnectivityHSDPA 7.2 Mbps, Bluetooth 2.1 and USB 2.0

The phone has a 2.8 inches (7.1 cm) (240 x 320 pixels) QVGA full-touch screen, and OS TouchWiz User Interface and "Gesture Lock" feature. A 3.2 megapixel camera, music recognition via the use of Shazam's "Find Music" service, and multi-codec support including H.263, MPEG4 (mp4), and WMV. The connectivity for Internet is 7.2 Mbit/s HSDPA.

Language support

The phone was the first phone to support the Welsh Language and it followed an earlier experiment by the Samsung company who released a phone that supported the Irish language. The phone has a Welsh menu and a predictive text facility that calls on a database of 44,000 words in Welsh.[2] The phone was offered just in Orange shops in Wales in 2009.[3]

References

  1. Samsung 5600 Archived 2017-03-08 at the Wayback Machine, Samsung Mobile
  2. "World's first Welsh language mobile phone". Welsh Language Board. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
  3. Orange to offer Welsh language 5600, Pocket-Lint, August 2009, accessed March 2012
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