At the recent Symbian Smartphone Show, London, UK, Samsung Electronics announced two new GPSenabled smart phones – the SGH-i550 and SGH-i560. The GPS navigation functionality will include turn-by-turn voice guidance and will have a pedestrian mode. A navigation trackball located above the keypad should prove useful with GPS applications.

The i550 has a Symbian v9.2 operating system and is based on S60 (edition 3, feature pack 1) providing a platform to integrate applications from the vast Symbian S60 applications library.

Other features of the SGH-i550 are:

• 2.6 inch LCD display
• 3.6Mbps HSDPA
• 3.2 megapixel camera + flash
• 128MB RAM
• 150MB internal memory
• FM radio
• microSD card slot

The Samsung i560 has a very similar specification to the i550 however, it is easily distinguished by it’s slider design for the keypad which gives it a smaller form factor.

The i550 and i560 are the first GPS enabled smart phones to be launched by Samsung. It is a good time to make this move as there are many market forces pushing the development and proliferation of GPS enabled and Internet connected mobile devices able to access Location Based Services.

Both the Samsung SGH-i550 and SGH-i560 GPS Enabled Smart Phones are expected to be available by the end of the year.

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