Samsung i7110 - the good path

Hardware, operating system, data transfer

The handset has the Symbian 9.3 OS with the Series 60 user interface, Feature Pack 2 – for our users who are not that good with such things, I’d note that this is the same operating system that runs on Nokia N96 and Samsung Innov8 too. According to unofficial sources, the handset has a 330 MHz MSM6260 / OMAP2430 chip, which is based on ARM11 that has hardware 3D acceleration, just like Innov8 or N82. This will be required by the eye-candy effects of Feature Pack 2. During everyday use the handset is just as fast as Innov8, so it’s much faster than N79, which has a 369 MHz CPU, but no acceleration. The internal memory has a size of 50 MB, which would be okay, but i7110 has no high-capacity flash storage. The reason is simple: Innov8 has to remain the flagship model.

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We’ve benchmarked the speed of the phone with two applications that are quite outdated by now, JBenchmark 1 and 2. These weren’t designed for handsets with Feature Pack 2, so devices with an earlier OS (like N95) get much better scores, but since we’ve published the results at Innov8 and N96 as well, we’ll do it now too. It’s important to note, that these results should not be compared with the ones of older handsets (N95, G810), as those have an older operating system, which requires less resources, so JBenchmark yields better scores.

The data transfer arsenal is complete. The GSM-module is quad-band (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), we can use GPRS, EDGE, UMTS and 3.6 megabit HSDPA for transferring data on the mobile phone network. There is 802.11b/g WiFi support, stereo Bluetooth 2.0, a GPS receiver with A-GPS (complying with the NMEA 0183 standard), an FM radio and FM transmitter that can transmit between 87.6 and 107.9 MHz. I’d like to make it clear what does this do, for those who have never heard of it. It’s a rather frequent problem that one would like to listen to music on his or her phone while in the car, but the car radio doesn’t have a line in connector, so this makes things quite hard. This is why the FM transmitter has been invented, which broadcasts sounds (including music and voice) on a preset frequency. Due to its design, it has a medium quality and short range (max. 5 meters), so it can stay legal, as in Europe (with the exception of the United Kingdom) one can use an FM transmitter with a maximum performance of 500 mW. If you’d like to know more about this topic, check out this.

i7110’s FM transmitter uses the handset’s internal antenna, it won’t work if a headset is plugged in. It has a very short range, for example another phone can receive the signal only if it’s right near the Samsung. We’ll hear some cracks even in the best case scenario, but the whole thing probably works better in a car, as a car radio’s antenna is much more sensitive to the signal than a mobile phone’s headset.

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