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Published on: 12 July, 2008 by PhoneArena Team

Samsung's i8510 Primera is a super phone

Keep in mind that the information in this article is not official.

Forgive us if we miss a feature or two here, but the Primera is so jam-packed that it will be the most feature-rich phone ever. It starts with the 8-megapixel, autofocus camera with LED (strangely it is not Xenon) flash. The phone runs off the latest S60 platform, navigated via the optical mouse also found on the OMNIA. It features 128MB of RAM, 16GB of internal NAND memory with microSDHC expansion and has 3G HSDPA 7.2Mbps, Wi-Fi, GPS (with aGPS) and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity. It is DLNA certified, and supports DivX, TV out and has a dedicated 3D graphics accelerator. On the audio front, the Primera offers a 3.5mm headset jack and stereo speakers, and for the first time ever on a mobile phone, there is support for 5.1 surround sound. The camcorder records in QVGA quality at up to 120fps for slow motion video. The screen is 2.8" with 16m colors, though it's not clear what the resolution will be. One report says QVGA, but with all the other features that doesn't seem right and we'd hope to see a VGA panel. At 106.5mm×53.9mm×16.9mm the Primera is a bit on the thick side, but with all those features, 17mm is pretty impressive. It is rumored to be announced mid-August, carrying an astounding €789 ($1240) pricetag!

sources: Symbian Freak and GSM Arena

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anonymous @ 12 July, 2008 03:58:18 PM

hmmm samsungs answer to the N96??

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anonymous @ 13 July, 2008 02:11:27 PM

No...Samsung's answer to Nokia's 8MP phone due later this year

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anonymous @ 31 July, 2008 02:10:46 PM

your both wrong samsungs answer to my shit omnia is way better

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anonymous @ 12 July, 2008 04:09:31 PM

^ The samsung phones in Korea don't support DIVX?

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anonymous @ 14 July, 2008 06:30:09 AM

in Korea doesn't support DIVX. not only Samsung but LG... all cellphone does't support divx... T.T

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tictac @ 24 July, 2008 05:52:32 AM

well, my Omnia from Samsung does - all I had to do was to register the s/w.

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anonymous @ 12 July, 2008 04:52:06 PM

Wow steep pricetag but it looks like a pretty awesome phone...too bad it's not here in the US

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anonymous @ 12 July, 2008 05:34:50 PM

^ Be Nice lol

Looks super cool, Samsung does good with design. Hefty price tag but then again instead of a 8mp cam (200[?]) ipod (250) internet tablet etc. all in one I guess it would even out?

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Ruben @ 12 July, 2008 06:47:30 PM

And the optical zoom?

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rj04 @ 12 July, 2008 08:53:57 PM

That looks like an led flash, doesn't it? Also, 17mm is not thick at all for this feature set.

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anonymous @ 12 July, 2008 09:34:39 PM

not at all, but compared to other handsets on the market its husky.

one of those links says xenon, the other says led. perhaps thats why they went with "xenon (?)" in the article

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Demy @ 12 July, 2008 09:37:24 PM

very great phone!!!... with heavy price..hehehe

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anonymous @ 12 July, 2008 10:25:24 PM

actually docomo sh905 is the first cellphone to have dolby 5.1 surround sound.

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rj04 @ 12 July, 2008 10:33:52 PM

I don't think they consider any of the docomo phones when writing reviews. They have hi-def screens and we have QuarterVGA, no comparison. It will have to be a xenon flash if they expect me or any other camera phone junky to lay down that kind of cash for it. Also, the slow-mo video is great for a golf swing or birds flying but if it can't do VGA quality at 30fps like my N82 then the video is worthless, imo.

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anonymous @ 13 July, 2008 02:55:46 AM

this phone is going to be able to record VGA 30 fps if is capable to record QVGA 120fps because the power needed to process 120 fps QVGA is equal with 30 fps VGA and i don't know why they wouldn't put VGA video recording in it..this problem has already been discused with the n95 and n82,and they wanted to come out with softwares that would record 120fps QVGA with n82 and n95..even if it's not going to be able to record VGA 30fps this problem is going to be later solved with softwares..

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anonymous @ 13 July, 2008 03:28:29 AM

holy crap that is a lot of dough. i thought they were advertising a digital camera when i saw the pic haha

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C-Chickie @ 13 July, 2008 12:11:34 PM

I know right. You can tell the number one feature they are going to promote on that beautiful camera

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yy @ 13 July, 2008 08:18:38 AM

n96 c905 i8510 ??

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