TD-SCDMA Touchscreen Phone Samsung SGH-i688

Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Amir

Samsung introduces the SGH-i688, a touchscreen mobile phone that supports China’s 3G standard, TD-SCDMA (Time-Division Synchronous Code-Division Multiple Access). With the support for TD-SCDMA, the i688 is able to connect to the Wireless Olympic Works network for real-time schedules, results and other Olympic information.

The Samsung SGH-i688 features a 2.8-inch 260k color touchscreen display, a 3 Megapixel camera, integrated media player, Bluetooth and microSD memory card slot. Other than TD-SCDMA, the i688 supports also tri-band GSM and EDGE.

The phone runs Windows Mobile 6 OS. It is only 14.5mm thick. Another TD-SCDMA phone from Samsung is the SGH-L288.

As an official partner of Olympic, Samsung has released the SGH-i688 phone which supports Time-Division Synchronous Code-Division Multiple Access (or TD-SCDMA) or China’s domestic 3G mobile telecommunications standard and runs on Windows Mobile 6.0, a standard operation system for the device on its class. In addition, the phone can be connect to the Wireless Olympic Works (WOW) network, and it provides realtime schedules, results, weather information, email, and instant messaging to Olympic officials on a 2.8-inch touch screen display. It can recognize Chinese characters drawn on screen, and provides “haptic” vibratory feedback in response to inputs. There is no info about the price so far.

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