Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica, Bringing DivX to Android ~ Android Gallery

South Korea based Samsung has officially announced Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica are speculative rumor mill buzzing on the internet as a Galaxy Lite before posting.

Samsung is entitled to the "Lite" branding as i5700 has better specifications than the earlier Galaxy i7500 smartphone. This is Samsung's second Android phone targeted specifically to European markets (4th in the world). After what seems like a continuous demand in the market, users can now watch DivX movies on the handset, which is the first android to run DivX.

Samsung already made a divx its flagship Omnia HD (8900), Ultra Touch (S8300) and BEAT DJ (M7600) in recognition of its excellent high-quality glossy compression codec that is now a prominent place in the rip HD discs and stored in MKV files for both home and mobile viewing. Not all mobile phones carry features such as DivX and still require certification and licensing for any device to get it playing a codec. Android phone users, however, you can still get a DivX from third-party applications such as vxflash player from MobileSoft.

for the DivX

DivX codec is a brand of technology that allows the relevant balance of high quality MPEG4/Part2 compression algorithm with file sizes that are small enough for archiving or broadcast consumer devices as well as for home and on the road. There are now over 100 million DivX Certified devices from leading consumer electronics brand that is tracking the spread of high-quality high-definition video experience across platforms.

This requires certification and licensing the device to run DivX, but it also figures as one of the many codecs that are commonly used for copying disks in hard drives for transcoding in smaller files.

features at a glance

In addition to being able to run DivX video, its media player can play just about all popular media file you throw at it. Headphone listening can come from either a 3.5mm headphone jack or wirelessly from your Bluetooth A2DP support.

the new I5700 Spica is a quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE on the 2G and dual-band 3G/HSDPA located in touchscreen monoblock body measuring 115 x 57 x 13.2mm weighing 124 g. There is WiFi 802/11 b / g for hotspot surfing and Bluetooth 2.1 for fast wireless data synchronization.

He gets a powerful motor with a proprietary Samsung 800MHz processor, making the i5700 Spica one of the fasted smartphone on Android in the area. Memory is a modest 180 MB which can be expanded to 32 GB microSD card slot.

has a 3.2 "TFT touch screen capacitive supports 16 million colors at 320 x 480 pixels. Like most other touch screen, gravity has an accelerometer for auto rotate viewing orientation based on the slope of the handset. Imaging function is supported by a 3.15 megapixel autofocus camera with geo-tagging of assisted GPS receiver. it does not have any secondary camera despites its 3G video calling capabilities.

Like its heftier i7500 brother, the new device runs on Android v1.5 Cupcake, which is a tad down from the current v2.0 Eclair Android running on Motorola Droid / Milestone. It is a Java-based digital compass, Google Search, Google Maps and tight integration with YouTube and Google Talk. From a generous 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery, Samsung i5700 Galaxy Spica gets up to 11.5 hours talk time and 27 days of standby time on one charge - one of the best amongst touchscreen cell phone.