"Samsung is among the earliest members of the Open Handset Alliance and has been actively moving forward to introduce the most innovative Android mobile phone," said JK Shin, Executive Vice President and Head of Mobile Communication Division in Samsung Electronics. "With Samsung’s accumulated technology leadership in mobile phone industry and our consistent strategy to support every existing operating system, I believe that Samsung provides the better choices and benefits to our consumers"
The Samsung I7500 offers users access to the full suite of Google services, such as Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Calendar, and Google Talk.
The phone features an integrated GPS receiver, thus enabling the use of Google Maps features, such as My Location, Google Latitude, Street View, local search and detailed route description.
The I7500 has an internal memory of 8GB and its external memory can support as much as 32GB. The new Samsung phone will be available in major European countries starting this June.