Samsung today announced the Galaxy Pro Smartphone, which is featuring Samsung's integrated Social Hub Premium and dual-input control via a touch-screen and full QWERTY keyboard. The Samsung Social Hub Premium gives one-touch access to emails, instant messages and social networking accounts and benefits from the speed and control of the Galaxy Pro?s dual-input interface. Powered by the Android 2.2 'Froyo' platform, the Galaxy Pro has access to apps and services from Android Market.

Samsung Social Hub Premium brings together email, SNS and IM accounts to a single inbox, for simplified access to all communications. Twitter feeds and Facebook updates, work and personal emails and text messages are collated in one central contact list. Furthermore, the Galaxy Pro is equipped with the "Think Free" Office Document Editor, for viewing and editing MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents on-the-move.

The Samsung Galaxy Pro's dual-input is a combination of a touch-screen and QWERTY keyboard for accurate typing, the QWERTY keyboard provides desktop-computing accuracy, while the touch-screen offers fast fingertip control.

The Samsung Galaxy Pro is equipped with a 3.0 Megapixel camera for still image or video capture. Pictures can be viewed on the 2.8" display before being uploaded online, supported by WiFi and Bluetooth capability.

The Samsung Galaxy Pro will be available during the second quarter in the UK market followed by other European countries, Middle East, South East Asia and India.



Specifications

Network: HSDPA 7.2Mbps 900 / 2100 EDGE / GPRS 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 OS: Android 2.2 Froyo

Display: 2.8" LQVGA (320 x 240) TFT-LCD

Processor: 800MHz Processor

Camera: Main (Rear): 3.0 Mega Pixel Camera AF Single Shot, Beauty Shot, Panorama Shot, Smile Shot, Action Shot

Video: Codec : MPEG4/ H.264 / H.263 / WMV / RV / DivX / Xvid
Playback: WVGA @30fps
Recording: QVGA @ 30fps

Audio: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, RA 3.5mm Ear Jack & Speaker, Stereo FM Radio with RDS, Voice Recorder

Enterprise solutions: Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync ThinkFree Editor

Features: Android Market, Social Hub, Integrated Contacts, Integrated Calendar, Unified Inbox,SNS push notification, Push Email & Push IM, Samsung TouchWiz, Adobe Flash 10.1 support, Android Brower, RSS Reader, Google Maps with Latitude, Places, Navigation (beta), A-GPS

Connectivity: Bluetooth technology v 2.1, USB 2.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 (b / g / n)

Sensor: Accelerometer, Light, Digital Compass, Proximity

Memory: 512MB + 2GB inbox + microSD (up to 32GB)

Size: 66.7 x 108.6 x 10.65mm, 103.4g

Battery: 1350mAh
Talk Time : up to 11 hours
Standby Time : up to 620 hours