Today, during its IFA press conference in Berlin, Samsung Germany officially announced the previously unveiled SGH-i620 Windows Mobile 6 Standard HSDPA smartphone.
Featuring a slide-out QWERTY (for Germany QWERTZ) keyboard, the i620 is a kind of updated version of the Samsung SGH-i600. Like the i600, the i620 features triband (900/1800/1900 MHz) GSM/GPRS/EDGE and singleband (2100 MHz) UMTS/HSDPA and Bluetooth 2.0. However, it's now confirmed that the i620 hasn't has WiFi built-in.

Further features are touch sensitive function keys around the Jog-Dial (which works like the D-Pad of the Samsung SGH-i300), a 2.0" QVGA TFT screen and an updated 2 megapixel camera in addition to the front facing VGA video telephony camera. With a height of 16 mm only and a weight of 126 g, the Samsung SGH-i620 is available from September in Germany. Further availability wasn't announced so far (except that we already know that Vodafone UK will carry it as well) as well as an estimated retails price wasn't given yet.

Cheers ~ Arne

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What? Again tri-band 2G and single-band 3G only? Come on Samsung, I know you can do it better? Why does Windows Mobile devices gets less love from you? And where the heck was Wi-Fi lost? This sounds like a i607 slider BlackJack!

Any info if there is a i627 is planned as well? Don't need WLAN but the US frequencies! Anyone? Thanx

BlackJack USA wrote:

Any info if there is a i627 is planned as well? Don't need WLAN but the US frequencies! Anyone? Thanx

No information about a US version yet.