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What is Safari doing on a Samsung stainless steel smartphone?

Did you know Samsung makes refrigerators? True, really tech-looking ones you can find in Lowes. Another surprise for you, this Samsung has a Safari browser. Yes, that Safari.

Samsung has been working with Apple to get the browser and it looks like this is going to happen. While the basic S60 browser was pretty good, bringing Apple branded software is an interesting move I suspect we’ll see lots more of. Way to go Samsung.

What’s hot about the new Samsung I870

The uber-slick Samsung I870 has been seen in leaked images and now we get some spec info. What is hot about this phone? Plenty. What is not? This sweet phone looks to be a winner in Europe and Asia potentially but not the US. Awww.

Indeed, the details revealed by Boy Genius show a tri band GMS phone, omitting the 850 GSM and UMTS needed for US connectivity. So we will miss out. The specs found by BGR are:

* Tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900), 2100 UMTS, 3.6Mbs HSDPA connectivity * Symbian 9.3 S60 3.2 OS * 2.3″ 260K color QVGA 240 × 320 pixel display * 3 megapixel rear camera, VGA front camera for video calls * FM radio with RDS * USB 2.0 and Bluetooth 2.0 * microSDHC support