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Rumour: Rogers to launch Samsung Galaxy Spica?

By John Connors on March 1, 2010 in Asides, Mobile News, Rogers Wireless News, Various News

We’ve been tipped that Rogers is prepping to release the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy in about 2-3 weeks. No word on price points yet but this touchscreen is currently available at Bell for $49.95 on a 3-year. So if this rumour is true you can’t expect Rogers to release it for much more.

The Galaxy is currently the thinnest Android that’s available in Canada and measures 116 x 56 x 11.9mm with a weight of 116.7 grams. Other specs of the Galaxy are that it runs OS 1.5, has a3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, comes with 8GB of memory and can hold up to 40GB with a microSD card. In addition, a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus, LED flash and video capabilities, 3.5 mm headphone jack and WiFi.

UPDATE: According to RogersGuy in our comments states: “This is confirmed. We received a white dummy unit today in our store. Officially named the Samsung Galaxy Spica. 3.2″ 320×480 TFT display, only 183mb of internal memory, WIFI and GPS”

More soon!    (Thanks tipster!)

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15 comments for “Rumour: Rogers to launch Samsung Galaxy Spica?”

  1. Oh wow, did Rogers even hear about the dozens of Android phones that were made waaaaaaay after this was released?

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    Posted by Ahmed Eltawil | March 1, 2010, 5:12 pm
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  2. WTF!!! WHY NOT THE DROID OR HERO OR AT LEAST THE CLIQ?

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    Posted by Frank yu | March 1, 2010, 5:32 pm
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  3. WTF!!! WHY NOT THE DROID OR HERO OR AT LEAST THE CLIQ?

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    Posted by Frank yu | March 1, 2010, 5:32 pm
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  4. This is confirmed. We received a white dummy unit today in our store. Officially named the Samsung Galaxy Spica. 3.2″ 320×480 TFT display, only 183mb of internal memory, WIFI and GPS. I’d guess pretty cheap based on specs.

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    Posted by RogersGuy | March 1, 2010, 6:15 pm
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  5. NOOOO! please don’t release the worst Android phone ever created by any manufacturer.
    This device is the first Android phone released by Samsung (June 2009) and it’s not a good one…

    The others Android devices made by Samsung are much better…

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    Posted by Mathieu | March 1, 2010, 6:19 pm
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  6. Rogers continues to fail to bring worthwhile Android phones to the Canadian market.

    HTC Desire and HTC Legend Rogers! Common get it right!

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    Posted by Sined | March 1, 2010, 7:30 pm
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  7. Why do we Canadians keep getting these crappy 1.5/1.6 320×480 phones. Why can’t we get a current gen Android 2.0/2.1 480×800 phone!

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    Posted by Erik Berkun-Drevnig | March 1, 2010, 7:54 pm
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  8. Hey Erik if it is Galaxy Spica they are going to update with the Eclair version. Also u can fnd the unofficial release of eclair for Galaxy Spica here : http://www.greaky.com/2010/02/samsung-i5700-galaxy-spica-android-21.html

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    Posted by Mak | March 1, 2010, 10:37 pm
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  9. who cares if it’s getting an update to 2.1….. it’s still a substandard phone by any count. They should be offering this thing for $0.00 for entry level users.

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    Posted by Braden Klassen | March 1, 2010, 11:34 pm
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  10. i work at futureshop we received our demo kit a week ago,

    cant wait looks like another nice addition to android in canada!

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    Posted by clayton schinbein | March 2, 2010, 12:10 am
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  11. We revived our neon green promo box with a pair of white dummy handsets and a bunch of the phones propaganda at our store mid last week. Rogers lables all over the handsets. I’d sure call this confirmed unless Rogers was pulling an early April fools joke, …like the LG Pop….

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    Posted by Chance | March 2, 2010, 12:18 am
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  12. way to go rogers! we love the underdog phones

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    Posted by Cam Hunt | March 2, 2010, 5:38 am
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  13. why is everyone hating on this phone, i have a galaxy on bell and love it very fast never lags, nice screen, good battery.

    for the people saying it sucks have you ever used it? and for more then 2 minutes at a store, i love it i think its amazing.

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    Posted by clay | March 2, 2010, 11:15 am
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  14. i live in the uk and i had a lg arena km900 it was slow and unresposive/shut down and restarted/memory full/couldnt answer calls/battery lasterd 6 hours..i had the lg arena for 6 months with these problems and i had it fixed 4 times then replace with another lg arena and still had problems so t mobile change it to a samsung galaxy spica and it blows the lg arena away every thing on the phone works brilliant and the battery lasts.. this is one of the best phones ive evr had so dont knok it if you havnt tryed it and testerd it

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    Posted by got-petrol | March 2, 2010, 5:23 pm
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  15. I got my galaxy spica as a gift. Rooted it to 2.1. Its light weight, excellent on battery consumption, and fast! I miss having a physical qwertyand no back lighting for the buttond but overall, i love my phone. The haters are hating it too much you’d think the phone did them a personal wrong. Emotional reactions are always subjective, biased, and often misinformed. Give this phone a fair chance. You may just be surprised. I was. Peace! :-)

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    Posted by chris | April 5, 2010, 10:16 pm
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