Samsung S5600

For another article with a similar name, see S5600.

Samsung S5600 (also known as Samsung Preston or Samsung Player Star (in France)) was announced in March 2009 and released in June 2009 as part of a range of touch-screen smartphones being released by Samsung.^[1]

Samsung S5600 Preston

Manufacturer	Samsung Mobile
Series	S-Series
Availability by region	October 2009
Successor	Samsung Monte (S5620), Samsung S5600v
Related	Jet, Tocco Lite, Marvel
Compatible networks	GSM 850/900/1800/1900/2100 3G 900/2100
Form factor	Candybar
Dimensions	102.8 x 54.8 x 12.9 mm
Weight	96g
Operating system	TouchWiz
Storage	80 MB
Removable storage	microSD up to 16 GB (microSDHC compatible)
Battery	Li-lon 1000mAh
Rear camera	3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, LED flash
Display	240 x 320 pixels 16M colors (TFT capacitive touchscreen)
External display	2.8 inches
Media	MP3/WMA/AAC/H.263/H.264/WMV/MP4
Connectivity	HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, Bluetooth 2.1 and USB 2.0

The phone has a 2.8 inches (7.1 cm) (240 x 320 pixels) QVGA full-touch screen, and OS TouchWiz User Interface and "Gesture Lock" feature. A 3.2 megapixel camera, music recognition via the use of Shazam's "Find Music" service, and multi-codec support including H.263, MPEG4 (mp4), and WMV. The connectivity for Internet is 7.2 Mbit/s HSDPA.

Language support

The phone was the first phone to support the Welsh Language and it followed an earlier experiment by the Samsung company who released a phone that supported the Irish language. The phone has a Welsh menu and a predictive text facility that calls on a database of 44,000 words in Welsh.^[2] The phone was offered just in Orange shops in Wales in 2009.^[3]