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Samsung i7500 confirmed for O2 UK in August

Wow, two Android scoops in one day!

After playing with, and being impressed by, the HTC Hero earlier today I decided to head to the shops after work on the off chance of finding out some news about the 'missing in action' Samsung i7500.

Today is the first Friday of the month you see - it's when the new mobile catalogues hit the high street and when most stores find out what new handsets they'll be getting to sell.

Like a lot of Android fans I've been waiting to see when the i7500 would hit the UK, so I was pretty excited to find this on page 6 of O2's July catalogue. Talking to the guys in the store they confirmed they're expecting it to be on sale in August.

So O2 will soon have the Android i7500, the iPhone, and if rumours are to be believed, the Palm Pre on offer. Quite an impressive device line up.

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Just when and where will the Android / Samsung i7500 land?

Like a lot of phone geeks at the moment I'm patiently waiting for the Android powered Samsung i7500 (or Galaxy) to be let loose.

I've passed on the iPhone 3GS. This year was the first 'iPhone day' that didn't find me patiently queuing outside of an O2 store. You should realise that's a real sign of my commitment to the iPhone cause given that during those two years I was actually a Vodafone employee...

But now I'm going Android. I've always been a fan of the Android platform. I was excited when it was announced, I was impressed when I first saw it demo'd at Google's UK Developer Day last year and now the Samsung i7500 looks like it will deliver the hardware to match the promise of the Android OS. The HTC Magic came close, but the i7500 is 'the one'.

Except for one thing - no one seems to know who's going to sell it or when it will be available - in the UK at least.

I've asked friends at Vodafone and O2... no-ones heard mention of it. Having worked for an operator I know that you usually hear internal rumblings of big device announcements about 4 to 6 weeks before launch. Big 'hero handset' launches always generate noise, so if no one is hearing any I think this leaves only two possibilities: 1) The i7500 is not due for launch in the UK till around end of August / early September or 2) (even worse in my book) either Orange or T Mobile will be the UK operator for the i7500.

It's only a few days now till the summer retail catalogues hit Carphone Warehouse, Vodafone, O2, Orange and T Mobile stores up and down the country, hopefully we'll get some news then and I'll be proved wrong.

In the meantime I've found these 3 reviews (all with proper, non photoshoped marketing, pictures) of the i7500 in all it's glory:

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Just when and where will the Android / Samsung i7500 land?