Samsung has decided to launch its next iteration of an Android phone in the UK finally - under the guise of the Samsung Galaxy Portal i5700.
Many readers will recognise this phone as the Spica/Galaxy Lite, which was announced for other European markets in November 2009.
However, for reasons best known to Samsung, the phone was held back from the UK market until now, and will be re-branded as the Portal.
The phone is running the Android 1.5, one of the oldest versions of the OS at the moment, and has a capacitive 3.2-inch HVGA screen.
Like the phone we brought you news of a couple of months back, there's a 3.5mm headphone jack, advanced audio technology in the shape of DNSe 2.0 and an 800MHz processor.
Jet-a-like
In reality, it's similar to the Samsung Jet but with Android instead of the company's proprietary OS, which bodes well given the stellar sales of that phone.
This is the second Android phone from Samsung in the UK, with the original Galaxy i7500 only garnering mixed reviews when it launched last year, with battery issues plaguing the device, so Samsung will be looking to improve on that device quickly with this cheaper effort.
The Galaxy Portal was bizarrely released in the UK on T-Mobile on 12 January and in the shops on the 18 January, but Samsung has decided to wait until today to actually make the announcement.
T-Mobile will have the phone for one month (which means there must be only two and a half weeks of that deal left) starting at £18 per month with a free phone on an 18-month contract.
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