In January 2015, Kodak introduced its first smartphone Kodak IM5. Shortly thereafter, the company was told that the novelty will appear on the European market at the end of March this year, and the first country to begin its sale will be the United Kingdom.
Features Kodak IM5
Heart Kodak IM5 is a hardware platform Mediatek MT6592 8-core processor clocked at 1.7 GHz. The 5-inch capacitive touchscreen smartphone has a resolution of 1280×720 pixels. RAM size is limited to 1 GB device. Built-in memory shows storage capacity of 8 GB with the possibility of extension to 32 GB memory cards format microSD. On the back of the Kodak IM5 is the main 13-megapixel camera with LED flash and on the front you can see the front 5-megapixel camera. Included with the unit is supplied battery capacity of 2100 mAh.
Kodak IM5 favorably with peers using advanced software that allows to edit photos, share them with your friends and print them on your printer. And in addition to the traditional support Google Play Kodak IM5 owners will have access to a single app store with specially selected for his programs.
The smartphone running the operating system Google Android 4.4 KitKat, but Kodak has promised in future to update its firmware to a newer Android 5.0 Lollipop. Although specific software gadget is unlikely to do it quickly enough.
Market sales of Kodak IM5
But for some reason, Kodak had to postpone the start of sales of Kodak IM5. And the smartphone appeared in Europe only today. Moreover, its sales began not with the UK, as the manufacturer had originally planned, and the Netherlands. Grew and the cost of the smartphone. And if in January the manufacturer hopes to sell Kodak IM5 just 229 euros, its real value in the Netherlands was 50 euros higher – 280 euros.
Source: gsmarena
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