Ultra Smart F700 launched by Samsung seems to be the new ‘iPhone Killer’
Yesterday, Samsung Electronics announced the launch of a new mobile phone called the Ultra Smart F700 that very eerily resembles the recently launched Apple iPhone. Ok it’s not that eerily similar, but the newly launched Samsung phone features a full-touch screen display that occupies most of its front face just like the iPhone.
In fact, according to Samsung, the Ultra Smart F700 mobile phone thoroughly compliments the company’s “Ultra” handset portfolio, and will be the fourth member to join Samsung’s “Ultra” family of smart phones.
The Samsung Ultra Smart F700 mobile phone has Internet as well as great media capabilities. The F700 mobile phone features a 2.8-inch 440×240 color display, and a QWERTY key pad that slides out at its base. According to Samsung, the inclusion of such a key pad has mainly been for users who are not yet familiar with a touch-screen-only user interface.
The Samsung Ultra Smart F700 mobile phone measures just 4.1 x 2.9 x 0.6 inches, but when compared with the Apple iPhone, the F700 seems to be slightly thicker.
The Samsung Ultra Smart F700 cell phone also incorporates technology that allows the user to download a digital music track in around 4.4 seconds. The phone supports AAC audio, Real, and variants of MPEG-4 formats including H.264.
A noteworthy feature of the Samsung Ultra Smart F700 mobile phone is its support for 3G networks, and is compatible with 3G WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) besides the conventional GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications).
And that is not it; the Samsung Ultra Smart F700 mobile phone also features a 5-megapixel camera. Here, Samsung definitely has a one-up over Apple’s iPhone, which has a 2-megapixel camera.
It is interesting to know that LG had come out with a touch-screen mobile phone known as the LG Prada phone a while ago. The LG Prada carries a price of a whooping $770. Apple’s iPhone comes at a lower price of $499 for the lower end model, whereas the higher end model costs $599. No word on the price of the Samsung Ultra Smart F700 mobile phone.
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February 10th, 2007 at 11:13 am
What this resembles most is a VX-6700 right down to the way the keyboard slides out, and some of quite familiar with touchscreen technology STILL prefer keyboards for “serious” text input (even if it does perpetuate the restrictive QWERTY layout - why not “modernize” with a Dvorak layout since thumb typing is an all-new habit to acquire?)
March 8th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
THIS PHONE IS HOT.COULD I UPGRADE A SAMSUNG G600 TO THIS F700