We are going to see a avalanche of new mobile toys this year. Thanks to the iPhone for that!
Samsung is one of many tech companies that are not going to let Apple’s iPhone take the lead in the new generation of mobile phones. The new touchscreen based phone from Samsung is probably more business oriented than the iPhone but his HSDPA capability and 5 mega-pixel camera wil make the phone a real wireless multimedia device.
Here are the details of Samsung’s announcement:
Samsung today announced the introduction of Ultra Smart F700. This mobile phone will be showcased at 3GSM World Congress.
The Ultra Smart is a part of Samsung’s Ultra portfolio which boasts a full touch screen as well as QWERTY key pad. It reflects the recent trend in telecommunications industry of touch screen user interface and, for users who are not yet familiar with a touch-screen-only user interface, it also implements a QWERTY key pad and VibeTonz technology which allows them to feel the buttons accompanied by responsive vibrations.
More details and pictures after the jump.
A “Drag and drop” method of touch screen was adopted for easier menu navigation along with music play list control for an expanded multimedia experience. Volume, play lists, brightness of screens as well as other menu control can be controlled utilizing the touch screen.
As speed is becoming crucial for data communications, Samsung has included the latest trends in mobile to the Ultra Smart F700. The Ultra Smart reflects the latest speed of 7.2 Mbps under the High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) network. Once the 7.2 Mbps HSDPA network completely deployed, F700 users can download an mp3 song (about 4MB each) in 4.4 seconds. A full HTML browser along with the QWERTY key pad enables easy access to the internet for e-mail and data services.
Using the new F700, business and creative professionals are able to view content on a stunning 2.78" color display.
The device features first class entertainment with a top-of-the-line 5 mega-pixel camera with auto focus and Bluetooth. With 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, it makes it easier to watch videos, listen to songs, share high-quality photos, or catch up on email on the move.
February 8th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
This phone looks great! But it will never have the coolness of the iPhone.
Does it have multi-touch?
February 10th, 2007 at 1:02 am
samsung will never compair to apple. lol
April 24th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
iPhone is not a phone and should be called, iShit
May 12th, 2007 at 12:25 am
well you should all also the new blackberry phones with sprint.
May 26th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
re: greg
How does samsung not compare to apple? Samsung controls a major part of the phone market, especially in tech heavy asian countries. They have relaeased a multitude of media players, debuting things such as portable video before the ipod ever did. They also produce many of the microchips used in most devices, such as low voltage processors and most importantly, flash based storage. Apple doesn’t even compete in half the markets samsung does, and only has it’s image to rely on once put under the microscope. This F700 will likely beat out the iPhone in niche upper markets when released.
May 28th, 2007 at 1:29 am
I will purchase an iPhone. It is cool.
Here are a few feature requests we would like to see added to the iPhone at some point:
* 3G. not that it is available in my area, but some day it will be!
* The iPod application includes a handy volume control slider, but does not appear to include a method for changing the playing location of the current audio track (rewind/fast-forward/jump to point). This feature does appear in the video player.
* Flash videos supported: At present, iPhone seems only supports mp4, h.264, mp3, aac. If it supports Flash files, iPhone will be more popular. Flash is working its way into all of todays popular sites (YouTube, MySpace, Google Talk (web), Yahoo! Messenger (web), etc)
* Third-party software: The list of applications available for Windows Mobile and Palm is huge! I am sure many of the Mac developers out there would love the opportunity to develop/sell applications that run on the iPhone like games, video conversion, DVD to iPhone software http://www.dvdtoiphone.net/ , music data recovery, media editor, etc.
* GPS with integration into Google Maps
May 31st, 2007 at 12:16 am
I don’t think samsung F700 will beat apple iPhone.
June 16th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Apple could release a toilet called the iToilet and the Apple fanatics would drool and insist they have never coveted anything as much as the iToilet and would insist it flushed faster, stayed cleaner longer, and felt better than any competitor. Apple would have ads showing 2001 astronauts floating through space on a couple of iToilets just to stir up the media frenzy.
I will wait and see if it is the Second Coming…
June 17th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
There are lots of mobile phones right now which are still better than the iPHONE
But yet, I will buy an iPhone. I am not an apple freak, but i dont know why, am gonna buy it.Its the Apple thing, the ever seeing “i” looming upon me.
When i had to choose between more feature rich, more user freindly Creaive Zen Vision M and iPOD 30 GB, i chose the iPOD. I regret it, but then, its the “i” thing again.
Plz dont hate me world…