Samsung F300 (SGH-F300 / Ultra Music)
Discontinued 11th December 2006
The Samsung F300 is one of three new
"Ultra Edition" phones - this one dubbed the
"Samsung Ultra Music".
What makes the Samsung F300 so special
is something that we can't show you.. because Samsung's
press office have only supplied a picture of one
side of the SGH-F300. Here's the clever thing: on one
side of the F300 is a "music player" interface
with a large screen and multidirectional pad.. on the
other side is a conventional numeric keypad plus
a much smaller screen. It's the first time we've ever
seen this on a mobile phone, and it's just such a darned
shame we can't show it to you. This arrangement is also
found on the Samsung
F500.
We'll call the numeric keypad side of
the Samsung SGH-F300 the "phone side" and
the side with the large screen the "multimedia
side" just to be clear. The multimedia side features
a large 2.1" 176x220 pixel display in 262,000 colours.
Underneath that is a multiway navigation key that illuminates
a little like the Samsung
E900. Samsung say that the F300's multimedia control
"makes navigation very intuitive".
Flip
the Samsung F300 over to the phone side, and there's
a two megapixel digital camera. Of course, with the
numeric keypad on the same side, people who you photograph
are going to wonder just what the heck you are doing.
But the arrangement is still really, really cool.
Internal memory is 100Mb, and this can
be expanded using microSD cards to a maximum of 2Gb.
The F300's media player is pretty comprehensive, with
support for MP3, AAC and WMA audio formats plus
the SGH-F300 supports MPEG4 and H.263 video types. There's
also an FM radio built in.
Of course, the Samsung SGH-F300 is a
Bluetooth handset - in this case the F300 supports stereo
Bluetooth 2.0. There's also a USB 2.0 interface so that
you can connect the F300 to a PC.
Underneath it all, the Samsung SGH-F300 is
a tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 device with GPRS and EDGE
data (but no 3G). Physical measurements are 104 x 44
x 9.4mm, although the weight in not known.
Samsung haven't said exactly when the
SGH-F300 will come out, nor how much it will cost. But
whenever it does, the novel dual-face design and slim
form factor will give it plenty of "wow" factor.
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Samsung
F300 (SGH-F300 / Ultra Music)
at a glance
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Available:
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2006
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Network:
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GSM
800/1800/1900
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Data:
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GPRS
+ EDGE
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Screen:
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176x220
pixels, 262k colours (main)
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Camera:
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2
megapixels
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Size:
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Medium
candy bar 104x44x9mm
/ weight unknown
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Bluetooth:
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Yes
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Memory
card:
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microSD
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Infra-red:
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No
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Polyphonic:
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Yes
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Java:
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Yes
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Battery
life:
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Not
specified
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