Samsung F700 (SGH-F700 / Ultra Smart
F700) Preview
Discontinued 10th February 2007
The Samsung F700 will be officially
announced at next week's 3GSM World Congress, but Samsung
have given us a brief glimpse of the specifications
of this upcoming device in advance.
It's an HSDPA capable 3.5G smartphone,
with download speeds of up to 7.2Mbps (where supported),
plus UMTS (3G), EDGE and GPRS, but the Samsung F700
does not appear to support WiFi.
The SGH-F700's landscape/portrait mode
and slide-out QWERTY keyboard are reminiscent of HTC
devices such as the TyTN,
but it is quite rare to see other manufacturers with
this type of form factor. The Samsung F700 has a 2.8"
440x240 pixel display which is slightly better than
most competing smartphones which have just 320x240 pixels.
However, it still can't compete with the 800x480 pixel
display in the Nokia
N800. The screen is touch-sensitive, which explains
the lack of external controls (apart from the keyboard,
of course).
On
the back of the SGH-F700 is a digital camera with a
whopping 5 megapixels with autofocus and flash, with
a secondary camera on the front for making video calls.
This makes it one of the highest resolution cameras
to be announced for the general worldwide market so
far. One other unusual feature is vibrating feedback
through the QWERTY keyboard, using Samsung's VibeTonz
technology.
Samsung haven't said which operating
system the SGH-F700 uses. Normally, we'd expect a device
of this type to be running a version of Windows, but
Samsung's custom drag-and-drop user interface would
seem to indicate that it is something else. Samsung
have been shipping Linux smartphones in China for a
while, so perhaps the F700 is a Linux device. There's
a full set of multimedia software, a web browser, email
client and a document viewer too.
Although Samsung haven't specified how
much the F700 weighs, they have specified its size as
a fairly compact 104 x 50 x 16mm. Underneath is a tri-band
GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz and UMTS 2100 MHz device with
GPRS, EDGE and HSDPA data support. The F700 also comes
with Bluetooth and a microSD memory slot.
Pricing and availability of the SGH-F700
are not known at present.
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Samsung
F700 (SGH-F700) Provisional Specifications
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Available:
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2007
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Network:
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GSM
900/1800/1900 + UMTS 2100
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Data:
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GPRS
+ EDGE + UMTS + HSDPA
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Screen:
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440x240
pixels, 262k colours
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Camera:
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5
megapixels (main)
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Size:
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Compact
PDA-style device 104
x 50 x 16mm / weight tbc
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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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Not
specified
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Polyphonic:
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Yes
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Java:
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Not
specified
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Battery
life:
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Not
specified
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