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Samsung F700 (SGH-F700 / Ultra Smart F700) Preview

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). [Read]