Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 8th Feb 2007 08:44 UTC
Samsung is following Apple, MS & LG in the trend where cellphones involve "big, wide touchscreens" as their main look and feel. Their Ultrasmart F700 phone has a qwerty keyboard, 2.8" widescreen, 5 MP camera and 3G support. We are not sure at this point if this is a smartphone which allows you to develop and run native applications or if it's just a glorified "feature phone". The whole interface is based on Adobe's Flash while a recent press release along with the claim of "full HTML browsing" makes us speculate that the phone possibly uses the Opera web browser -- possibly on top of Linux.
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The reported screen resolution does not make sense to me. They report a 240x440 resolution in their spec sheet, but when using their own image here under Photoshop to find the ratios of width-X-heihgt: http://images.akihabaranews.com/news_pics/13261/Ultra_Smart_F700_1.... that ratio does not work out as they claim. According to my calculations (ratio) it looks more like a 240x416 screen rather than a 240x440. In fact, the 240x416 would make sense if the phone actually runs Symbian underneath (with a new Flash-based UI) because the original Symbian S60 resolution was 176x208 and also had support for 240x320. Of course, there is the possibility that the pixels are not square, but I don't think that this is the case here. In conclusion, based on their own pictures, I think that the reported 240x440 res is wrong.