
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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2005-06-28
Yes, this is exactly what they are all doing, following the trend of technology. They don't copycat, they simply do whatever makes sense at this point in time. I blogged about it a few days ago, explaining the trend:
http://eugenia.blogsome.com/2007/02/02/the-future-is-touchscreen/
As for Opera Mobile (not Mini), it is just fine on a mobile phone. It has NOTHING to do with the UI of the desktop browser version. It is a good mobile browser.