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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Member since:2006-09-10
Multi-touch screens have been around for ages, it's not an Apple innovation.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=multi-touch+ui
Member since:2006-04-09
You are getting offtopic but here it goes:
Multitouch is the name Apple gave to its touch screen technology. Nobody is implying that multitouch technology was invented by Apple...
Even my Samsung X830 has a Scroll Wheel (and plays MP3), but it doesn't make it an iPod , now does it? Better yet, even the last iBook generation (mid 2005) had a multitouch trackpad which recognized simultaneous touch points (2 finger scroll for example).
Sharing the same name doesn't mean they share the same philosophy/technology.
Anyway according to the press Apple has filed over 200 patents related to the technology behind the iPhone so the word "innovation" does pop up a lot of times, we'll just have to wait and see.
Having in mind the iPhone is not yet for sale, Samsung will be playing catch the best way they can, thats the way capitalism works. They can't just sit quiet until it comes out. :-)
Edited 2007-02-08 20:01
Member since:2006-05-24
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2006-04-09
Samsung may be making the same mistake everyone did with all their "iPod Killers"... its not just about a "big wide touchscreen" or a "flashy UI". Its much more than that... Multitouch could do for the iPhone what the Scrool Wheel did for the iPod, only time will tell... and I recall Steve Jobs saying "and boy have we patented it !".
Also any mobile phone requires approval from the corresponding authorities before it can be made available to the public, not to mention the prototype needs to reach the operators and content developers (like Glu Mobile, Gameloft, EA, Dchoc, etc.) long before it is released to the public so no, don't expect Samsung to release a phone 'tomorrow'.
Edited 2007-02-08 09:52