Samsung Gets Touchy With F490
The Samsung F490 full touch screen interface phone is out and about. It’s a tri-band 2G phone and offers 3G HSDPA data service. The touch screen is a TFT number that sports 256K colours, and does it ever look nice.
The F490 isn’t exactly a surprise. Pictures of it were leaked in December, so we all knew it was coming. The real deal features a 5 MP camera with flash and a secondary video camera for making video phone calls. The F490 gives you something to do with all of your cool Bluetooth gear, and the OS supports email, SMS, EMS, MMS and Instant messaging.
You can download polyphonic MP3 ringtones, and for those times you don’t want to share your audio, the F490 has a built-in 3.5-mm headphone jack. It’s pre-loaded with Google Search, the Picsel document viewer, an organiser, and it will do hands-free if you need it to.
The F490 comes nice but it doesn’t come cheap. Expect to leave the man behind the counter a €550 tip if you want to walk out with one of these. For a look at all of Samsung’s line, stop by TestFreaks.