Today at the end of CES 2008 Samsung surprised the crowd by introducing its latest Samsung SGF-F490. It has a 16:9 wide finger touch screen. Screen measures 3.2-inch with 262k colors; design seems similar to its Prada phone. The phone supports full screen browsing in landscape and portrait mode, it has a 5 Mega-pixel camera, 130Mb of internal storage facility with micro SD slot for storage expansion, also supports the standard 3.5mm audio jack, provides faster data connection on the road with the help of HSDPA network support. The camera can record over QVGA mode with 15fps, and can playback at VGA mode with 30fps video.
In addition, features integrated Google search, Samsung's Croix user interface, and A2DP for Bluetooth stereo support.
The Samsung SGH-F490 measures 115mm x 53.5mm x 11.8mm (4.5" x 2.1 x .5") in size and weighs 102g (3.6oz). It supports GSM/EDGE connections on the 900, 1800, and 1900MHz bands, and UMTS/HSDPA networks that use the 2100MHz band.
The phone will be available in selected European markets by the February this year, later will get available to the Asian and American markets, and price expected to be around at 530 Euro.
