A real heartbreaker...depends on the price

Sep 14, 2007 09:15 GMT  ·  By

This could actually be IT. Hold your breath, as Samsung might have managed to bring the smartphone with the highest chances of surpassing Apple's iPhone. The F700 phone model brings some impressive specifications and some new live images of it looking stunning.

All the official edited photos obviously did Samsung F700 no favor until now, as the handset looks a lot better in real images. While closed, it looks highly similar to the iPhone, but, then again, most large touchscreen smartphones tend to take on this resemblance.

The great advantage that this specific device has to bring is a full QWERTY keypad that will surely win over those people that find it considerably difficult to get used to using a virtual keyboard. Samsung F700 looks smooth and elegant, mostly due to its small sizes, but incredibly manages to bring most of the high end features that handsets are capable of providing.

There are few 3G enabled phones out there that are capable of providing data transfer speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps and Samsung F700 is one of them. If this is not enough for making it special, the 5 megapixel camera surely will, as it also comes with autofocus, flash and all the features that are supposed to make it come close to the performances of a real digital camera.

Samsung F700 will also come equipped with the award winning Croix interface that is supposed to astound people even more. The only disadvantage that this smartphone might pose when compared to the iPhone is that it has no onboard memory, compared to the 8GB on Apple's phone.

Samsung F700 has been announced by Vodafone as part of its lineup for the end of this year. It should be available starting November, although an exact date for the phone's launch has not been set up to this point.