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Samsung grows stick-phone line
19th June 2007 14:07 GMT
Samsung today extended its family of stick-like music phone, the F series, with a pair of lower cost models designed to broaden the range's appeal as an alternative to cheap Flash-based MP3 players.
Samsung's SGH-F210
First, the SGH-F210, a skinny, 8.8 x 3.1 x 2cm handset with a 1.5in, 128 x 220, 262,144-colour screen and a navigation control on the front, all of which rotates out to reveal the slimline keypad. The F210 has 1GB of on-bord memory, but more can be added by inserting a 2GB Micro SD card - or a less capacious one, but not, Samsung indicated, anything bigger. The handset plays a wide array of formats, adjusting the output with a "3D sound effect" system.
As a phone, the F210 has tri-band GSM/GPRS connectivity, Bluetooth 2.0 and a two-megapixel camera.
Samsung's SGH-F200
Not so the SGH-F200, which surprisingly lacks a snapper on the back. It's fractionally bigger than the F210 - 9 x 3.3 x 2cm, but has the same display and Bluetooth 2.0 with wireless stereo. There's no "3D sound effect", apparently, and only 5MB of on-board memory, though Samsung plans to bundle a 512MB Micro SD card with it. The F210 is also a tri-band GSM/GPRS phone.
Samsung launched the first of its stick phones, the F300, in February this year. Later, it signed Beyonce to promote the product (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/13/beyonce_face_of_f300/).
Samsung didn't say when either the F200 or the F210 would become available.
More F210 and F200 pictures on the next page (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/06/19/sams_stick_phones/page2.html)
SGH-F210
SGH-F200
