Yes, we just
recently brought you a bunch of live shots of the
F700 from the CeBIT show floor, but when it comes to a device of this caliber, let's be honest: one good gallery deserves another. These ones come from
CTIA; after being given a few brief moments to play with it, we really can't emphasize enough just how flippin' small it is. When we initially saw Samsung's press shots of the device, we got the impression that its dimensions were generous enough to put it head to head with a
Hermes or equivalent -- and to be fair, with HSUPA, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, slide-out QWERTY and a 5 megapixel sensor, that's a reasonable impression to have -- but in reality, the F700 is seriously no bigger than a large candybar dumbphone. We don't want to rag on it too much since we haven't played with a functional device yet, but one potential downside is the keyboard -- the small space bar lies squarely in the middle of the bottom row of letter keys and has its top row placed a little too close to the bottom edge of the device's top half. Unfortunately, the unit we spent time with had no operating system loaded, but the hardware was so gorgeous that we almost --
almost -- didn't care.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
dgbambic @ Mar 30th 2007 1:19PM
i bet it would be hard to get used to typing with the space bar between the bottom row of keys...that's weird.
but that device looks sick!
casey lewis @ Mar 30th 2007 3:01PM
why would it be hard to get used to?? isnt the spacebar on the computer you are using in the middle at the bottom?? seems logical to make a full keyboard actually have the esthetics of a real keyboard....just a thought...
dgbambic @ Mar 30th 2007 3:31PM
no the space bar is below the bottom row of text.
not in the middle of it.
look down.
Brandon @ Mar 30th 2007 4:09PM
Yea, that keyboard is gona take a while to get used to...not very intuitive...
Steven @ Mar 30th 2007 9:00PM
Yea why isn't anyone asking the most important question... battery life???
It doesn't matter how it looks, its about how it functions and how long it lasts. Samsung is known to make good looking phones with limited features (that is if its running Samsung OS).
JAmerican