Samsung i740: all smartphone, no frills
The rumored i740 slider from Samsung has now been announced, and as expected, it's a 3G-free beast. That's actually pretty cool since it'll do its part toward keeping the sticker shock to an absolute minimum -- around €300 ($469) when it launches in October -- though it's a tougher pill to swallow when you consider that it also lacks WiFi. In other words, buyers should expect to use this Windows Mobile 6.1 bad boy as a slave to ActiveSync with the occasional jaunt over EDGE for email (text only, of course) or Internet Explorer Mobile if you're trying to teach yourself some sort of sick lesson. On the flipside, it'll do GPS and feature a decent 3.2 megapixel cam plus an FM radio. You know, the kind of radio people used before they had 3G to stream it over the 'net.















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
TheGasMan @ Jul 25th 2008 11:23AM
test
primalogix @ Jul 25th 2008 1:02PM
but i luv frills
Jason @ Jul 25th 2008 2:09PM
This may make a nice second phone
Dan @ Jul 26th 2008 9:03PM
I do 80% of my web browsing on edge with my 1g iPhone and it doesn't hurt at all. I get emails with images no problem. Even big pages like engadget still load in 1 minute or less. I don't think you guys should knock edge so much
Rachel @ Jul 27th 2008 3:28PM
"...keeping the sticker shock to an absolute minimum -- around €300 ($469)..."
WTF!!??!!
$469? For no 3G OR wifi? I'm pretty shocked!
iofthestorm @ Jul 27th 2008 11:19PM
Non-contract price, that is.