Samsung F700 review

What’s with all the touching?

These days the touch screen phone is more like the norm rather than the “ooh, wow is that a touch screen” phenomenon.

I remember the good old days when just having a huge brick of a mobile was the wow factor. And all you could do then were basically call and text someone and perhaps a mono-game or two. Kind of like years ago on the PC. And how has that changed hey.

But I digress. The touch screen phone phenomenon is exactly that… a phenomenon. Everyone that can is clamouring to bring forward the ultimate touch screen phone.
There’s the Samsung Glyde and OMNIA, the HTC range, the iPhone from Apple and even Blackberry’s released a touch screen phone.

So of course I had to get on the whole touch screen bandwagon and got myself a Samsung F700. And all I can say is what an awesome phone. Maybe I’m biased because it’s my first TSP (Touch Screen Phone)

I love the browsing (full HTML browser). It has a nice 5 megapixel camera (because these days a phone isn’t a phone without a camera right?)

It has a large screen (2.78 inches - 440 x 240 pixels) not as large as the 3.5 inch iPhone but hey it’s good enough I say. It has the usual MP3 and MPEG compatibility, along with Java games, onboard memory as well as expanded microSD capability, Bluetooth, 3G HSDPA and the expected mobile features these days.

The VibeTonz feature is the coolest thing. Little vibrations based on touch screen selections or scrolling etc. It’s hard to describe so I’ll just say two words that have stuck with me… “touch sensation”.

The battery life isn’t as bad as I expected from a TSP and it’s quite comfy in my pocket so an all round winner in my book.

The sad thing about it though is that not too long ago I had an unfortunate accident and dropped my awesome TSP. I was devastated. Heartbroken even. But then I picked it up and it worked perfectly. And although now it has many cracks spreading across the screen it still works like a charm. It’s sort of like driving your car with a whole bunch of cracks spread across your windscreen. The screen may be a mess, but the engine still runs.

I guess I’ll just hold out until I can get my hands on the new Samsung OMNIA or perhaps even the iPhone 3G… but then again I’m note sure if I will be able to handle a mobile like the iPhone… I mean it’s only got a 2 megapixel camera!