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The Hottest Smartphones to Come1. Samsung Ultra Smart F700 This model is designed to runaway iPhone as it is coming in May 2007. This is a touch-screen, QWERTY smartphone featuring super-high-speed networking and a 5-megapixel camera. Ultra Smart F700 features a simple touch screen display and a single button seated below the screen which makes it alike Apple's iPhone. This smartphone joins the Ultra Music and Ultra Video phones at the top of Samsung's lineup. Though the similarity of Samsung's smartphone and Apple's iPhone are astonishing, the Ultra Smart distinguishes with its slide-out keyboard. This adds about a 0.25 inch to the thickness. But it still gives the advantage of avoiding tapping messages on the touch screen. The Ultra Smart F700 interface is still a mystery, but because Samsung has integrated VibeTonz technology it is believed that slight vibrations will be felt when touch the screen. Also interface will feature "drag and drop" principle, which actually is a hint that it won't be a Windows Mobile device. The Ultra Smart F700 is one of the first phones that is promised to work on 7.2Mbps HSDPA networks. This means that, for example, a 4MB song would take about 4.4 seconds to download. F700 has no Wi-Fi feature, which gives iPhone a slight advantage. Though a 5-megapixel camera is mounted on this phone, specialists are skeptical about the quality of the camera lens. Other features include:
2. Nokia N95 Nokia N95 is coming in March 2007. The estimated price of this 'multimedia computer' will be around $550. At New York City presentation the N95 proved to be a small slider phone, with a bright and clear screen and a perfect and smooth interface. The pleasant surprise about this smartphone is the GPS feature, especially the 3-D mapping. N95 is based on the rendering of the 3-D map. The QVGA (320x240) screen play bright and clear movies. The phone is also equipped with a 5-megapixel camera and a video recorder capable of VGA (640x480) recording. It supports microSD cards, as well as a TV-out port and speedy HSDPA data support. Other features include:
3. Apple iPhone Though there are several other smartphones to come, the most expected is probably the Apple's iPhone. It will be released in June 2007, but it will be available to the public use only after another six months. The estimated price will be from $499 to $599. iPhone is an EDGE-enabled, 8GB touch-screen device. This incredible smartphone has a 3.5-inch, 320 x 480 display. The gorgeous display is enabled with the "multi-touch" feature. This means you can use two-finger moves, such as 'pinching' for zooming in photos and e-mail messages. It is considered that the multi-touch feature is reminiscent of the two-finger scrolling trackpads installed on Mac laptops. The iPhone screen will come up with a protective coating, to avoid scratches. Still fingertips are not to be avoided. The sizes of the iPhone (4.5 by 2.4 by 0.46 inches) make it the thinnest of the slim-smartphone bunch. It fades to also be the lightest one by weighting 4.8 ounces and quiting positions to Samsung BlackJack (3.5 ounces), Motorola Q (4.1 ounces) and T-Mobile Dash (4.2 ounces). The iPhone's most striking features are: "visual voicemail," which lets you see a list of voice-mail messages that you can tap and play in any order; conference calling abilities; Bluetooth calling; mail applications with rich HTML messages and you can pull down your messages from IMAP and POP servers; etc. The bonus feature is offered by Yahoo, which will allow free push IMAP e-mail to all Yahoo Mail users. iPhone doesn't appear to support Exchange, BlackBerry or any other kind of corporate message server which is a drawback if compared to smartphones such as the Moto Q or the Treo 700p. Steve Jobs was the one to tell The New York Times that the iPhone is a closed-platform device with no third-party applications. This means that any iPhone upgrades would be provided by Apple solely. iPhone hasn't disappointed the high expectations for the music and video applications. Apple's Cover Flow music feature is overwhelming. It will allow you flip through a virtual shelf of album covers. Using the feature you get a series of music controls once a song plays. As for video abilities, you can turn the iPhone sideways to watch full-screen video. Plus you get translucent playback controls. The weak spot about video and audio abilities is that you can't download music or video via iTunes, and you can't sync your PC- or Mac-based content over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Of course this is what is believed and concluded from some iPhone specifications for now, the rest will be evident after its appearance. iPhone widgets look promising there are at least two of the little mini-apps, one for weather and another for stocks. Specifications:
4. LG KE850 LG KE850 is to come March 2007. It is a serious competitor of iPhone. This smartphone is candy bar designed and EDGE-enabled piece. It measures 3.9 by 2.1 by 0.5 inches. A huge touch screen, a 2-megapixel camera and an MP3 player complement the device. LG creation was designed in partnership with Prada. KE850 comes with a slim (0.5 inches) handset, a large touch screen that replaces a conventional keypad and soft keys. The Flash-powered display lets you control a wide variety of functions. KE850 model manages the tri-band GSM/EDGE. Other important features are 2-megapixel camera provided with Schneider-Kreuznach lens, a music player that supports MP3s, AACs, WMAs and RealAudio files, a document viewer (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDF files). Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0 and microSD memory expansion are also available. LG aims to take a share of world market which will include Europe and Asia. 5. Samsung SCH-i760 SCH-i760 is a QWERTY slider and it comes in March 2007 to offer browsing via Wi-Fi networks, dual-keypad design and Windows interface. The latter is a judging by the Windows "Start" key on the lower-right half of the keypad. So it will definitely be a Windows Mobile Smartphone! SCH-i760 seems to be a business-oriented phone. The phone has the traditional numeric keypad on the top half of the slide. The QWERTY pad sides from beneath. Nothing is mentioned about music downloads or other multimedia functions, such as stereo Bluetooth or streaming video. Other features include:
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