iPhone has company

[jeffNOTjon]

http://www.samsung.com/PressCenter/Press...0000320566

[mattkime]

no, it has buttons.

[samintx]

I like the cute little MOT RED cell for valentine's day.

[jdc]

5mp camera? in a phone?

[spearmint]

It has both touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard which give it an advantage over the iPhone.

[stephen]

That thing looks exceedingly sweet.

Unfortunately, the announced version doesn't have HSDPA broadband on any frequencies used in the US.

They would have to make a different US version.

[M A V I C]

[quote spearmint]It has both touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard which give it an advantage over the iPhone.
The iPhone has a qwerty keyboard as well, and it doesn't waste physical space by serving only one function.

[karsen]

That keyboard doesn't waste space since it slides out. That phone looks niiiiice!

[mattkime]

>>That keyboard doesn't waste space since it slides out.

It wastes depth!

How can you look at another phone??

The iPhone HATES YOU!!!

[Silencio]

Slide-out keyboard = thick as a brick. It's about 5mm thicker than the iPhone.

Hmm, I wonder what OS it's running. Definitely not Windows Mobile, at least. It actually looks like a fairly well thought-out UI from the product shots: maybe a Linux variant. I'm slightly intrigued, though I have been very unimpressed with the quality of Samsung phones lately.

Speaking of iPhone, I highly recommend the series of cell phone/mobile platform analyses posted on RoughlyDrafted.com. I think they very clearly lay out where Windows Mobile, Palm OS, and Symbian went wrong and show that iPhone and OS X really do have a big opportunity to make some serious noise in the smartphone market. They also have very instructive price comparisons between the iPhone, LG Prada, and SonyEricsson P990. Spoiler: the iPhone has significantly better features and costs less.