Samsung takes aim at iPhone with touch-screen sporting F700

It's been exactly one month since the iPhone's first unveiling and here comes the competition, right on schedule. Samsung has taken the wraps off of its entry into the next-gen handset market--the so-called Ultra Smart F700--and it packs a number of features that should already be familiar: a touchscreen, EDGE support, full-featured HTML browser, Bluetooth, built-in camera and music playback capability, all in a ultra-slim, svelte package. Samsung, however, ups the ante with a few key features: a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and support for 7.2Mbps 3G/HSDPA. Considering that these are precisely the features that many business users cited the iPhone as lacking, the F700 could prove a strong contender, especially in the enterprise.

For more on the F700:
- see this Engadget article
- or this write-up at ComputerWorld