Samsung F400: a Premium Dual-slider Music Phone

Here's a scoop that music phone lovers will like. Samsung just unveiled a premium dual-slider music phone for consumers who love to listen to their favorite artists on their handsets. Music lovers, say hello to the Samsung F400 dual-slider music phone!

The Samsung F400 sports a 3 megapixel camera with AF and LED Flash, Bang & Olufsen ICEpower tech, Digital Natural Sound engine (DNSe™) 2.0. It packs all of these and a lot of other features in a 16.9 mm thin casing.

Here are the top features found on this premium music-centric mobile phone:

• Dual stereo speakers
• 2.2-inch 262K TYT screen
• 3.5 mm headphone jack
• USB 2.0
• HSDPA network support
• FM Radio with RDS
• Bluetooth 2.0
• 1 GB microSD card in-box with support for up to 8GB cards

Music playing handsets are usually more expensive than your average cell phones. However, the price becomes lees of an issue if the music mobile phone also offers a set of features that would justify the price. Well, Samsung's new F400 music phone offers great features that would put a lot of other music phones to shame.

However, some experts note that the Samsung lacks a bit of originality because it borrows a few concepts from its competitors. For example, the dual-sliding design of the Samsung F400 was already used by Nokia with the Nokia N95. Samsung's new premium music phone becomes a metallic keypad equipped handset when users slide it up. The music functions become visible and combine with the music hotkey in the middle of the phone, when users slide it down.

The Samsung F400 is schedule to be released in mobile phone stores in France. Then it will be available in other cell phone markets around the globe by the end of the year. There is no clear information on the price. Some experts say that it will be a popular phone if it’s not too expensive. Tune in for more news on new mobile phones and mobile product reviews.