

The Samsung's technical specification is hardly shabby either, coming loaded with tri-band GSM and HSDPA 3G good for 3.6Mb/s a three-megapixel camera with flash 100MB of shared memory a Micro SD slot that'll take 4GB cards and comes complete with a 1GB card A2DP Bluetooth stereo a media player and a messaging application that can handle IMAP4 and POP3 email. The slide action of the handset is very smooth and nicely weighted, with a closing spring action that has enough force to ensure that it won't open accidentally when in use. Rather strangely, the unit comes with two different rear battery panel covers - a gloss black one which matches the front of the unit but really shows up fingerprints, and a matt black one that doesn't match and doesn't show prints. Nudge the upper half to the right and a rather fine Qwerty keyboard is revealed, which explains the extra thickness over its two main rivals. The glossy black handset measures up at 112 x 56 x 16mm and weighs 139g, making it broadly comparable to the iPhone and a tad larger than the LG Prada handset - reviewed here.

On looks alone the F700 gets off to a good start. Samsung's SGH-F700: a gentle nudge reveals a respectable keypad
