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Samsung i740: all smartphone, no frills
The rumored i740 slider from Samsung has now been announced, and as expected, it's a 3G-free beast. That's actually pretty cool since it'll do its part toward keeping the sticker shock to an absolute minimum -- around €300 ($469) when it launches in October -- though it's a tougher pill to swallow when you consider that it also lacks WiFi. In other words, buyers should expect to use this Windows Mobile 6.1 bad boy as a slave to ActiveSync with the occasional jaunt over EDGE for email (text only, of course) or Internet Explorer Mobile if you're trying to teach yourself some sort of sick lesson. On the flipside, it'll do GPS and feature a decent 3.2 megapixel cam plus an FM radio. You know, the kind of radio people used before they had 3G to stream it over the 'net.
Samsung i740 smartphone to forgo 3G?
News flash: there are apparently still smartphone buyers in the world who don't care about high-speed data. Yeah, we can't fathom it either, but Samsung is apparently taking that belief to heart with the rumored i740, a spiritual successor to the i710 series. The Windows Mobile 6.1 device, it seems, would go cold turkey on all forms of quick downloads -- 3G and WiFi alike -- but hang on to GPS, an FM radio, 2.8-inch touchscreen, 3 megapixel camera with flash, Bluetooth, and microSD slot. The metal (or merely metallic, perhaps) casing looks good enough for a higher-end device at first glance, so if they can keep the package ridiculously cheap, we might be willing to look past the inevitable descent into insanity that comes with a slow-ass mobile browsing experience.[Via Slashphone]
