Samsung F490 review: Fingertip away

27 February 2008
The Samsung F490 follows a trend that we welcome - touch-based user interface and a 5 megapixel autofocus camera. Add a widescreen 3.2" TFT display and a slim profile, and it already sounds like a juicy deal. We've already reviewed...

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  • Nina Myers
  • mA%
  • 27 Feb 2008

Full review here:
www.mobile-review.com
www.mobilearsenal.com (with video)

regards

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    • ML%
    • 07 Feb 2008

    Does anyone know if its gonna be on the Danish market ?

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      • Trebuh Drahcir.
      • SkE
      • 07 Feb 2008

      This is sick - photocopy ideas... Why do not they come up with original idea. C'mon Korea! you can do better than this... Stop this wierd photocopy process and set out a fresh whiteboard and start doing your homework. PLEASE....

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        • isaiah
        • vGv
        • 06 Feb 2008

        so beautifully set i really empressed by samsung its very good comparing to g 800

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          • Carlito
          • QXw
          • 05 Feb 2008

          whats the difference between the f700 and the f490...only wifi ?

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            • Muhummad-Oli
            • TSB
            • 04 Feb 2008

            Looks like schist. If they made the phone and the software look nice (really, its not so hard to do), then they could sell them by the dozen. Thats all the iPhone does.

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              • lostinusa
              • qZj
              • 04 Feb 2008

              Nice product but Where's the WIFI ??!!

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                • ECBomb
                • xIh
                • 03 Feb 2008

                wtf...now there's autofocus?? they said there wasnt...but oh well...i still like Viewty better than this one. the 0.2" bigger screen isnt that big of a difference...the Viewty has more style.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • TIE
                  • 03 Feb 2008

                  but the video demo shows that the screen is not really rsponsive to the touch and finger presses...

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                    • Anyhow
                    • pSP
                    • 02 Feb 2008

                    To Alex
                    "down to mobilereview.com they say the camera doesn't have autofocus, and u guys say that it has."

                    So now you know you shouldn't trust everything that the Russians are saying.

                    How's that screenshot as a proof that there is autofocus
                    http://i.gsmarena.com/vv/reviewsimg/samsung-f490/sshots/gsmarena_s042.jpg

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                      • Yus
                      • 0R5
                      • 02 Feb 2008

                      I would like to thank GSM ARENA team for this great review and all the other exceptional efforts.
                      I would say this is the best site for mobility news and reviews and such.
                      I have an ipod touch, which is a cheaper iphone tht can do almost everything that iphone can do thanx to the integrated OSx
                      But on the other hand i find samsung F490 very appealing!

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                        • myM
                        • 02 Feb 2008

                        This gest goes 2 show y u should wait 2 see normal images of a phone, now it looks rather normal and at the sides poorly finished, but the front design looks nice. I dont like d ui its a mixture of d samsung and iphone ui and i dont like either. Cause samsung ui is poorly done on all there phones dispite having nice phones. The iphone's ui i didnt like for all of the wibble and wap- pinch ur 2 fingers together and spread and all sorts of bull. I saw 2 watch a pic u have 2 slide ur hands aross d screen and the menu i dont like how it works.. But i think that they have done better on their ui this time so hats of 2 them 4 trying. I have d viewty and d ui is much better, simple to understand and use and still atractive and WELL animated, u find yourself smileing using it. And d camera dominance keeps the viewty a better choice 4 me, as well as divx player( dvd quality)- no 1 has beatten that feature yet.

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                          • Alex
                          • MFd
                          • 02 Feb 2008

                          down to mobilereview.com they say the camera doesn't have autofocus ,and u guys say that it has. show us some macros or something

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                            • Anonymous
                            • Rvf
                            • 01 Feb 2008

                            Whats with the clones!? They all look the same really... Make something new and different. N95 8GB still the king with the best camera too.

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                              • josh
                              • 0iZ
                              • 01 Feb 2008

                              what a waste of time and manufacture,, another relica of LG .. looks like LG and Samsung are always battleing eachother.. bunch of fools come up with your own unique designs pls.

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                                • Mustaffa
                                • PW4
                                • 01 Feb 2008

                                i already like it... again the video recording is poor..and i hope the zooming and other stuff gets fixd with first firmware.. but still i am with n82 or n95 :) ..but this phone is good..better than i-brick!

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                                  • Christov
                                  • I7V
                                  • 01 Feb 2008

                                  Im first