The Samsung SGH-F490 was recently made available to Vodafone subscribers in UK. This handset was one of Samsung's first phones for the year 2008 and was launched way back January. At first glance, it is much similar with Sprint's M800 Instinct, which is also a touch screen cell phone.

For people who love slim phones, you would be delighted with the SGH-F490's sleek look and it only weights 102 grams with a dimension of 115 x 53.5 x 11.8. The SGH-F490 boasts of its wide 3.2-inch display colored screen (262k colors) with touch screen capabilities. The SGH-490 is designed for touch control and dumps the QWERTY keyboard and keypads all together.

The SGH-F490 is also one of the best camera phone in the market. It has a built-in 5-mega-pixel phone with flash and auto-focus functions. It can also double up as video recorder. You can playback videos with its own player and listen to your favorite MP3's with its music player.

You can take advantage of it’s A2DP Bluetooth stereo for superb audio quality.
For those who are fond of video calling, you would want to grab an SGH-F490. It has 3G capabilities that can offer UMTS and HSDPA connectivity. You can go online and go as fast as 3.6 Mbps in data transfer. You can also use its integrated Google Search application with its NetFront 3.4 web browser. You can also uses its GSM/ EDGE technology. If you want extra storage space, you can put on a microSD card.

UK cell phone users can now purchase the Samsung F490. To avail of this handset, you have to sign in a 2 year contract agreement with Vodafone and subscribe to one of its data plans.

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