Samsung has launched another F series touchscreen phone called Samsung F490. This phone is excellent in its class and as you explore the features you go on losing your heart for it.

When it comes to mobile phones we rarely doubt the name Samsung. They have gifted us with so many models to make our lives easier and faster. With their every model they have tried to present something different or updated the existing features to take the usage of mobile phone to the next level. Samsung mobile phones have always met our expectations and Samsung F490 will do it without any doubt. If you still have doubt lets find the attributes of the phone and see what lies in store for you.

This is triband and 3G smart phone. The device supports GSM 900/1800/1900 networks and you can carry it to many places around the globe. The phone was announced in February 2008 and people are waiting anxiously for its availability.

The black beauty has a dimensions of 115 x 53.5 x 11.8 mm and it quite lightweight. It weighs just 102 gm. The TFT touchscreen display is of 3.3 inches and has a resolution of 240X432 pixels to display high quality pictures. You will have almost DVD quality video on this screen.

Samsung Nerva F490 has an internal memory of 130MB and you can extend it with a microSD card. The capacity of phonebook is 100 entries. The GPRS is of class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps and the EDGE is of class 10, 236.8 kbps. There is no WLAN but WAP x/HTML browser.

The other remarkable and useful features of Samsung Nerva F490 are Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, USB port, SMS, EMS, Email, MMS, Instant Messaging, High end games, 5MP camera with auto focus and flash, secondary video call camera, Java MIDP 2.0 and a powerful media player. The media player of F490 can play files like WMV, MPEG4, H.264, H.263 and also MP3/WMA /AAC/AAC+files.

Besides these the phone has a Voice recorder, document viewer to access Office files, Organiser, Google Search option and powerful Hands free speaker. The best part of the phone is that its expected to give 6 hours of talk time to you. Upcoming phones in samsung f-series are Samsung F480, Samsung F400