Since there were no news about this handset at CES this week, I thought they were saving the announcement for the big 3GSM show in Barcelona, next month. But I was wrong. Samsung SGH-F490 is being launched today.
Why waste the opportunity to show off the new phone at the one of the biggest trade shows of the year? And then then issue a press release, about the flagship product, that will likely be lost among the flood of news reports coming from CES?

And the official Samsung F490 specifications:
* Tri band GSM (900/1800/1900), UMTS 2100, HSDPA 3.6 Mbps
* 3.2″ 262K Color 16:9 Wide Full Touch Display with Haptics feedback
* Croix interface
* 5 mpx camera, video recording (MPEG4, QVGA at 15 fps)
* Front camera for video calls
* Video playback at 30 fps
* 130 MB of Internal memory
* Built-in mobile Google apps
* microSD card slot
* standard 3.5 mm headphone jack
* Bluetooth 2.0 (A2DP+AVRCP), USB 2.0
* Dimensions: 115 x53.5 x11.8 mm
* Weight: 102g








