Samsung to unveil Touch Ultra Phone

Samsung has announced its latest Samsung mobile phone aimed at the full touch screen end of the market that was ignited by Apple's iPhone.



This slider phone from Samsung has a 2.8inch OLED screen with 240 pixels by 400 pixel (WQVGA) resolutions. Like all sliders; the bottom half of the phone's body can be slid down to reveal a keypad. On the Touch Ultra, it's a basic 10-button number keypad. There's also three function buttons underneath the main display on the phone's face.

The mobile phone is 12.7mm thick and is equipped with an 8-megapixel camera with LED flash and smile mode that snaps a picture only when people are smiling. Also included within this is GPS for navigation and geo-tagging of photos. Video recording is 30 frames per second in VGA quality.

The phone is a WCDMA (wideband code division multiple access) model with 7.2Mbps HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) data support. The other features include video playback for DivX, XviD, H.263, H.264, Windows Media Video 9 and MPEG4 files, FM radio, music player and Bluetooth 2.0. The mobile phone has 80MB of internal memory.

The Touch Ultra will be displayed at next week's Mobile World Congress expo in Barcelona.