Fancy a new Samsung double slider with some ultra hi-tech Bang & Olufsen audio muscle? Course you do, so it’s a good thing that the Korean manufacturer is obliging with the F400, a handset that does both of the above.
The music focussed device is packing ICEpower technology by Bang & Olufsen with Smart Bass and Smart Limiter to ensure no audio signal exceeds the amplitude of the threshold. The music controls are confined to a rather spiffy looking clicker wheel on the front while sliding the handset up will reveal a stylish brushed metal keypad and down, a pair of duel stereo speakers for annoying fellow commuters with when you are on the bus.
The F400 also has Shazam, a clever little software trick that can find out the name and artist of an unknown tune when you point your phone at the source of the music. There’s a 3-megapixel camera, AF/FM Radio and Bluetooth v 2.0 chucked in too as well as a 1GB SD memory card in the box and a microSD slot that supports up to 8GB.
Launching in France in May, the F400 is set to land elsewhere in Europe (hopefully the UK) shortly after.
