Samsung's i830 Smart Phone
Business and pleasure are already global, and more and more cellphones are catching up to those that lead such jet-setting lifestyles. The last of the famous international playboys, then, might be apt to check out Samsung's new quad-band world phone, the i830.
The i830 manages to "sleek up" its workmanlike design with a slide out keyboard and a handsome black casing. The touch-sensitive LCD screen is a vertically oriented 2.8", capable of displaying up to seventeen lines are readable text. While we hardly had time to put the phone through its paces, we did find the screen to be sharp and bright, and touch sensitivity very reactive. (Of course, how it'll fare Sunday afternoon will be another story. We've seen too many showgoers attack touch screens like prize fighters....
