http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Samsung's Croix: yet another 'iPhone rival' http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/Sep 3rd 2007 3:25PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/
Take a look - http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_f700-pictures-1849.php]]>Sep 3rd 2007 4:01PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/
Given the article you linked to seems unsure as to whether it's the phone or the interface that is 'Croix', I'm going to venture that this is a the F700, which utilises an interface called 'Croix'.]]>Sep 3rd 2007 4:22PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/Sep 4th 2007 12:24AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/
But this phone is looking to give both Apple and HTC a run for it's money. I can't wait to see that come to the US in a GSM model.]]>Sep 4th 2007 12:52AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/
Tell me, how many companies were making large-screen phones with a touch interface and a single button on the face before the iPhone? How many are making them now?]]>Sep 4th 2007 3:32AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/The iPhone is revolutionary because of the UI that it has built in rather than its form factor. It's simply not true that Apple were the first to come up with this form-factor

I'm sorry but this is hardly an iPhone clone. Given when it was announced and when a working model was available for the public to try-out, this phone was being developed well before the iPhone was unveiled. And as for making it distinct, this device has a fold-out QWERTY keyboard and has far more advanced features than the (truly excellent) iPhone. I imagine this phone was developed to take on the very similar HTC devices with fold out keyboards rather than the iPhone. In fact HTC have been making Windows Mobile Devices with this form-factor for a few years now.

The same goes for the LG Prada. This was announced before the iPhone as well and the phones from LG like the KG990 are updates to that device rather than iPhone clones.

Nokia even had their 7700 and 7710 touchscreen devices back in 2004 and more recently have released the N770 and the N800. Of course none of these device are exactly similar to the iPhone but it shows that these form-factors have been around for a while.

The iPhone is a fantastic device. The UI is in a different class and the physical build is fantastic. It just annoys me that people seem to thing that any new phone that is touchscreen based is trying to *clone* it.]]>Sep 4th 2007 10:49AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/Sep 4th 2007 10:08AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/http://mobile.engadget.com/2007/09/03/samsungs-croix-yet-another-iphone-rival/Sep 6th 2007 12:01AM