Samsung Introduces Touch Phone to Compete with Apple iPhone

Samsung Electronics will launch a touch-screen, full Internet-browsing mobile phone in hopes of occupying Korea's domestic smartphone market before the Apple iPhone arrives.

Samsung will sell the  M4650 “Multi-touch Phone'' via LG Telecom.

The handset:

1. has a 2.8-inch LCD screen

2. the screen doubles as a keypad

3. the screen is smaller than iPhone's 3.5-inch display and is used with a stylus pen.

Touch phones are considered high-end and people use them to listen to music, check e-mails and for casual web surfing.

Some even think the smartphone may become the PC of the next generation.

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Korea has a well-established broadband Internet network making users less inclined to buy big phones to do Internet things.

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