Samsung F488 relaunched with new TouchWiz cut, ‘i’ suffix
Samsung F488 relaunched with new TouchWiz cut, ‘i’ suffix
We would’ve expected the F480 to fade away quietly into the night, considering that it was the very first device Samsung launched to run TouchWiz back in the day — but instead, they’re taking a different approach by reloading it with the latest and greatest build and launching it anew. The F488i is a variant of the F488i for the Asian market that’s been tweaked for an Asian market — Hong Kong, in this case — and that ‘i’ on the end means that it’s been hooked up with a so-called ’3X TouchWiz user interface’ (in other words, three pages of widgets on the home screen, not unlike Android), new social networking features, and photo contacts. The F480′s still a pretty smart-looking phone even by 2009 standards, so we’ve got no problem with Sammy’s tactic here — not to say it much matters in the States.
[Via Unwired View]
