T-mobile already has this service and it's been rumored that the iphone will use this as well with it's built in WI-FI capability built in. Look for a complete redesign of the landscape in the coming year due to cell phones using WI-fi to transfer calls which cost a fraction of using the cell towers. This is prevelent in Europe as well, with Skype registering to distribute cell phones. To top it all, you now see plans like Helio's unlimited plan with unlimted voice and data for $99. Something we would have never imagined.


Will the low-power femtocell still work if I have a full-power cell tower right outside my apartment?

Remember, the F700 does have a touch-screen ... dunno if it does multi-touch or not. But the keyboard *should* just be a bonus extra if they've designed the interface nicely.
-ihiaviz

Why (oh why) have Samsung - along with many other phone manufacturers - not given the numbers their own line on this phone's keyboard?

With the limited number of keys available, incredibly 'basic' or useful keys then have to double up to have two modes.

On my O2 XDA the:
- confirm key is also speech marks
- the four arrow keys are each a different bit of punctuation
- the space bar doubles up as a shortcut for extra symbols.

On the Samsung pictured, the left arrow doubles as a down, and the right as up - I guarantee this will make navigation a royal PITA.

Does it plug into a landline, or does it amplify the signal strength and rebroadcast the signal to the nearest mobile phone mast?

Or is it option 3?



That femtocell sounds very much like the Wi-Fi adapter that T-mobile has been selling for at least 1 year in the States. It would be a good thing, if you had taken some time to describe how the bloody thing is supposed to work.

I, Franzius

... even more electro-smog. goodbye land-lines, hello cancer ....