Samsung's i450 hits the Racks

A Dual-Slider with multimedia muscle.

Samsung's SGH-i450 got a showing at the Symbian Smarthphone Show in London, with an attractive new design.



The Dual-Slider form factor may look updise down if you're not used to it. The back of the phone actually slides up to reveal an alphanumeric keypad, so you can make calls. If you want to bring those speakers to bear, the phone will also slide downwards.

The i450 features HSDPA connectivity at 3.5 Mbps and boots up with Symbian OS v9.2. There's a touchwheel toward the bottom for input, an interface tailored to music, 2.4-inch LCD, a 2 Megapixel Camera which operates at VGA for video calls. It also comes with a hefty (for a phone) 35MB of internal memory and the ubiquitous microSD slot.