An unannounced Samsung phone showed up on the company's USA website right before the weekend (and has now been pulled). Called the Samsung Flight II (model A927), the handset takes on a messaging feature set similar to its predecessor, but comes equipped with a sliding landscape, rather than portrait, keyboard.
Slated to join AT&T's roster of feature phones, it bundles both a touchscreen and a four-row set of QWERTY keys. The phone measures 4.4 x 2.1 x 0.5 inches with the keyboard tucked in and weighs 3.5 ounces.
Details of the Samsung Flight II include a 3-inch TFT touchscreen display (240 x 400 resolution), a 2.0 megapixel camera module, aGPS (with AT&T Navigator), stereo Bluetooth, 512MB of storage and microSD card expansion (up to 16GB). Battery is good for 5 hours of talk time and 250 hours of standby.
The handset will run Samsung's finger-friendly TouchWiz UI, along with a decent-sounding range of features. It gets the requite messaging capabilities (SMS, MMS, IM and mobile email), social networking access, a full HTML browser and support for AT&T's Mobile TV service.
A formal announcement for the Samsung Flight II may be coming, which is why it's been removed (as of now) from the Samsung USA website. Given that the first Flight now costs free on contract, expect this to be somewhere near the budget range too.
[via Phone Scoop]
