I'm sure everyone loves the devices that come with something different, devices that love to show-off the crazy ideas implemented within them. The Samsung SGH-E890 cell phone is one of those bizarre contraptions that will leave you hanging around a display booth wondering: �If this is not a slider phone than why doesn't it have a keypad of some sort? Where have they hidden it? How is one able to write anything on it?�.

Well, the mystery is pretty easy to solve if you continue to read the spec sheet and stumble upon the line that says the phone has a 2.3 inch 256k colors TFT touchscreen, working at a resolution of 240x320 and having handwriting recognition capabilities. This way, Samsung came up with a device that does more than just look great, from my point of view, with an original touch on the usability side by having an implemented Touch UI combining a high-quality TFT display and a keypad, thus providing its users with a new level of communication comfort.

If you are wondering how are you going to write on that display, then you should know the phone comes together with a stylus that will let you express yourself without the need to use the slow and bulky 12 button keypad we are all used to on our non-QWERTY mobile phones.

The 14 mm thick handset will also offer you a 1.3 megapixel digital camera with a CMOS sensor and camcorder abilities, GPRS, EDGE and USB connectivity, wireless Bluetooth, TV-OUT, a music player with support for MP3, AAC, AAC+ and WMA audio files, integrated Java technology, 54 MB of built-in memory, a microSD memory expansion card slot for the storage needy users, all these covered in a cream of interactive touchscreen games.

Therefore, if one adds up all the above features, the tag price of 361 $ is not such a big surprise considering the fact that you will also remain with the freedom of choosing a carrier. There is another possibility though: if you think the Singapore carrier offering the phone with a contract does it for you, then you will be able to get it for only 297.75 $.

It doesn't sound that much when you think about the Touch UI included interface that comes with the package, doesn't it?