The budget phone features a VGA camera

Jan 10, 2007 07:51 GMT  ·  By

If you're eager to see what mobile phone manufacturers have been up to lately, there's no better place to visit these couple of days than the CES.

Samsung is not to be neglected either while you are visiting the Customer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Among other phones, the Korean manufacturer presented an affordable clamshell that will apparently be heading over to T-Mobile.

Users who are looking for an advanced phone with amazing features will most likely have to look somewhere else, because the Samsung SGH-t329 brings a pretty basic feature set and is meant to be a budget phone.

The mobile phone's design looks very much like the E570's and the features the phone includes aren't all that different from the latter's.

The T329 includes a VGA camera (comparing to the 1.3 megapixel on that the E570 comes with), a 1.77 inch 65k color TFT LCD internal screen with 128 x 160 pixel resolution as well as a 1.32 inch black and white external screen with a 128 x 32 pixel resolution, speakerphone and Bluetooth for connectivity.

Therefore, the tri-band mobile phone targets the less pretentious user who wants a stylish clamshell phone, a basic camera to take snapshots and a basic set of features, all packed up in an affordable, easy-to-use handset.

According to Samsung, the launch of the SGH-T329 will take place in late February or early March this year, so it won't be long before the phone moves along to T-Mobile. The price is unknown for the time being, but it will surely be revealed along with the release of the phone.