It is a sad sight when you tend to open one of those dreadful FCC files and find some of the best mobile phones in the world lying rejected by it. The painful part is that a neat phone like the Nokia N79, which is mistakenly referred to as the Nokia RM350, lies grounded while a poorer American version of it sits pretty next to it all set to be launched in the market with an approval of ‘Pass’ stamped on it. This is America’s way of sidelining the others to make themselves more prominent and successful. It is a tear jerker but that is the way it has to be and will remain for time to come.

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has confirmed the testing for Samsung SCH-U940. The mobile phone will be probably released with Verizon Wireless.

As I have said above, Samsung U940 will be compatible with Verizon’s CDMA and EVDO network. It is an American version of the F700 model. The phone sports a 3.2″ touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard. It has a single key on the front panel, but the side-sliding unveils its keyboard.

Other features of this phone include a 2.0 megapixel camera, 150MB of internal memory, a microSD slot and Stereo Bluetooth. We cannot tell for sure the exact release date nor its price. But we should expect it somewhere in the first half of 2008.

via Electronista