Chances are, the Samsung Chat 350 won't receive all that much of an unveiling. It's just a compact messaging feature phone, after all. Now that someone managed to leak details of the handset, you may as well consider this as official an announcement as you can get.
The likely third phone in the Chat series (which Samsung irritatingly continues to refer to as the Ch@t), it sports similar dimensions and styling to the Samsung Champ 3300. Except this one takes on a landscape slider form factor, coming with a flush-looking four-row QWERTY keyboard in tow. Oh yeah, it's thicker, of course, measuring in at 100 x 52 x 16 mm.
Details of the Samsung Chat 350 include a 2.4-inch touchscreen display (320 x 240 resolution), a 2.0 megapixel camera module, Bluetooth 2.1, an FM radio and microSD card expansion (up to 8GB). Neither 3G nor WiFi are onboard, so you're stuck with GPRS for data connectivity.
According to the source, the phone will be running a proprietary UI software (not TouchWiz), much like the other phones in the series. Since this isn't an official announcement, there's neither pricing nor release date. With a product shot like that, though, expect this to hit the budget section in your local carrier's roster soon.
[via Samsung Hub]
