Verizon launches the Samsung Intensity II SCH-U460 with one-touch social networking access and QWERTY keyboard. As the follow-up to the Intensity, the new model has a similar design as the predecessor, featuring external numeric keypad and horizontal slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
The Intensity II comes with a 2.2-inch 240×320 LCD screen, a 1.3 Megapixel camera with night vision, Bluetooth and microSD card slot. It includes Social Beat application for easy access to social networking sites such as facebook, twitter, MySpace; VZ Navigator for turn by turn navigation and support for Verizon’s services.
For customers interested in calculating their own carbon footprints, the Intensity II offers an eco-calculator to track car fuel mileage, efficiency and estimated amount of carbon dioxide emitted. The phone’s battery cover made from 35 percent post-consumer materials, which is recycled plastic extracted from water bottles or other recycled polycarbonate materials.
The Samsung Intensity II comes in deep gray and metallic blue. It is available for $49.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year contract.
