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Samsung will fulfill the dream of users looking for a QWERTY phone at a cheap price. The Gravity or in T-Mobile’s parlance, t459 offers a full QWERTY keyboard hidden beneath the screen and alphanumeric keyboard. As you would expect, there is nothing extraordinary over here except the goodness of QWERTY. T-Mobile will preload e-mail client settings of AOL, AIM, Yahoo!, Gmail while IM client list includes AOL, ICQ, Windows Live and Yahoo!.

The Gravity further pulls in a music player, 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, advanced voice recognition, loudspeaker, PIM functions and microSD expansion up to 4GB.

T-Mobile will be selling the phone for a cheap price of $50 with a mail-in rebate of $50. However, to qualify for the rebate, a user need to buy the phone with a 2 year contract and have a data plan not less than $14.98.