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Samsung's UpStage Looks To Trump iPhone
bj sends word of Samsung's recently unveiled cell phone, called UpStage. It will ship April 1 (no fooling) for $300, or $150 with a 2-year contract from Sprint Nextel. "...the UpStage is a candy-bar style handset that's less than half an inch thick and not much taller or wider than an iPod Nano. Other multimedia-friendly cell phones struggle to balance the sometimes-conflicting requirements of a conventional handset and a music or video player; the UpStage solves this quandary by simply putting phone functions on one side of the device and the multimedia functions on the other side."
"Samsung's UpStage Looks To Trump iPhone"
And fails.
Okay, I have no experience with the phone. I'm just saying that as with all recent Samsung phones, it almost certainly has two fatal weaknesses:
1) the typical Samsung phone interface (designed for the cheap and ignorant and their pet hamsters); and
2) the typical Samsung advanced feature-set (a.k.a. the self-destruct which activates immediately upon using it for anything other than voicemail).
Shouldn't they just call it uPhone? That way, when someone asks, "iPhone?", you can reply, "No. uPhone."
Why are these being compared? They are not in the same product class or market.
Because it's an "iPhone killer", duh!
Oh wait.... since the iPhone hasn't been released yet, I guess that would instead make it an "iPhone aborter"..
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
Ironic? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...
Gak! Stylus? On a phone - like I really want to need two hands to use my phone...
One hand to keep the pr0n coming via WAP, the other to umm... keep yourself coming via FAP?
Software patents delenda est.
A Beowulf cluster of these things couldn't upstage the iPhone.
The UpStage trumped the iPhone, which killed the iPod, which replaced the Flight Data Recorder, which ...
Have you read my journal today?