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Samsung's UpStage Looks To Trump iPhone

Posted by kdawson on from the flip dept.

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."

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  1. WhaHuh? by Telvin_3d · · Score: 5, Informative

    Um, how does this have anything to do with the iPhone? What is the point in comparing the two devices? For all I know this phone will turn out to be successful, but it is a completely different product.

    iPhone - 4-8 GB of storage
    Upstage - 64 MB (HA! yes Megabyte!)

    iPhone - 3.5 inch screen at 320x480
    Upstage - 2.1 inch screen at 176x220

    iPhone - Ability to upload your own video content
    Upstage - Access to Sprint TV video clips

    Why are these being compared? They are not in the same product class or market.

  2. Re:"Looks To..." by Aqua+OS+X · · Score: 4, Informative

    true true.

    here's the phone in action.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-XFK8zOt9E

    This think strikes me as another clunky convergence device with a million buttons..

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  3. American Phones Suck by paulkimchee · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm in Korea right now, and the technology that they put into phones is amazing. They've had DMB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Multimedia_Br oadcasting in their phones for about a year now... The cameras in their phones go up to 5 megapixels, broadband internet (WiBro)... they have tons of phones that trump the iPhone... hands down, but not in the US market. When Samsung exports phones to the US, we're getting phones that Korea had 2-3 years ago...

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