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."

"Looks To..."

[Telephone Sanitizer]

"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).

uPhone?

[dotslashdot]

Shouldn't they just call it uPhone? That way, when someone asks, "iPhone?", you can reply, "No. uPhone."

Re:WhaHuh?

[carpe_noctem]

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"..

Re:Ironic name.

[hc5duke]

Ironic? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...

Re:Phone vs multimedia GUI?

[Anomolous Cowturd]

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?

Cluster

[Morky]

A Beowulf cluster of these things couldn't upstage the iPhone.

Moo

[Chacham]

The UpStage trumped [slashdot.org] the iPhone, which killed [slashdot.org] the iPod, which replaced [slashdot.org] the Flight Data Recorder, which ...