Samsung's UpStage Looks To Trump iPhone 197
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."
WhaHuh? (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:"Looks To..." (Score:5, Informative)
here's the phone in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-XFK8zOt9E [youtube.com]
This think strikes me as another clunky convergence device with a million buttons..
Re:Already Obsolete (Score:2, Informative)
Supports java too (Score:3, Informative)
Being more open and home brew friendly makes this much more attractive to me than the iPhone.
American Phones Suck (Score:3, Informative)