Samsung fêtes 'first' HSUPA phone

Samsung has shown off one of the first phones to support 2Mb/s HSUPA 3G upload acceleration technology. Samsung SCH-M470 Samsung's SCH-M470: first HSUPA phone? The SCH-M470 is destined - initially at least - for South Korea Telecom's HSUPA network. In addition to the ability to upload data at a rate of up to 2Mb/s, the …

[Anonymous Coward]

How wide is that phone?!!

Really.. how wide is it?

[Tom]

what is going on...

in that first picture..

I see a woman with her legs crossed, a random hand holding the phone, and then just to the left of the phone there appears to be a knee.. but the woman to the left is sitting back against something, so where is that knee coming from!!!

Its Monday, and I dont like it.

[amanfromMars]

Standard Smart Width?

Looks Blackberry-wide in the pics, AC.

[Gareth Hughes]

Re: How wide is that phone?!!

Exactly what I thought when I saw this!!!

[Mister Cheese]

@amanfromMars

Must be Monday - I understood your comment! :-)

[The_Police!]

Forget the phone....

...look at the women!

Mines the one with 'looker' on it.

[c]

Hardly the first HSUPA phones

Samsung are a little late on the picture - HSUPA on phones has been around for a few months now. The i-mate 8502 and 9502 were commercially released a while back down here in Oz.

[Jon]

Lies.

Header says 'first'!!

HTC have had the tytnII out for ages now, that has HSUPA...

Although what I dont get is why boost the Uplink massively (when comparing ratio to home broadband 256/512k up -- 8-24mb down) 7.2mbps? why not go for the 14.4, i know most ops dont support it yet but they will, in time...