Sprint’s Samsung UpStage hands-on
Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio
We got our grubby mitts on the first of many phones here at CTIA in Orlando, today: the Samsung UpStage on Sprint (which you might otherwise know as being the F300, m620, and so on). There are very few phones on the market for $150 or less that offer EV-DO, music integration, and the style and unique, ultraslim form-factor of the UpStage. But we’ll be honest, the whole thing seems like a kinda hacked take on an otherwise worthy premise — that your phone and your music device should be the same, but separate. The “scroll-wheel” on the music side has no tactile feedback and doesn’t rotate in circles, only up/down or left/right, one direction at a time — totally different from the more natural motion on, say, an iPod, and half-baked feeling. Basically, if they were going to go tactile-free, the music side should have incorporated a larger touchscreen instead of that silly trackpad. The “business” side (the one with all the buttons) could really do with a larger screen, but hey, this thing is only $150, it can’t be everything to everyone, right? Check out our many pics in the gallery.
Gallery: Sprint’s Samsung UpStage hands-on
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