RSSNew Korean Samsung HSUPA phones will upload at 2 Mbps
By Tim Conneally | Published April 8, 2008, 5:26 PM
Samsung today unveiled its new HSUPA slider, the M470, in the company's Korean homeland.
Having blazed the way with its first High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) device, the W200 -- which promised download speeds 1.8 Mbps -- as early as May 2006, Samsung showed off today the M470, its first device to use HSUPA...and in so doing, claimed upload speeds of 2 Mbps.
Though "HSUPA" was actually coined by Nokia, this member of the High Speed Packet Access family is part of the Third Generation Partnership Project's Long Term Evolution (3GPP LTE) in the Evolved Packet System group. Samsung cites research company Gartner in its prediction of future adoption of HSUPA, saying that by 2010 over 610 million users will have devices supporting the standard.
The M470, in addition to its support of the 3G standard, also offers Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, a 2 megapixel camera, and push e-mail features (Korea only). Suggested retail is 600,000 Won, or roughly $615.
Either those girls are really small or this hand set is ridiculously large...
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|why not just buy a damn wireless card for your laptop?? unless you just want to blow $600..
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|A high price, unless you're an executive who doesn't mind wasting money. I suspect that people are certainly willing to go a bit slower to save some money.
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|I'm thinking you mean South Korean? There is no "Korean" homeland.
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|Unless you're talking about nuclear weapons, you ALWAYS mean South Korea. North Korea doesn't really exist on the technological radar.
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|The rest of the world like to pretend it doesn't exist at all.
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