Category: Samsung UpStage Cell Phone
Check out Samsung's UpStage, one of the best music-oriented cell phones.
Upstage_doubled Alas, the Apple iPhone is still months away. While you're waiting, why not check out Samsung's UpStage, one of the best music-oriented cell phones, but with some flaws. The innovative design takes some getting used to: At first blush the phone is a standard candy bar handset with a very small LCD. But turn it over and you'll find a larger, 2.1-inch LCD and a set of media player controls.
Pressing a special button tells the phone which side you're using (unfortunately only one face works at a time). As a phone, the UpStage works perfectly well, and music sounds excellent, but we never got the hang of the temperamental touch-sensitive "sweep" control system.
Ultra-portable at a nearly-Nano-sized 2.7 ounces and 4 x 1.8 x 0.4 inches. Excellent audio output; handles a wide variety of music formats and offers a decent 10.5 hours of playing time. Striking appearance really turns heads.
Included 64MB microSD card is essentially useless. Weak talk time at under 3 hours. Touchy controls require lots of practice and patience. Proprietary headphone connector juts out the side. Repeated problems trying to access memory card. Difficult to achieve clear photos, despite its 1.3-megapixel camera.
$149 with a two-year Sprint contract.
Source: Samsung
