Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Verizon Wireless, 1xRTT, EV-DO, CDMA
We've gotta hand it to Verizon here; The Network's still got a bit of a reputation as a stodgy, old-school carrier that eschews style for reliability, but they've been working their rumps off the past couple years trying to shake that image with devices like the US-exclusive version of the
Chocolate and the unusual
VX9400. Still, though, we would've
never expected a US carrier to pick up a variant of Samsung's wild
X830, an ultra-narrow, swiveling music phone that isn't the easiest device in the world to use, but sure looks cool. phoneArena is reporting that the pictured device is the Samsung U470, a handset obviously in the X830's lineage, with a Verizon release planned for 2008. Features are said to include a camera, 220 x 128 display, A2DP, microSD slot, and if we had to guess, some rather healthy quantity of internal Flash. Mercifully, Samsung has opted for a traditional three-wide numeric keypad here instead of the tricky two-wide type used on the original, so we're pretty stoked that this one could be surprisingly usable despite its diminutive dimensions. Stay tuned!
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Sep 09 2007, 02:23 PM
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Filed under: EV-DO, Verizon Wireless, 1xRTT, VerizonWireless, Samsung, CDMA, vzw, verizon, Handsets, rumor, sgh-x830, sch-u470, u470, x830