Samsung 3.6Mbps HSDPA Phone

So Samsung is set to stun the world with the very first high speed access phone. HSDPA, a faster form of WCDMA and EDGE (if you want to put the comparison to GPRS / GSM) is set to be put to use in the coming CES in Las Vegas.

What exactly does HSDPA do for your mobile lifestyle?

Well for one, you can download stuff into your phone at an amazing 3.6MB per second. Seven times faster than WCDMA, HSDPA allows you to download a song in less than 10 seconds as well as DVD quality movies while you drive to work.

Now why would anyone want to do that?

I guess it makes sense now why Samsung released the micro HD-based SGH-i300 as a premonition of things to come. Because I wouldn’t be caught dead downloading high quality stuff with 9MB of internal memory.

In the future I’d love to see HSDPA implemented on Windows Mobile powered Smartphones - which seems to be the direction of things. To be quite honest I really hate the Windows Mobile Smartphone platform (they’re a stale in-between for an easy to use phone and a Windows Mobile Phone Edition PDA)- but with high speed downloads coming toward us, I think I could find a use for them - downloading on the go.