Samsung offers new HSUPA

High-Speed Uplink Packet Access(HSUPA) aims to offer mobile broadband for cellular phones. Conventional 3G offers upload and download speeds of around 384Kbps, whereas HSUPA (High-Speed Uplink Packet Access) allows upload speeds to 2Mbps. Samsung has joined the league of phone-makers offering HSUPA by launching its very first handset that supports this technology. Called the SCH-M470, the phone is a slider-type handset and features a 2 megapixel camera.
Along with HSUPA, the phone promises to offer efficient Wi-Fi connectivity, Bluetooth 2.0 support, video-calling, push-button email, and Google search functions. The phone is compatible with Windows Mobile. Gartner, a market research firm, has predicted that global HSUPA mobile phone market would grow from 77 million units in this year to 280 million units in 2009, and 600 million units in 2010.