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Samsung Spring Preview

In a typical display of "Europe always gets the cooler phones", Samsung was showing off its first two HSDPA phones side-by-side in a special part of their booth. The ZX20 is the one for the U.S., while the Z560 is the one for Europe.

Z560 / ZX20

The Z560 is a very thin, sleek phone with a 2 megapixel camera, huge, gorgeous main display, great full-color OLED outer display, and slick touch controls on the outside for controlling music.

The ZX20, on the other hand, is pretty much just an HSDPA version of the ZX10, a very unremarkable - almost low-end - 3G phone that Cingular is expected to launch this month. The ZX20 is a bit thick, and has an annoying stub antenna.

It's great to see the U.S. finally get ahead on something with Cingular being first in the world to launch an HSDPA network. But it's also very frustrating to have such relatively crappy phones available for it. It's puzzling why Cingular doesn't seem to want spiffy phones like the Z560 to showcase what its new HSDPA network can do.

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