So close...and yet so far - a phone with an MP3 player on the back

Samsung has released its Upstage II phone that has a really elegant integration of a cellphone and mp3 player.

Now if only the EkaPad keypad could be integrated with a device similar to this, you could have full text entry and navigation capability. This would enable much more efficient SMS and text messaging, contact and calendar entry, as well as discrete note taking that could be emailed and synchronized with a desktop/laptop PC. Your phone truly would be a computing device that could further marginalize the PDA market.

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