The SGH-E210: Samsung does low-end fashion, too

Samsung's Ultra Edition handsets continue to amaze with each new entry, but if you look a rungs down on the pricing ladder, the selection gets a whole heck of a lot more boring. Particularly in North America, the midrange and entry-level offerings out of Korea's number 1 tend to concentrate more on familiarity and predictability than on innovation or style. Don't get us wrong, we're certain there's a large, healthy demographic for that -- but for the rest of us, we wouldn't mind putting something sweet in our pockets without shelling out a ton of coin. Enter the upcoming E210, a fabulous lookin' flip that should allegedly run around €150 (about $200) unsubsidized. The primary screen is a 160 x 120 OLED while the outside makes do with a 96 x 96 monochrome type; the 1.3 megapixel camera can capture 15fps video at 176 x 144, and microSD comes through when the 10MB of internal storage doesn't cut it. Bluetooth is always welcome, too, and though the triband GSM radio means we won't be seeing this one stateside, we can hope that it's a good sign for Samsung's low-end design direction down the pike.

[Hannah Mastre @ Nov 13th 2009 9:05PM]

could anyone tell me if they now if this phone with Telus?

[MinceyFresh @ May 25th 2007 12:23PM]

Aargh, if Samsung would have designed the Sync to look this slick, I would've bought it in a heartbeat when I was still with at&t...

[Rich @ May 25th 2007 12:37PM]

Could that possibly look any more like an LG? It looks exactly like the LG 8600.

[JC @ May 25th 2007 1:13PM]

I think that Samsung is the worst cell phone production company because they have no identity. All of there cellular designs are cheap duplications of quality companies like Nokia, Motorola, and LG. This phone looks almost identical to the Krzr K1.

[dmcgrath @ May 25th 2007 1:24PM]

Not only that, but they always show up crippled by the operators.

[Patrick @ May 25th 2007 2:00PM]

Just once, I would like to hear they are coming stateside.

[socart15 @ May 27th 2007 9:17PM]

Samsungs pretty good somtimes, but the U.S. most always gets the shaft when it comes to some of their better ones. And yeah, this is clearly a krzr k1 ripoff.

[Yong Yang @ May 28th 2007 11:36PM]

yea, samsung rocks.