Alltel rolls out Samsung Hue

It's hard to get us too terribly fired up over a low-end handset (MOTOFONE notably excepted), but the Samsung SCH-R500 "Hue" is, by all appearances, a hot little number considering its $40 price on contract. For forty bills, we'd typically expect a VGA cam, 1xRTT, and not terribly much else -- but the Hue may very well be signaling a true changing of the low-end guard here by serving a 1.3 megapixel shooter, EV-DO data, and stereo frickin' Bluetooth. Add in the fact that the flip's available in five tasty interchangeable, and we'd say Alltel has a winner on its hands. Grab it now online and in store.

[Via MobileBurn]

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 18th 2007 6:04PM]

Ha, Alltel beat T-Mobile here! Wow...this device will soon show its face on T-Mobile in the next couple of months, if you guys didn't already know. Maybe there will be some upgrades come then? Who knows...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 19th 2007 7:26PM]

This phone is so cheap but so badass. lol

I was gonna get the razr V3a but I saw this one and I said "wow"

So I'm going to stick with this one xD

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 4th 2007 4:22PM]

Love the looks of this phone. Do not like how you have to navigate to get to your contacts to make a call from the phonebook. It will not work with the bluetooth in my 2007 Toyota Solara Convertible which was the only reason I bought a bluetooth phone.