US Cellular follows Alltel's lead, deploys Samsung Freeform

If this contoured piece of QWERTY kit looks familiar, it should -- it's the same as the Freeform that came late last year to Alltel. US Cellular's version is the same thing (heck, it's even the same color) with a 1.3 megapixel camera, 2.2-inch 176 x 144 display, four-row QWERTY keyboard, and memory expansion up to 16GB via microSD, perfect for the on-board MP3 player (and if you're not a music kind of person, it'll take you a good long while to fill up 16GB worth of storage 1.3 megapixels at a time). Pricing and availability haven't yet been announced, but we'd expect it to be pretty easy on the pocketbook.

[DallasB Posted Mar 5th 2010 6:28PM]

Ugly & I'm first.

[Fubukiii Posted Mar 6th 2010 7:34AM]

Ugly but it will be a dumbphone for all, low cost i suppose, less expensive than corby txt.

[Artz86 Posted Mar 6th 2010 11:39AM]

this phone has been out for MetroPCS since last year...$79 [plus your first month] everyone eats it up like bbq chicken sprinkled w/ crack. ..

[kcipsirhc Posted Mar 6th 2010 5:22PM]

U.S. Cellular Logo on a metroPCS article? Hmmmm.....

[kcipsirhc Posted Mar 6th 2010 7:49PM]

@kcipsirhc Engadget fixed it :-)