Samsung have announced the new Samsung W600, a new touchscreen mobile phone that uses new HSUPA technology that enables it to upload data at speeds of up to 5.76Mbps. HSUPA is part of the HSDPA family of protocols, but whereas HSDPA focuses on optimizing download speeds, HSUPA focuses more on upload speeds.

Obviously, downloading is seen as more of a priority than uploading, and so HSDPA phones have been around for over a year now, whereas HSUPA has seen little attention. The Samsung W600 changes all that, offering upload speeds faster than the majority of broadband connections.

In fact, 5.76Mbps is so fast, that it could easily be used as mobile Web server. The problem is convincing the buying public of exactly why you’d need such a device! Nokia tried this last year by releasing a mobile Web server for their Series 60 devices, but it was only ever released as a Beta, and Nokia had a difficult job explaining to us exactly why we’d need a mobile Web server.

Samsung haven’t even gone that far – they’ve simply released a phone with uploas speeds so fast it could be used a mobile Web server, but not actually released the server itself! Indeed, they’ve not even bothered to tell us what we could do with such fantastic upload speeds!

Still, if you’re into phone Top Trumps, having the fastest uploading phone in the world may be your bag. The fact that it comes with a 5 megapixel camera, 3″ touchscreen with haptic interface and mobile TV might also help as well!

[Source: Aving.net]