Sprint: Smartphone Users Need to Pay $10 More
At this point this barely is news.
Otherwise, you've already been paying this $10.00/month fee, because pretty much everyone who has purchased a Sprint smartphone has purchased one of Sprint's '4G' phones which already incur the charge. And chances are you've kept the 4G radio off 90% of the time because Sprint's 4G network is so bad it makes their 3G network look good.
And in reality, nobody's left on Sprint. Nobody really wants to switch to them either because they don't consistently provide state-of-the-art phones. The only bright spot in the past two years was the Pre (the last best-in-class phone you could argue they've offered). All they've banked on since then is the Evo, a phone...
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Wow... just wow... You're serious? That phone was complete garbage; underpowered, unsupported, poorly constructed. The Pre was a mediocre idea at best, gone horribly wrong.
Sprint offers plenty of non-4G smartphones: Blackberry, Intercept/Transformer, Optimus S, etc. All of these phones now need the extra $10 fee.
This is a huge mistake on Sprints part.
2) Unlike say, the Evo, or the Blackberry, the Pre's software support has been fantastic. The OS has gotten better, as opposed to worse (Hero, anyone?)
3) The Pre is the only phone in Sprint's lineup that runs a class-competitive OS. God knows it isn't Android.
bluecoyote said:
1) The Pre's hardware wasn't good, but neither is the hardware of any other phone Sprint offers.
2) Unlike say, the Evo, or the Blackberry, the Pre's software support has been fantastic. The OS has gotten better, as opposed to worse (Hero, anyone?)
3) The Pre is the only phone in Sprint's lineup that runs a class-competitive OS. God knows it isn't Android.
Right. A class-competitive OS that nobody uses or gives a rats a$$ about.
It is certainly better than Android.
So you condemn sprint for offering the evo and in the same breath condemn the evo for being on sprint. You can't have it both ways.
Anyone who extolls the pre while condemning the evo for its battery life of all things has an agenda.
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