i have always thought that it seems like every other carrier markets their phones great like when you see a commercial about the actual "phone" then you look at a sprint commercial and you have no idea whats going on! sure sprint speed sounds nice but when you see ppl drawing shapes in the air with neon lights i am like WTF! i think we get better advertising from the altell commercials! that sprint guy is cool "you wont ever see fluffy again!" 😈

What's even funnier is that Alltel has managed to give Sprint an identity (albeit a bad one) in their commercials whereas Sprint fumbles over and over with their advertising, making less and less sense with each new one.

At least the old "two hundred oxen" commercials with that old Sprint guy were memorable and demonstrated to the buying public what made Sprint different and supposedly better than the other guys; clarity!

Nextel had a winning ad campaign too with Nextel.done!

Now, together, they can't seem to put forth any type of unified message that is both catchy and appeals to the audience. Instead, we're drawing imaginary "light" pictures and talking about what we used to dream about when we were kids. Who cares?
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the whole idea to this new angle in advertising, is to try and get away from the (i can't think of a better term) pissing match between all the carriers.

when you put a t-mob ad next to a vzw ad next to a at&t ad, the only difference is the name.

you constantly hear, best, better, strongest, least dropped calls, yada, yada, yada.

sprints new advertising company wanted something different. they want to set themselves apart by, instead of telling the consumers why sprint is better than the others, and instead just tell them why they want sprint.

I have commended Sprint in other posts for choosing not to belittle the other guys in their advertising and keeping a positive spin on their products and services, rather than resorting to a name-calling match with everyone.

My point is that saying you have a better product is not name-calling or mud slinging, it's smart advertising. Verizon has made a name for themselves with the "can you hear me now" slogan, which gave them the reputation of having great coverage.

AT&T is now selling their "fewest dropped calls" message, and managed to gain a little ground on Verizon as a result. Like it or not, slogans work. People remember dumb little catch phrases. Remember "Where's the beef"?

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at least sprint does not have an identiy crisis.......they just dropped the married name from their hyphenated name and just went by their maiden name.

HA HA... Wait a min... Doesnt that imply that they got a divorce 🤣

Not necessarily. Although one can only hope. But then again, there are rumors of a few extra-marital affairs

I'm sure it all started when Sprint tried to explain to Nextel that it was nothing serious. They were just flirting with Qchat and WiMax. Now that its confirmed Sprint is leaving iDen for Qchat I'm sure all hell has broken loose 😉

yeah but nextel is sprint's b*tch and is stuck living with the decision as it is too much of a p*ssy to file for a divorce.

I actually have no problem whatsoever with that aspect of Sprint's decision making. I never liked "Sprint-Nextel", and thought "Sprint Together With Nextel" should only have been temporary anyway.

My beef has been with the idea of dropping the Nextel name and branding altogether. Brand names that identify specific and unique products have been maintained by other companies for years. Xerox, synonymous with copiers. Weed Eater, synonymous with weed trimmers. Hyster, synonymous with fork lifts. Most of the aforementioned companies are actually owned by larger corporations bearing a different name.

Those companies realized that changing the name of those products would have been disastrous. At one time, Weed Eater was owned by White Conso...
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jrfdsf said:
Eventually, people get the idea that you don't know who you want to be.

i honestly think sprint is headed that way anyway. they've changed their advertising angle so many times...

no they won't sprint will suck and stuggle..until wimax comes out.