Sprint Launches GSM/CDMA Smartphone from Samsung
Another Sprint Blunder!!
These phones (CDMA/GSM combo) are such a niche device.
The Samsung ip830w was a complete failure. The only reason the BB 8830 does well is because it's a Blackberry and the first to Sprint with a trackball, external memory, and voice dialing.
I don't know one person who makes a buying decision on a device based on the idea of overseas roaming capabilites. Not to say that those people aren't out there, but it is quite a small demographic.
Sprint needs to start appealing to the masses if they are going to make any type of move in the right direction
The Samsung ip830w was a complete failure. The only reason the BB 8830 does well is because it's a Blackberry and the first to Sprint with a trackball, external memory, and voice dialing.
I don't know one person who makes a buying decision on a device based on the idea of overseas roaming capabilites. Not to say that those people aren't out there, but it is quite a small demographic.
Sprint needs to start appealing to the masses if they are going to make any type of move in the right direction
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I somewhat agree with you, but there's quite of few people who like their BlackJack and Blackjack II's on AT&T and wish to stay with Sprint. The GSM side to them is an afterthought. Other complaints is it doesn't support the US GSM radios, to me if I was on Sprint would be a very minor issue, why would I want to pay either AT&T or TM roaming fees?
Usually Sprint doesn't lock their combo phones unlike VZW who is partly owned by Vodafone.
Usually Sprint doesn't lock their combo phones unlike VZW who is partly owned by Vodafone.
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Sprint offers more PDA phone options then anyone else. There is something for everyone. The Centro, the 755p, the Mogul, the Touch, the Pearl, the 8830, the MOT Q9C and now the Ace. And no one out there can match Sprint's data service, speeds or features. I think Sprint needs some work on the regular phones because not many of them are that cool even though they do a lot, but as far as the PDA side of things they KILL everyone else.
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This is a key move to get business accounts. Our company standardizes on VZW, and people are defecting because we have no mobile service in Europe and the smartphone options suck (no blackberry servers). I'm almost ready to switch to AT&T because of the roaming issue, hopefully vzw will get a decent smartphone with cdma/gsm.
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