Ok, I luv
Apple.com products, I've been a user of that brand for about 15years, my good friend owns a mac store, called The Mac Guy's, Kiapet.com was a featured .mac profile 1 of 7 for a few years, and I LUV my 12" G4 laptop, iweb the software is the best thing since sliced bread ! Now with all that out of the way I also want to say, I really don't care for Sprint they screwed me yrs ago for $800, I had AT&T Wireless for many many years and they were great, but when the 1,000min for $39 (Tmobile) came out I jumped ship as the $99 unlimited was not something I really needed.
Now this post will actually be TWO parts, 1.0 will be me just doing some basic views based off of what I have seen on TV and online. Part 2 I will go to stores and try the phones in person then report my 2 cents worth!
OK here's what I have seen on TV, the iphone is $200 ish, you have to pay for text, web etc.. I've hear figures about it being pretty expensive. Sprint has a new phone by Samsung called the Instinct, it seams to do about all the iphone does, except it is $99 a month unlimited, everything. Pretty much a no brainer if you ask me, along with some type of Mobile TV service included, not that I want to watch TV on a tiny screen, but the text (iphone can't send pict text messages to other phones) emails and surfing the web I would think seams to be mostly what people want !
iphone is $199 or $299 and the plan is $129 unlimited, then extra $20 if you want Text, total of $149.00 a month minus the extra taxes etc. this equals $1,788.00 a yr. Not counting taxes etc.
instinct is $129.00 and the plan is $99.00 unlimited everything total of $1,188.00 a year, saving $600.00 Not counting taxes etc.
Now if you want to check out direct comparison of the two phones
click here, keep in mind both phones are NOT apples to apples, but you will notice the apple iphone falls short in many areas, the main area I see being, the fact that you CANNOT change your battery in the iphones, and the samsung you can ( I have a T509 samsung now for yrs and it's a great tiny phone served me well and I will keep until it dies) the other thing, the instinct does video ! No I will have to say, both phones to me are weak in the camera area as they both have a horrible 2meg camera, come on, 4-8meg would be nice, then I wouldn't have to carry my camera with me 24/7, I also would luv if samsung or apple made them waterproof like my Olympus 770 SW, it is very easy for them to do, but they want to sell more phones so I see this NEVER happening. No back from my rant, don't get me wrong, the iphone must be good, I just think people are like lemmings at times and just follow without doing there research. I have to say many years ago I was on pacbell cell, then went to LA Cellular when I moved back to OC, then I was on a rep trip in AZ saw a billboard that said, Cell NO long distance NO roaming charges, I was like wth, it was AT&T wireless, so I called the number, and they said well you have to have an AZ number I said isn't there any CA numbers, they said well I see Ventura, that's a 818 number I said, I don't care, hell I'm not paying any roaming or long distance so big deal. I signed on the spot and it must have taken 2-3yrs before I saw anyone else I knew sign up for the same type deal, people just don't like to change I guess. The best move I made, I can only imagine how much I saved over the years. so 5-6yrs ago I changed again, went to T-Mobile at $39 a month as I don't travel so much any more, and you can't beat the price. It runs on the AT&T towers so same system.
OK back to iphone hype or not, I say save yourself a ton of money and go check the samsung instinct then compare to the iphone and see what you come up with, let me know ! I will be store window shopping this week and let ya know what I find out in person !
Rene Bruce
ps. below are some helpful links
http://www.apple.com/http://www.instinct-samsung.com/
http://www.samsunginstinct.com/
