Sprint intros Samsung's IP-A790 worldphone
By Peter Rojas 
posted Feb 25th 2005 5:12PM
posted Feb 25th 2005 5:12PM
Oh yeah, this one almost slipped by us: Verizon's had this handset for months, but Sprint finally launched the IP-A790, Samsung's quad-band worldphone that uses CDMA when you're here in the States and GSM when you're kicking it overseas. This one's pretty much aimed exclusively at jetsetters and business travelers, which works out well because they're probably the only people willing to shell out $550 for a phone that has hardly any other features.
It adds MIDP 2.0 over the Verizon SCH version
I bought my Nokia 6310i outright from AT&T but it was worth it to make the phone my property instead of AT&T's. It cost me ~$175 at the time. I bought it to have a phone that worked overseas while I was in the Navy and also for it's ability to talk to my computer and PDA. It doesn't do too many other tricks but what it does it does well, maybe that's the idea behind this phone. That's what I shop for in a phone, feature bloat adds more room for bugs as well as menu clutter. Over priced sure. If the quality justifies it for some people that's fine by me.