Sprint still hasn't quite learned the fine art of not getting shown up by CDMA rival Verizon for prompt releases of the hottest phones, partially on account of Verizon's tendency to lock up lucrative exclusivity agreements that last anywhere from a few months to life of the model (as is the case with the CDMA
Chocolate). Fortunately, as
foretold by our friends at Phone Scoop, Sprint's
K1m comes relatively hot on the heels of Verizon's. Thanks to a different UI and color scheme, the Sprint variant barely resembles its stablemates and it'll be interesting to see whether customers ultimately do a better job warming up to it. The Sprint K1m can belong to anyone willing to part with $200 and sign on the dotted line -- or, as Sprint likes to say, $399.99 minus $200 in "instant savings."
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
posted Nov 5th 2006 4:01PM
finally, i am getting one
Great! I have had my old Sprint phone for 2+ years and was holding off on upgrading to the Samsung A900M because of the lack of microSD slot.
The MOTOKRZR K1m has most everything the A900M has, plus microSD.
Thanks for the heads-up!
It doesn't have a QVGA screen like the A900...
But yes, it does best it in every other single way.
Interesting I just happened to drop in the Sprint store today. I was in the process of getting it when the lady said it was $199 not $139 like she originally stated. I then went and picked up a Samsung A900 and then dropped that after hearing they wanted me to pay for the phone, another 2 years in service, plus $36 bucks to transfer the phone number. That is BS. I have to call CS now.
Would a micro SD WiFi card work with this?
Can you use mp3's are ringtones on these things, or do they try to con you into paying their ridiculous fees?
Whats the difference between this new Razor model and older Razors that Sprint has released? I was actually going to switch to Sprint in the next week and would rather get an older (and much cheaper) Razor model if this new model just has useless features. The Sprint page doesn't really say.
here you go, jake:
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/compare.php?id%5B%5D=1005&id%5B%5D=953&id%5B%5D=&id%5B%5D=&id%5B%5D=
The two phones compared side-by-side. Looks like the K1m and the RZR are very similar save for the aesthetics. Meaning: you want to pay less for two year old styling, or more for contemporary styling? Otherwise, the innards look identical.
This may have things that the A900 family doesn't, but the A900 is a much nicer looking phone than any of the MOTO 4LTR series IMO. The lip on the bottom of the flip has got to go, samsung's PCS phones(excluding windows mobile, MIUI-a900m and palm devices) have a much nicer UI than any of moto's phones, and the M610 is coming out soon, which is thinner than either device(just a hair thicker than the GSM SLVR, and way thinner than the CDMA SLVR for all you 4LTR fans out there, has a small OLED external screen, which uses less battery than full color LCDs, a full sized QVGA LCD internal, A2DP, MicroSD, I think AVRCP, EDR, and a swiveling 2 megapx camera WITH FLASH.
the canary(KRZR K1m) is just a v3m with a quartz finish and external media controls. and the RAZR lip makes it ugly.