I love how they jack the price up sky high and then give instant and mail in "rebates", a $251 price tag and 2 years of slavery. Thank you sprint for your generosity.
I feel ya onelove, but from where I'm standing, at least for the time being, Sprint is the lesser of 3 evils. Verizon wants to control the internet world with an iron fist, AT&T will try to do the same thing, and screws over their customers just as much pricing-wise. Granted, Sprint would probably be doing all this if they had the funds and resources, but alas they're behind Verizon and AT&T in terms of worth, so I'll stick with the weaker, and thus the less evil of the three.
I switched to a Centro and hate it ... tiny keyboard ... tiny screen ... slow ATT data ... lame almost unusable o/s ... too bad we can't put Windows Mobile on it ... it's so much more friendly and shows next appointments and emails and alerts on the main screen .. alerts always disappear on my Centro when a button is accidentally pressed even when the buttons are "locked".
I should have waited for the new Windows Mobile Treos. :(
I bought two Treo 800w from telesales today and I tried to lead the sales associate to provide me with additional incentives to purchase the phones. She never got my clues, so once I was approved I just asked that I was still thinking about getting iPhones at $199 each and was there any additonal discounts available. She said she would ask her supervisor put me on hold for 25 sec. and came back with a $50 credit to each line once billing started. So I paid $349 x 2 and I will receive $200 mail in rebates and $100 service credit. So when all is said and done I will have paid $400 total plus $12 s/h. Oh yeah ask to have the activation fees removed bring up if you were to purchase online they waive the activation fees (some people have said that this didn't work for them). There was no hard negotiating I just had to ask for additional. Although to get these results you should probably act while the new iPhone frenzy is fresh.
@Chris Are: I agree. Not to mention that they have the fastest 3g network in a lot of places (including where I live) and charge the least of the big three for unlimited 3g data ($15/month). That isn't to say I wouldn't switch if someone else beat them at this game. I just haven't seen it yet. So far I've had incredibly little trouble with them and I've used the service since 2003 at least.
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I will stick with my palm centro. I can't stand winmo.
I love how they jack the price up sky high and then give instant and mail in "rebates", a $251 price tag and 2 years of slavery. Thank you sprint for your generosity.
It's $350 to walk out the door with it.
Then you wait.
THAT'S what the potential customer will see.
I feel ya onelove, but from where I'm standing, at least for the time being, Sprint is the lesser of 3 evils. Verizon wants to control the internet world with an iron fist, AT&T will try to do the same thing, and screws over their customers just as much pricing-wise. Granted, Sprint would probably be doing all this if they had the funds and resources, but alas they're behind Verizon and AT&T in terms of worth, so I'll stick with the weaker, and thus the less evil of the three.
I switched to a Centro and hate it ... tiny keyboard ... tiny screen ... slow ATT data ... lame almost unusable o/s ... too bad we can't put Windows Mobile on it ... it's so much more friendly and shows next appointments and emails and alerts on the main screen .. alerts always disappear on my Centro when a button is accidentally pressed even when the buttons are "locked".
I should have waited for the new Windows Mobile Treos. :(
I bought two Treo 800w from telesales today and I tried to lead the sales associate to provide me with additional incentives to purchase the phones. She never got my clues, so once I was approved I just asked that I was still thinking about getting iPhones at $199 each and was there any additonal discounts available. She said she would ask her supervisor put me on hold for 25 sec. and came back with a $50 credit to each line once billing started. So I paid $349 x 2 and I will receive $200 mail in rebates and $100 service credit. So when all is said and done I will have paid $400 total plus $12 s/h. Oh yeah ask to have the activation fees removed bring up if you were to purchase online they waive the activation fees (some people have said that this didn't work for them). There was no hard negotiating I just had to ask for additional. Although to get these results you should probably act while the new iPhone frenzy is fresh.
@Chris Are: I agree. Not to mention that they have the fastest 3g network in a lot of places (including where I live) and charge the least of the big three for unlimited 3g data ($15/month). That isn't to say I wouldn't switch if someone else beat them at this game. I just haven't seen it yet. So far I've had incredibly little trouble with them and I've used the service since 2003 at least.