sph-m520
Latest
Hands-on with the Samsung M520 for Sprint
We've had a chance to screw around with Sprint's just-announced M520 slider from Samsung, and in brief, it's exactly what a $50 phone should be: solid, attractive, and svelte. Before we even turned it on for the first time, we noticed that the phone actually has a very premium appearance on account of a chromed front that looks good without being tacky or overdone (though we can imagine there are some folks out there who wouldn't be caught dead with even the smallest touch of shiny on their handset). It's thin, the interface is attractive and snappy, and the whole package really does feel solid; don't get us wrong, there's plenty of plastic here, but you wouldn't know it from the slide mechanism's slick feel. Check out the whole gallery below.%Gallery-16278%
Samsung m520 slider in the mix for Sprint
Awesome, another totally generic slider. Needless to say, we're geeked -- you? Seriously, at 13mm thick, we can't even talk about how amazingly thin the m520 is, because it's not. EV-DO, stereo Bluetooth, 1.3 megapixel camera, you know the drill. phoneArena says the m520 is destined for Sprint's shelves in the not too distant future; Qwest already has it for $90 after rebates on contract, so we'd imagine Sprint's pricing will end up right in the same range. We don't have a release date just yet, but honestly, that's just fine by us.
