Sprint Nextel Corp. wants to regain the 3 million customers it has lost this year (probably due to the iPhone) with the help of a new Android phone. It is ready to release a phone based on Google’s operating system within a year, and is hoping that a high-profile handset might help get back those lost customers. It might be too little, too late, but we’ll soon find out.
Sprint is the largest service provider supporting Android, and a release on their network will make it a larger player in the smartphone market, which is projected to double to almost 340 million units by 2012.
I have been a Sprint customer for over 6 years and they keep improving. I love the Simply Everything plan and use a ton of data with my HTC Touch. I want a Touch Pro and when Android matures I may jump ship, depends on winmo 6.5. Their network is fast and reliable now and I have no problems.
I figure all cell companies suck but Sprint is the least sucky for me. Verizon is expensive as is AT&T and T Mobile is too slow.
I agree with RedMonkey, I’ve been on Sprint for years and have never had much issue with them. I’ve been looking at the Instinct for a while and will probably get one when I have some extra cash. As for the Android, I’ve played with a T-Mobile one and wasn’t very impressed with it, but if it improves I’d consider it as an option.
AT&T gets to gouge the market because of their iphone exclusivity. Even with iphone’s $100 for unlimited calls and another $30 for data, I would have bought it. It’s that extra $5 for 200 text messages that was so insulting that made me stay with sprint. Sprint still has the best plans but their phones are inferior by far. The instinct and touch as so cluncky compared with iphone in terms of ui. If sprints android is not up to par, I definitely will be leaving.