Thursday, May 18, 2006
Sprint's Windows Mobile "Attack Plan", including Samsung's i770?
Posted by Janak Parekh in "THOUGHT" @ 08:00 AM
"Sprint Nextel is gearing up to have the most aggressive Windows Mobile lineup ever. We'll cover their entire rundown of global, Smartphone, and Phone Edition devices you've never heard of before...We can confirm that Sprint will pick up two devices previously exclusive to Verizon, the Treo 700w and Samsung i830. The Treo 700w will be released immediately upon the end of Verizon's exclusivity agreement at the end of June. The Samsung i830 is expected internally at Sprint to ship before that...Sprint will also target exclusive devices to begin to attract customers from other carriers. We can confirm Sprint intends is looking into two competitors to the Q being developed by Samsung and Pantech...The most likely candidate reported from sources inside the wireless carrier is a CDMA version of the Samsung i770, a flip-phone that runs Windows Mobile Phone Edition, though provides a flip-phone look and QWERTY keyboard similar to the BlackBerry 7100 series."
This article is self-proclaimed to be full of unsubstantiated rumors, so take it for what you will. ;) However, the prospects are tempting. Verizon's occupied the more visible position with Windows Mobile devices as of late, so it's exciting to see the prospect that new CDMA WM devices, including the i770 -- which Darius reported on earlier this week -- might make it to Sprint.
This article is self-proclaimed to be full of unsubstantiated rumors, so take it for what you will. ;) However, the prospects are tempting. Verizon's occupied the more visible position with Windows Mobile devices as of late, so it's exciting to see the prospect that new CDMA WM devices, including the i770 -- which Darius reported on earlier this week -- might make it to Sprint.
