Loading ...There’s been some confusion over the past 24hrs regarding which plans Sprint deem are eligible for use with their new Samsung Instinct touchscreen handset, stemming from smallprint on the phone’s official site that states “purchase of the Instinct requires activation on an Everything plan“. Engadget, in a post since taken down, seemingly forgot that Sprint’s $100 ‘Simply Everything’ plan is not the only such tariff the carrier offers; while I’m sure Sprint would love for you to sign up to two years of that, the cheapest eligible plan is in fact the $69.99 ‘Simply Everything’ 450, which offers 450 bundled minutes and unlimited everything else (data, messaging, etc.).
While that’s ten bucks more than AT&T’s cheapest iPhone plan, that offering lacks unlimited messaging (200 SMS messages are bundled) and unlimited night/weekend calls (you get 5,000 minutes). Adding unlimited SMS to an iPhone would cost an extra $20/mo.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:23 am
It’s about time that someone finally offered a truly all in one phone plan.
Props to sprint for doing this. Memo to Verizon & AT+T get off your high horse
and make a competitve plan available, in fact you both need to MATCH THIS PLAN!! NO MORE EXCUSES !!!! What are you afraid of?? Making your customers happy? Expanding your market share ? And as for Verizon you need to get this phone NOW !!!!!! Stop using General Motors Dinosaur Marketing Strategy. Simply put you guys bring out whatever product you want and not what your customers want when they want it.
April 6th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Not true!
I emailed dan@sprint.com and here is their response::
Dear ****,
I definitely understand your concerns, because you and I are very similar. I have a phone addiction too. To clarify with you, when you read the information on the new Samsung Instinct phone it is possible for you to misconceive the information because I did myself. The way the information was put together on the Instinct phone, makes it seem like you do have to have the Simply Everything plan, but you don?t. It?s just our way of advertising the Simply Everything plan and because of all the features the phone has to offer it would be best for our customers who decide to purchase the Instinct phone to get one of the simply everything plans. This would ensure that they didn?t have to worry about over charges. So because you are one of the fortunate customers who has a SERO plan, (which is very similar to some our SimplyEverything plans) you do not have to change you plan to one of our Simply Everything plans. I hope this email has stopped your dreams from being crushed. Thank you again for contacting Sprint. We appreciate your business. Please feel free to use dan@sprint.com whenever you have any other questions or comments. Thank you again for contacting Sprint. We appreciate your business.
Sincerely,
Mario ******
757-223-****
dan@sprint.com
Sprint
Use your instincts and come to papa! Can’t wait until June!
April 7th, 2008 at 12:28 am
My Sprint Contract expires in July. I was going to switch to AT&T for iPhone. I have been a Sprint customer since 1999 and never really had any problem with them. If I can get Sprint Instinct for at least $100-150 less than the iPhone (I am an existing customer so I don’t get the new line activation deal and $150 discount for existing customer is much lower than discount for new line activation), I might stay.
May 7th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
what is the instinct going to cost?