According to an announcement made by Sprint today, the new Samsung Instinct has seen record sales since the its launch last Friday. This comes just two weeks before Apple's second generation 3G iPhone release takes place.
Dubbed the "iPhone killer" when it was first announced at CTIA 2008 in April, the Samsung Instinct only received heavy media attention just days before launch, when Sprint decided to cut the Instinct's price from $199 to $129, in an effort to compete with the iPhone and grab some sales.
Looks like it worked. No numbers were revealed as of yet, but Sprint is happy with the results, so it must mean they're doing good.
Sprint's Samsung Instinct comes packed with a 2.0 megapixel camera with video recording, POP3 email, Visual Voicemail, microSD card slot for up to 8GB of extra memory and a 2GB microSD card in the box, Bluetooth 2.0 and a full HTML browser. You can pick up the Instinct from Sprint fro $129 with a 2 year contract.
T-Mobile USA introduced this week a new $10 internet phone service called T-Mobile @Home, which lets customers place unlimited nationwide calls with their landline phones over broadband.
The service will also be compatible with HotSpot@Home, which uses a Wi-Fi router to handle calls from Wi-Fi enabled T-Mobile phones when in range, and the T-Mobile's cellular network. This way, customers can use their mobile phones at home without reducing their mobile minutes.
T-Mobile also said that their new service was a huge success in test markets like Dallas and Seattle where 97% of all customers who qualified switched to T-Mobile @Home.
T-Mobile's new @Home service, will officially launch on July 2 and will be an add-on service for current T-Mobile mobile phone subscribers. It also requires a $50 router, sold separately by T-Mobile.
T-Mobile and Motorola today announced the launch of the highly anticipated ROKR E8 music phone. Motorola first introduced the E8 at CES 2008 back in January and we haven't heard anything since.
The cool feature about this phone is the ModeShift technology, which allows users to switch the ROKR's controls from a music player to a phone or to a camera.
The E8 also comes equipped with haptics technology, which was already introduced in the Samsung Instinct. This feature provides a tactile feedback when the screen is touched, giving the user a traditional feel and confirmation that the key was pressed.
Other features of the MOTOROKR E8 include a 2.0" QVGA (240x320 pixels) 262k TFT display, a 2.0 megapixel camera with 8x zoom, video recording, media player, 2GB internal memory, card slot for external memory support of up to 4GB, 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, stereo Bluetooth with A2DP and airplane mode.
T-Mobile will start shipping the Motorola ROKR E8 on July 7th for $199.99 with a 2 year contract.
Just days before the official launch of the Instinct, Sprint decided to slash its price from $199 to $129. No reason was given for this price drop, but we could somehow suspect that it has something to do with Apple's new 3G iPhone, which has a starting price of $199. Don't you just love competition?
Let's recap the features of the Samsung Instinct: a 2.0 megapixel camera with camcorder, Visual Voicemail, POP3 email, microSD card slot (up to 8GB) and 2GB microSD card in the box, Bluetooth 2.0 and a full HTML browser.
So if you're planning on an Instinct, go grab it this Friday for $129.99 with a new 2 year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate.
The last and most significant announcement made today by Sony Ericsson was the introduction of their latest Cyber-Shot handsetm the Sony Ericsson C905, which features a stunning 8.1 megapixel camera with Xenon camera flash, 16x of digital zoom, auto-focus, smart contrast, image stabilizer and video recording and playback.
Memory wise, the C905 comes equipped with 160MB of internal memory. The good news is that Sony Ericsson packed in a 2GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) card in the box to go with it.
The C905 also features a large 2.4 inch 262k color TFT scratch-resistant mineral glass display, Wi-Fi, GPS and aGPS, IM, media player, FM radio and stereo Bluetooth with A2DP
Sony Ericsson will start shipping the C905 Cyber-Shot in Night Black, Ice Silver and Copper Gold starting Q4 2008.
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