Sprint Products

We always will try to carry a "free phone" or at least nearly free after rebate at About Wireless.  This low price will be only for new activation accounts or for two year upgrades.  Nowadays even these low priced phones are Bluetooth compatible and may even have a simple camera.

A low priced phone from a quality manufacturer Sanyo - has class, has the basics and it includes Bluetooth and even a camera!  Two color choices:  red and black.  This is a great phone for people who just want a great phone that talks and listens well and does not confuse.  Big letters for dialing, and loud ring tone - make this phone great at the basics.

A low priced phone from Sanyo that has bluetooth and simple camera as the above, but also adds a full a qwerty keyboard for ease of texting.  Two color choices:  blue and pink.

The new Sanyo Eclipse that combines a fine phone with high speed data (EVDO).  This addition of high speed data would allow you (with the right Sprint package) can do Sprint TV and also navigation.  A power phone.

The Rumor - the forerunner of this Rumor2 at Sprint - began the super texting phones for Sprint.  With its full pull out qwerty keyboard, this phone makes texting both easy and fun.  The LG Rumor was one of the most successful and copied phones of all time.  Note that this phone is great for talking and texting, but does not have high speed data.  It used 1xrtt for data and not EVDO and hence this phone will not be fast for data - and hence will not do TV or navigation well.  But for those who just want talk and text - not a bad phone at all to consider.

First came the LG Rumor with the roll out full qwerty text.  Its good points were that it was great for texting.  However, it could do little else.  Samsung then came out with the rant that allowed high speed data (EVDO) and a better camera.  Now the Rant is a power phone, that with the right Sprint plan can do TV or navigation as well.

Samsung has taken the Rant one better with the exclaim - which combines the power of two previous Samsung phones - the rant with a pull out full qwerty keyboard and also the previous Samsung 520 which had a pull out number board for phone calls.  So, one can pull out the number pad for phone calls, or the full keyboard for text.  And it is a power phone, of course, as the rant was with high speed data and a great camera.   Comes in three colors:  blueberry, raspberry and white.

Full qwerty keyboard, 2.0 megapixel camera, stereo bluetooth.  In some ways this seems the Samsung version of the LG Lotus.  This phone is also for the ecology conscious, since $2 of the sale goes to the The Nature Conservancy's Adopt an Acre® program.  Comes in green and blue.

This is the latest and maybe the greatest of the qwerty keyboard texting phones.  First came the LG Rumor with a pull out qwerty keyboard - followed at some point by the LG Rumor 2 with similar specs, then the Samsung Rant which took that concept and added high speed data and a better camera followed by the Samsung Exclaim with that same high speed data and better camera.  But now, Sanyo comes along with a full qwerty keyboard inside with a flip top cover - no pull out - with a top that has a touch screen dial pad.  One has to say hmm... maybe this is the power with a simpler cover, so maybe more reliable?  And it is done by Sanyo with generally very good radio telephone reception.

There are phones - which are normally easy to use - and then PDAs which give more capabilities like email and more but are harder to use.  At times there comes along a phone that tries to bridge that gap giving some PDA features as email and a full qwerty keyboard, but tries to keep phone calls simple.  Such is the full power LG Lotus.  Comes in three colors - black, red and purple.

When is a Nextel phone not a Nextel?  When it is a Sprint Q chat phones.  The Sanyo pro 700 has some of the famous Nextel features of push to talk two way radio plus the ruggedness of military specs.  And it uses the Sprint system which within the US states will have even more possibility of phone reception.  The thing to keep in mind with this phone is that while it can call Mexico, taking the phone into Mexico directly will not have good results.  Only Nextel phones themselves within Sprint make calls well inside Mexico borders.

The Sprint touch screen phone (along with the Palm Pre) that answers the iphone popularity.  A large screen combined with touch capability combined with high speed data make this both a powerful and hi-tech phone.  This phone has a large fan club.  Also, however, check out the Palm Pre.

The very popular Blackberry business line of PDAs made by Research in Motion (RIM) comes out with a so called "civilian" model.   A housebroken blackberry for those conscious of style and small size.  The Curve is incredibly popular and is very high power yet low priced for new customers or two year upgrades.  For those who want to add the power of email, easy texting, calendar and more business options to their phone, this is a great way to go.  Also includes camera.  Now this great selling PDA comes in three colors:  black, red and orange.  I guess they call orange "inferno".  :)

Blackberry had two popular phones - the Curve 8330 above mostly for consumers and the 8830 the world phone that works not only in the US but also Europe, and many places in Asia (but not Japan).  But the 8830 world phone had no camera.  So, this is the phone that combines it all together - the consumer greatness of the curve, the world phone abilities of the 8830 and the new software to make it faster and more powerful.  Add a new and improved keyboard that is easier on the fingers, and you have the new TOUR.

This phone is a great suggestion for those who want a power phone.  While the iphone turned a lot of heads, one might ask, where did those inventors go who did the iphone on the super slow one generation behind ATT system?  The answer is that they went to Palm and began work on a new phone even better than the iphone but this time on a fast Sprint system - that was 3G long before ATT could even spell 3G.  This phone in my mind is simply smart.  The biggest issue with touch screens is the keyboard with small letters.  Often when you might press a "w" you can get a "d" or other letter since touch screens have difficulty in precise small areas.  This phone is smart enough to have both a touch screen AND a keyboard, eliminating that issue.  It is also the wave of the future since it works with google contact and calendar systems and not the old Microsoft stuff (hope Bill Gates is not reading this).  Those who have been following the career of google know it to be at the top of its game, and that is the system also that this phone wants to synchronize with.  If you are a phone enthusiast, who wants hi tech from the best, this is one of the phones you should consider.

Look out world, here comes the new android system from Google that arrives on an HTC phone for a second generation touch screen.  Power plus a touch screen that has now evolved into a more accurate touch screen.  This phone has power.  In addition to power, it will have fun - it will have applications.  Consider that while iPhone claims many applications - that iPhone is only made via one place - Apple.  So once again as in their computers, Apple does it again and keeps their system locked up.  Well android (owned by Google) lets many companies use their system - as the PC did for computers.  Imagine how much software and applications will be done for this android system - with products made by many companies - HTC, Samsung, Motorola, and expect more as time goes on.  We can expect applications and fun galore.

Yes, an android phone that of course therefore is somewhat similar to the HTC hero above.  The Samsung Moment also has a pull out full qwerty keyboard for those who want to text that still may not trust soft keyboards on a touch screen.  So then - how does this compare with the HTC hero?  It is a question of taste.  This phone has the keyboard and therefore we all know it will do texting easily.  On the other hand, the HTC Hero is perhaps half the size and weight and has an overlay software program on its android system that adds some features.  Hard to choose between the two - even for me.

Sprint is really a later generation digital than most other carriers.  It uses CDMA - a cellular technique that is higher bandwidth than most other cellular companies.  With that some Sprint phones can do Sprint TV.  What can it's cards do for your laptop - high speed data.  Higher speed than you can get with carriers that do not have CDMA.  The data system is called EVDO.  What it means is "fast data".

The card shown here is the Novatel Wireless S720 pcmcia card that can slide into a laptop.  We also carry the USB version for greater utility, which can be made by either Novatel Wireless or Sierra Wireless - two fine data companies.  These two companies pioneered cellular data in the US for laptops and continue to bring innovation to this important field.  Both are fine companies.

This is an area Sprint Wireless system that can be used for up to five computer users at one time 9or simply 5 wi fi devices.  So it combines the ability to get high speed DSL speed data on the Sprint system with that of a small router to allow multiple computer connections easily.   We know several people trying to do this by buying multiple boxes.  This is one simple box - with power for 5 nearby people.