Samsung Moment for Sprint which came out yesterday is available for Sprint SERO as of the time of this post. I called three different sprint customer representatives and got confirmation that Samsung Moment is an eligible phone on Sprint SERO, while the Palm Pre, HTC Hero, and Samsung Instinct are not. Also on the sprint.com website, if you try to upgrade the phone, you do not receive the "you may need to change your plan" message as you do with the other previously mentioned phones. Hopefully activation will go through, I just ordered the phone five minutes ago and have my fingers crossed.
UPDATE #1 Phone shipped today morning. I understand the pessimism, but I had to try it. My old treo 755p barely resembles a phone anymore, and I can't justify forking up $350 for the TP2
UPDATE #2 Activation is a no go. Sorry for wasting time and raising expectations. But confirmed again that Sprint has the worst customer service department I've ever dealt with.
Message edited by: manuchan89 on 2009-11-04 21:31:49 CST
sussig said:glitch maybe ? sprint may let you have it now and then call you back to either get you to upgrade your plan or return the phone
definitely not a glitch. sprint will never PREVENT you from buying a new phone. but this phone WILL require your SERO plan to get upgraded. its all a big plan to remove as many SERO plans form their system as they can.
that being said, SERO is a good deal, but you can get a cheaper plan:
get 4 trustworthy friends that rarely call landlines during the day
get a 1600 minute EPRP family plan (unlimited mobile calling, any phone allowed) for $155/mo or $31/mo/person
attempt to get a corp discount applied via ecare/echat (officially not allowed, but definitely been done before)
If you can pull off a 25% corp discount, you're paying $23.25/mo/person for unlimited data/text on any webOS/android phone.
Message edited by: atsang on 2009-11-02 17:37:03 CST
atsang said:sussig said:glitch maybe ? sprint may let you have it now and then call you back to either get you to upgrade your plan or return the phone
definitely not a glitch. sprint will never PREVENT you from buying a new phone. but this phone WILL require your SERO plan to get upgraded. its all a big plan to remove as many SERO plans form their system as they can.
that being said, SERO is a good deal, but you can get a cheaper plan:
get 4 trustworthy friends that rarely call landlines during the day
get a 1600 minute EPRP family plan (unlimited mobile calling, any phone allowed) for $155/mo or $31/mo/person
attempt to get a corp discount applied via ecare/echat (officially not allowed, but definitely been done before)
If you can pull off a 25% corp discount, you're paying $23.25/mo/person for unlimited data/text on any webOS/android phone.
The "4 trustworthy friends" plan has a good chance of not working in the long run. What if one person ends up not being so trustworthy and uses all the minutes? It will be a pain in the ass to deal with. Stick with family members if you do this, preferably immediate family members.
Message edited by: namlook on 2009-11-02 17:49:18 CST
atsang said:sussig said:glitch maybe ? sprint may let you have it now and then call you back to either get you to upgrade your plan or return the phone
definitely not a glitch. sprint will never PREVENT you from buying a new phone. but this phone WILL require your SERO plan to get upgraded. its all a big plan to remove as many SERO plans form their system as they can.
that being said, SERO is a good deal, but you can get a cheaper plan:
get 4 trustworthy friends that rarely call landlines during the day
get a 1600 minute EPRP family plan (unlimited mobile calling, any phone allowed) for $155/mo or $31/mo/person
attempt to get a corp discount applied via ecare/echat (officially not allowed, but definitely been done before)
If you can pull off a 25% corp discount, you're paying $23.25/mo/person for unlimited data/text on any webOS/android phone.
Good idea, but I would modify it like this:
A) Get 4 family members who are: a) paying more than $30 for less feautures b) paying ~$60 for the same feautures
B) Offer to be in "plan administrator" (for a small fee of course)
C) Continue as above but divide bill by 4.
D) Save each family member money
E) Get yourself free cell phone service
Grok said:vladgur said:$155/mo != $31/mo/pp * 4
Think he means... 155 / 4 friends = friends foot the bill for you.
what he said
Message edited by: ppsamant on 2009-11-02 18:57:20 CST
With a decent CPU I thought Moment would be great, but was greatly disappointed at how slow it was loading up apps and websites. Not sure if Android 2.0 would help (or when).
Hero runs better but touch screen keys don't work with people with big fingers and no short finger nails.
Tried Moto DROID and it's faster than Moment, and types better than Hero, but not sure if it offers enough benefits to defect $30 SERO for Verizon.
never going to fly. i would love it if it did, but i am pretty sure there is no chance. It has the same plan upgrade message online that pre and hero have.
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