Dutch wrote:
> "Sprint Nextel showed off a new iPhone look-alike from Samsung on
> Tuesday at the CTIA conference in Las Vegas that the operator says
> allows much faster data access then the Apple phone."
>
> "The Instinct, co-developed by Sprint and Samsung, looks similar to the
> iPhone, including a touch screen. Unlike the iPhone, however, it
> includes GPS (Global Positioning System) and runs on Sprint¢s high-speed
> EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) Revision A network. Sprint¢s network
> offers an average data download rate as high as 1.4Mbps. By contrast,
> EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution), which the iPhone operates
> on via AT&T¢s network, usually offers less than 200k bps throughput."

It appears as if Sprint forgot to include WiFi.

It's very useful to have WiFi when traveling, and the data rates are
higher. One reason so many iPhones have been unlocked is because a lot
of users just want to use them on WiFi networks (partly because Edge is
so slow, but also because they don't want to sign up for an expensive
data plan).

I hope Sprint survives, but at this juncture they have one of the worst
networks (only T-Mobile is worse) and the worst selection of handsets.
This is what's causing their incredibly high churn, not customer service
problems.