This can't be sprint's biggest concern. They still view this as a business phone, after all.

And yeah, sprint will keep my business as long as they keep giving away data. I don't care what the phone looks like as long as it gets me access to unlimited wireless data for $10-$15/mo. The 6700 does, the 6800 will. Both will beat the living crap out of the iPhone for wireless data access. Works for me, my guess it works for most folks on Sprint.[/quote]

I would have to say yes and no. I think that sometime readers of this board can have a case of tunnel vision and think a successful carrier means one who has the lowest plans and highest tech. In reality most cell phone companies make money from big long lasting accounts and ones that don't use lots of features. Your grandmother who never uses her cell phone and just pays the plan month after month would probably be the bigger loss than most of us as far as overall profitable customer.

However on the other hand many companies go out of business when their cash cows are gone. The non tech cell phones and plans are now commodity items. I judge technology acceptance by who buys them. When I see people who barely can use a computer by a treo 650 or PPC 6700 what does that tell you? The phone is aimed at businesses but you have all these people that don't know how to use it (don't even know about data plans etc...) buy it. I'll do a quick survey. I personally know about 15 people with the 6700. Only two of them will probably ever visit this site. Only two of them bought the phone for work. The rest both saw mine and thought they would like it or just bought it to text. Those are the cash cows that will leave sprint for the business silly/consumer smart iPhone.

Then you have the two left over us tech guys. I won't buy an iphone, I won't switch to ATT for the 8525 because the data on ATT is too much. But I will switch if all sprint has to offer is the 6800 in October and if i can get a Toshiba 900 or the Kaiser on ATT - you know what I think I would have enough business case to get my work to pitch in for the extra fees.

So there is my little informal survey. Sprint you're already screwed on the 6800 - sorry. Can you do anything? Yea get a HTC to make at min the Kaiser and get it before October before all the 6700 contracts start coming up. At least you will keep some of us tech guys around. Then others will look and say hey how come you can download music so much faster on your phone, I want one.