Today, Sprint and Samsung introduced the SP-i600, a stylish, clamshell PDA phone featuring Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 Software for Smartphones. Both consumers and professionals can benefit from a collection of productivity-enhancing features including:
Pocket versions of popular Microsoft programs that extend the familiarity of the desktop experience onto a phone with comfortable, one-handed navigation
Browser content for the Smartphone screen is formatted into one column so users don't have to scroll left to right to view the information
Windows Mobile 2003 support of the IPSec/L2TP Virtual Private Network protocol, offers users a more secure way to access remote information
Inclusion of the AudiblePlayer application allows users to download and playback all of audible.com's 50,000 hours audiobooks, business news and educational material - a perfect way to turn downtime into productive time
If you are unfamiliar, Audible is a leading provider of audio content. SP-i600 users will find the AudiblePlayer handy if they want to listen to the up-to-date news reports from top-tier daily publications and magazines or catch up on their favorite best-seller..
Although these are not listed on the Sprint PCS site yet, they should be shortly.
It's better? No seriously, I am hooked on the PocketPC OS and won't go back to palm. I use Verizon and want a smartphone. Therefore thats the only one for me (or the i700). It's people like me that want exactly one thing that allows them to charge what they want. Sorry.
Originally posted by i330 Now can anyone explain why in the world does the non-touchscreen i600, cost $50 more than the treo 600/i500 palm phones?!?
A better screen, pixel-wise, and a better processor, both of which means a higher cost. And probably a higher profit margin and a higher license fee for the OS.
Its really hard to try and draw any logical conclusions to phone pricing. There are so many variables... you've named a few. But, AT&T has sold a MS Smartphone dirt cheap, so I think it depends on what the companies involved are motivated to do. With cellular phones, cost+profit does not equal price.
Oh, right. I was thinking of cost factors to Samsung. As far as consumer cost goes, you are right. You have to look at the expected total return to the carrier on both the initial payment and the monthly service costs. Personnally, I think that most of the time, the mobile phone companies are nuts, based on their bottom lines. But then, if I was so smart, I'd be rich, right?
Originally posted by dwdod Is this handset different from the Samsung i600 that has been available from Verizon for the last year or so?
I don't know the details, but it looks like the same thing. The announcement kind of came out of nowhere... I don't recall anyone speculating about this at all.
there has been speculation for at least half a year actually...the holdup was that sprint was insisting on smartphone OS 2003, which would be one difference between vzw and sprints version
Originally posted by Convergent Its really hard to try and draw any logical conclusions to phone pricing. There are so many variables... you've named a few. But, AT&T has sold a MS Smartphone dirt cheap, so I think it depends on what the companies involved are motivated to do. With cellular phones, cost+profit does not equal price.
Come on guys, it's macro economics 101, there is only one thing that determines price (actually 2), supply and demand. While a price can be set (initially) anywhere, the market will eventually establish the price. If the unit sells like crazy, then the price will remain the same (or possibly go higher). If the i600 sits on shelves, the price will go lower. Early adopters rarely pay market price.
Originally posted by CarlGalgano Come on guys, it's macro economics 101, there is only one thing that determines price (actually 2), supply and demand. While a price can be set (initially) anywhere, the market will eventually establish the price. If the unit sells like crazy, then the price will remain the same (or possibly go higher). If the i600 sits on shelves, the price will go lower. Early adopters rarely pay market price.
You would think that would be true, but it's simply not.
At sprintpcs at least, once a phone's price is set it rarely ever changes.
the i330 never left $500, the i500/t600 has always been $600, the g1000 has always been $650, etc. The prices dont respond to market conditions, as they should...
Today, Sprint and Samsung introduced the SP-i600, a stylish, clamshell PDA phone featuring Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 Software for Smartphones. Both consumers and professionals can benefit from a collection of productivity-enhancing features including:
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