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Sprint Shoots At 1st-gen iPhone Users

Posted by Sam Hobson on June 27, 2009 – 3:02 pm  Share
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Sprint recently put out the following ad.

They claim that you can save a lot of money and get better service if you choose them and the Pre instead of AT&T and the iPhone.  This seems to be targeted at people using the original iPhone, because if you think about it, around this time two years ago the original iPhone appeared.

So Sprint is here claiming that the Pre is better than the original iPhone.  It’s a good campaign, but I wonder if it will work.  Many things the original iPhone was missing are now here in the new iPhone 3GS.  It got MMS, video shooting, tethering, among other things.  The claim about the iPhone not multitasking is pretty much true though.  The closest it comes is saving where you are when you close an app.

The iPhone does have a lot of upsides to it, though.  One thing is the app store.  Apple’s app store has over 50 thousand apps in it’s catalog while Palm’s only has about 10 or so.  The iPhone also has voice dialing and a compass app (which I had a blast with).

All the Pre seems to have over the iPhone is a physical keyboard.  But I have also never played with the Pre so I don’t know too much there.

The iPhone seems to have a lot that’s better than the Pre.  That money claim, however, seems like a good fight.  I did a little math here and came up with the following conclusions for a 900 minute plan:

  • iPhone – 900min, unlimited text, Data = around $2839
  • Palm Pre – Sprint Simply Everything plan with 900min = $2359

Though the solutions aren’t exact, you’ll probably save a couple of hundred dollars when buying the Pre.

Sprint seems to have a decent campaign going.  I wonder how AT&T will respond.

 

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  • All the Pre seems to have over the iPhone is a physical keyboard. But I have also never played with the Pre so I don’t know too much there.

    What about multi-tasking?

    By the way, the new Apple iPhone 3GS commercial is a joke. You know, the one that says "with video and other amazing features". Yeah, video is such an amazing feature that dumb phones have had it for years and it took Apple two years to add it to the iPhone. (Where's the "rolling eyes" icon when you need it.)

    Maybe the amazing features included copy/paste. Oops, no, Windows Mobile touchscreen devices have had that for like, what, 10 years? But, hey, they have a digital compass! (Of course, with GPS, if you're moving, you can get a bearing anyway....)

    Steve
  • While their numbers make sense, I can't see this campaign cutting much ice. Time and time again it has been proven that Apple users are very brand loyal despite paying premium prices. In fact they often take the fact they pay more for their favored gear to be a point of pride and distinction.

    Whether you say this is due to product quality, due to a desire to buy into the Apple mystique and lifestyle, or due to social/peer group status issues depends on how you feel about the House that Jobs Built.
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