Raphael/touch Pro Comin To Sprint??

[GoodThings2Life]

Apple and AT&T reached the agreement on the iPhone independently of the rest of their phones. Sprint and Samsung have done the same for the Instinct and has not announced any other changes (yet).

So the question is-- why are you all immediately paranoid, without confirmation, of this happening on other phones right now? Relax until an actual announcement is made.

[VR4ever]

Oh snap! They replaced the SERO plan. http://delivery.sprint.com/m/p/sprin...pclanding.asp#

Everything Plus 500 — 500 Minutes, EVDO, SMS, MMS, GPS Nav - $ 59.99
Everything Plus 1000 — 1,000 Minutes,EVDO, SMS, MMS, GPS Nav - $ 79.99
Simply Everything (Unlimited) — Unlimited voice ,EVDO, SMS, MMS, GPS Nav - $ 99.99

The Instinct was one of the phones on the list but now I can't check without a 3-digit CID.

[esqueue]

Originally Posted by VR4ever

Oh snap! They replaced the SERO plan. http://delivery.sprint.com/m/p/sprin...pclanding.asp#

Everything Plus 500 — 500 Minutes, EVDO, SMS, MMS, GPS Nav - $ 59.99
Everything Plus 1000 — 1,000 Minutes,EVDO, SMS, MMS, GPS Nav - $ 79.99
Simply Everything (Unlimited) — Unlimited voice ,EVDO, SMS, MMS, GPS Nav - $ 99.99

The Instinct was one of the phones on the list but now I can't check without a 3-digit CID.

They basically added Nav for $30 from the original 500 plan. This sucks ***.

Thankfully I already have the original sero plan.

[GoodThings2Life]

Originally Posted by VR4ever

Oh snap! They replaced the SERO plan. http://delivery.sprint.com/m/p/sprin...pclanding.asp#

Everything Plus 500 — 500 Minutes, EVDO, SMS, MMS, GPS Nav - $ 59.99
Everything Plus 1000 — 1,000 Minutes,EVDO, SMS, MMS, GPS Nav - $ 79.99
Simply Everything (Unlimited) — Unlimited voice ,EVDO, SMS, MMS, GPS Nav - $ 99.99

The Instinct was one of the phones on the list but now I can't check without a 3-digit CID.

Still doesn't affect current SERO users until their contract expires.

Standard operating procedure on any network. Deal with it. In any case other opportunities will come along in the future.

[ScrapMaker]

I thought that to be on a SERO plan, you had to be a Sprint employee, or at least direct family... how does everyone seem to have these? Are there a million Sprint employees?

and... people complaining that they would not be able to use their phone if they had to pay $60 or whatever... damn! most people pay twice that per month... there are costs to having a cell phone... I feel that I have a pretty nice (non-contractual) setup going on... but it's still more expensive than your "oh crap" price-point... I've just held onto an older plan...

I guess I just find it funny that people are frothing at the mouth of a phone that will probably cost them $400-600 cash, and yet a $60 monthly bill would be outrageous to them... Most of the people on the SERO plans, on the forums, typically upgrade their phones more than once per year on top of that...

amusing to me... but to each their own, I suppose.

[land2634]

Originally Posted by ScrapMaker

I thought that to be on a SERO plan, you had to be a Sprint employee, or at least direct family... how does everyone seem to have these? Are there a million Sprint employees?

and... people complaining that they would not be able to use their phone if they had to pay $60 or whatever... damn! most people pay twice that per month... there are costs to having a cell phone... I feel that I have a pretty nice (non-contractual) setup going on... but it's still more expensive than your "oh crap" price-point... I've just held onto an older plan...

I guess I just find it funny that people are frothing at the mouth of a phone that will probably cost them $400-600 cash, and yet a $60 monthly bill would be outrageous to them... Most of the people on the SERO plans, on the forums, typically upgrade their phones more than once per year on top of that...

amusing to me... but to each their own, I suppose.

SERO= Sprint Employee Referral Offer, so no you don't have to be a Sprint employee or even direct family. You can be referred by a Sprint employee. Some people aren't, but there are those of us who were, and yes we do like our plans. Also, stereotyping all of us into the group (that includes very few really) that upgrades their phone every few months isn't cool either.

On another note, I will be upgrading to a touch pro (after OVER a year with my current device) when it is released.

[ScrapMaker]

Originally Posted by land2634

SERO= Sprint Employee Referral Offer, so no you don't have to be a Sprint employee or even direct family. You can be referred by a Sprint employee. Some people aren't, but there are those of us who were, and yes we do like our plans. Also, stereotyping all of us into the group (that includes very few really) that upgrades their phone every few months isn't cool either.

On another note, I will be upgrading to a touch pro (after OVER a year with my current device) when it is released.

That's all fine and dandy... but I still find it personally amuzing that people whine all day long if they have to pay anything remotely close to the rest of us... and among these forums, I can say that one phone a year is not the norm... it is for me, but a lot of people just jump to the "new hotness."

[Tiberius85]

Im jumping to 'the new hotness' because i want hardware accelerated graphics, and more RAM, and a nicer form factor, and improved UI, upgraded USEFUL camera with autofocus and flash, and VGA screen. The jump between the Mogul and Touch Pro is 10x that of the jump between the 6700 and Mogul, so DEFINITELY worth getting 'the new hotness' this time around.

The phone industry seems to have taken a page from the auto-industry: approx. every 3 model years there is a model revamp, and all years in between is slight tweaking, smaller features added, issues corrected, and slight design changes. I expect the Touch Pro's successor to look somewhat similar to the Touch Pro, and the successor of THAT to be a much different design.

[esqueue]

Originally Posted by land2634

SERO= Sprint Employee Referral Offer, so no you don't have to be a Sprint employee or even direct family. You can be referred by a Sprint employee. Some people aren't, but there are those of us who were, and yes we do like our plans. Also, stereotyping all of us into the group (that includes very few really) that upgrades their phone every few months isn't cool either.

On another note, I will be upgrading to a touch pro (after OVER a year with my current device) when it is released.

I couldn't agree more.

What I find funny are people that say that since you are spending a lot of cash for your phone, it is OK to blow your money on a plan that you probably don't like.

Actually it is not funny but more along the line of annoying.

To each his own....

[bedoig]

Agreed. I went from a $100/month Verizon plan, to a $30/month SERO plan that actually offers significantly more. That's over $800 per year in savings. No one is whining, SERO is/was just one hell of a deal. And for the record, I change phones roughly every two years.