Comments on: Sprint unhappy with Google’s Android phone – needs an iPhone killer fast

By: portia escalera

portia escalera — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:07:23 +0000

Key Features
Sprint HTC Hero
AT&T Apple iPhone 3GS

Personal Customization
HTC Sense: Users can customize up to 7 scenes
No

Google Integration
Yes-htc
No-apple

Application Store
Yes – Android Market -htc
Yes- apple

Outlook Integration
Email, Calendar, Contacts -htc
No- apple

Camera
5.0 Megapixel-htc
3.0 Megapixel -apple

Messaging Integration
Yes-htc
No-apple

Memory
Expandable-htc
Not Expandable-apple

WiFi
Yes-htc
Yes-apple

Battery
Removable 1500 mAh-htc
Not Removable -apple

Headset Jack
3.5mm-htc
3.5mm-apple

TV, Music, GPS
Yes-htc
No TV-apple

Device Cost
$179.99-htc
$199.99-apple

Average Plan Total Cost
(2yr plan + device)
$1,860
Sprint Everything Data with Any Mobile, Anytime Plan/450
$2,360

AT&T Nation Talk, Text and Web Plan/450 with required iPhone Data and optional Unlimited Messaging Plan

these are the difference bet the spint htc hero and apple phone.. just for you to know.. i have both phones from two diff companies. and i enjoy a lot more bet with sprint services and planning to cut off the line i have with att

By: na'am

na'am — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:48:53 +0000

I am on my samsung instinct now and this phone really isn’t all that cracked up to be i had been wanting the iphone but now i hear that phones not cracked up 2 be either but the G1 with t-mobile is i jus wish they’d come out with some better phones like fashionable like the iphone but work like the G1 sprint doesnt have any phones with the real internet and this phone is gettin on my nerve the camera doesnt have flash or any options like decorating pictures and omg applications on this sad phone and the iphone all cost money but the G1 has SO MANY FREE applications that phone is awesome

By: allan iverson

allan iverson — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:28:34 +0000

doesn’t everyone carry blackberries?? sprint is pissing me off by not carrying something better than what they have now….to me it seems like they missed their chance and are too proud to just suck it up and go with the program.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:39:01 +0000

Sounds like Sprint making excuses.
They are losing customers hand over fist and trying to gloss over their inability to compete and blame it on someone (anyone) else.

Nextel screwed up Sprint? No, I’d say it was the other way around. I think a majority of Nextel users you could talk to Steve would say it went down hill faster once Sprint took over.

By: SteveSanders

SteveSanders — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:33:22 +0000

What an idiot. I was going to go back to Sprint cuz I miss their service (always been good while I was with them)..and I really, really, really don’t want to go to t-mobile cuz they suck. Now I don’t know what to do…guess I’ll stick with this lame iPhone and sucky at&t for now. Nextel really screwed up Sprint.

By: Norm

Norm — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:07:07 +0000

I’m waiting to see how it all turns out before I adopt.

By: JoeMo

JoeMo — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:16:11 +0000

I am very shocked that Sprint is saying they dont have a good smartphone to compete with ATT. My goodness, they got the Instinct, Diamond, and the new HTC Touch Pro. They got really good blackberrries too. how can they say they cant compete with the Iphone. My friends have the Iphone and they tell me not to get it because its bad. I am a proud Instinct user, haha.