Mountain View Cellphones

10/27/2008  By www.mountainviewcellphones.com

Sprint has a great new line up of phones releasing into the Christmas season.  Here is everything new now and going into the near future.

1.  Samsung Rant  (EVDO Rev 0 version of the popular LG Rumor Phone).  Better and slightly bigger in all respects, yet has the same price point of $49.99.  Comes in Red and blue.

2.  LG Lotus.  A great compact flip phone with a QWERTY keyboard.  Purple and Black colos.

3.   HTC Diamond and HTC Touch Pro.  The Touch Pro is a smoking product.  Windows 6.1, virtual keyboard and real keyboard, expandable memory, 3.2 MP camera, AWESOME screen resolution.  It will sell well for those who want the top of the line unit.

4.  Sprint Air RAVE.  Discussed previously, but allows your own cell phone tower at any location with a high speed Internet connection.

5.  Samsung 220 and 320.  New basic phone line up.  The 320 is FREE phone with mail in rebate.  Buy 5 get 5 Free!!! as marketing would say

6.   Samsung Highnote.  This is THE music phone.  It’s much better than the UpStage it replaces and comes with a high quality compact speaker that can fill a room with your beats.  You can bring the party with you anywhere now.  I’m certain some amateur film student will be using this as background music to save time and money during the shoot.

7.  Sanyo Eclipse refresh with One Touch.  Illumination phone…pretty cool looking…otherwise a great multimedia phone that easy to find in your purse.

8.  New Nextel Blackberry.  Curve with a PTT button.  It will be a good device.

This is the best handset line-up Sprint has ever had.  The turnaround is actually producing some very real results now.

The AIRAVE product has rave reviews about the technology and the value proposition to Sprint customers.  With AIRAVE you will not have any more coverage problems as long as you have high-speed Internet access at your home. 

From Sprint Press Release 7/30/2008 

“The technology behind the AIRAVE has received several awards, including Best of Innovations at CES 2008, Emerging Technologies Award – 1st Place: Network Infrastructure Category at CTIA 2008 and Best of CTIA 2007 “Best Cell Phone Accessory” Award from LAPTOP Magazine.

Starting August 17, Sprint customers will be able to purchase the AIRAVE at Sprint stores across the country for $99.99 (taxes excluded). Customers are required to subscribe to the AIRAVE enhanced coverage plan, which is priced at just $4.99** per month in addition to the customer’s regular wireless voice plan. Customers who do not have one of Sprint’s unlimited voice plans, such as Simply Everything, can get unlimited in-home calling by subscribing to the optional AIRAVE Unlimited Voice plan for an additional $10 per month** for individuals or $20 per month for families.** For more information, customers can visit www.sprint.com/airave.” 

 For an extra $4.99/month per user, you can have coverage with your regular cell phone plan and for an additional $5.00/month you can have unlimited home calling to your cell phone from your home.  This is similar to the T-Mobile options but uses a technology strictly for cellphone service and expands the Sprint Network to work in your home or within 5,000 feet. 

This does two great things for consumers. 

1.  Eliminates the marketing BS about coverage and reliability.  Now the network has a cell tower inside your home.  What could be better?

2.  Provides coverage to anywhere you get high-speed Internet access inside buildings.  In building coverage is always a problem for any carrier and this provides an elegant solution.

3.  You still get a price advantage with Sprint over other carriers even with the additional $5.00 charge.  For example, you get the Unlimited Talk & Text Plan and an AIRAVE.  You are paying just $94.99/month for unlimited voice & unlimited texting.  This still saves you $20-$30 per month over AT&T and Verizon unlimited plans.  This is more than enough to off set the cost of the device at $99.99. 

Lastly, this is a Samsung product, so you will have great quality and ease of use. 

Another great Sprint innovation. 

By: www.mountainviewcellphones.com  7/17/2008

Sprint’s Mobile Sync on NDC (Nextel Direct Connect) phones is a great bonus to these devices.  Mobile Sync provides the capability to manage your contact lists online and with a computer sync to Outlook.  This gives great protection to your contacts and to your company in managing several phones and contact lists.

 Mobile sync provides several cool features.  Of course, these come at NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE.  Another great value advantage for Sprint.  Currently the models supported are the Sanyo Pro 700 & Pro 200, Samsung Z400, and LG LX400. 

1.  Network back up of your contacts is not standard on these phones.  A great way to ensure you don’t lose your contacts if you lose your phone or change phones.

2.  If you get a new phone with Mobile Sync, you can download the contacts from the network to your phone.  A great benefit to companies that need to manage several or several hundred phones.

3.  Sync with Outlook on desktops is included.  A small application is included that allows this. 

4.  Import or export of your contact list to the phone from correctly formated files for mass upload / downloads.

5.  You can create and save your Team or Group Connect lists.

For administrators of many phones, there are additional useful features.

1.  You can create and manage a shared address book with all the phones and the company phone list.

2.   You can assign particular numbers and push numbers to the phone from the online site.  This is a great tool for sending numbers to phones in a group setting (i.e. added an important vendor everyone needs the phone number of). 

3.  Lastly, you can assign call restrictions/access to all NDC radio functions to users.  So, if you only what particular users to call and receive calls from a small set of people, then you can now control that from online.

Sprint’s Mobile Sync is a great innovation and adds tons of value. 

By: www.mountainviewcellphones.com   6/28/2008

The Samsung Instinct is out and immediately OUT OF STOCK.  We get another large shipment in July, but until then, inventory will be spotty.  The great news is that this phone lives up to it’s promise and hype.  It’s not perfect but it does a great job in the things it’s designed to do well.

There are some great things about the phone that differentiate it from the IPHONE alternative.  Read the rest of this entry »

 By: MountainViewCellphones.com , 4/10/2008

Apple had to get in the cell phone business as music was moving towards becoming a feature rather than a separate device.  The IPOD era was ending and the IPHONE begun in 2007.  ITUNES, their premier franchise needed the support but even this has intense competition from proposals from everything music packages and even great music services like Pandora. 

Now we have this from CTIA:

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The Samsung ACE is finally here.  It supports Windows Mobile 6.0, high speed EVDO data rates, and International voice and data coverage.  The best part is that it’s all in a sleek package.  This is a great phone for taking care of business as well as a night on the town.

The new ACE is a global phone that can help you around the world in a windows OS.  It’s a great upgrade to the previous IP-830 in terms of size and in terms of quality.  It’s very similar to the Blackjack from AT&T in many regards, but unlike the Blackjack, it’s made to work globally on CDMA and GSM around the world and have high speed data access on both. 

The price point will also be very affordable at $199.99, the unit is comparable in many regards to the Blackberry 8830 but with a bonus camera.  Another phone to boost Sprint’s international line up.