Sprint pays customers to pimp Instinct; Brightpoint scores Verizon deal
> Sprint will pay bloggers $20 to blog about the Samsung Instinct. The campaign, which is appropriately called "Sell Out," also promises to award $10,000 to the best Instinct video. Story
> Distributor Brightpoint scored a major win with Verizon Wireless. The firm will distribute phones and data devices to all Verizon agents and retailers. Release
> Verizon Wireless gets Loopt. Article
> Fierce 15 2008 winner Vlingo is now available on BlackBerry devices. Article
And finally... IDC says that 1.5 billion people will use the Internet on a regular basis in 2008. Release
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Posted by Anonymous | June 27, 2008 - 7:19am
The numbers are inflated. Sprint deceptively sold me an Instinct saying it would work on my plan. It wouldn't activate when I got it and the company's answer was to buy a plan that cost twice as much. I returned the Insrinct. It wasn't worth the cost. This rollout is still born.
Posted by Anonymous | July 24, 2008 - 12:20pm
There are special plans that work with the Instinct and only that device. It's pretty common knowledge that non-Instinct plans don't work with the Instinct... The folks in the retail stores went through training before the Instinct rolled, so they know about the special plans. I find the level of truth in your anecdote to be highly suspect, or you happened to leave some major details out...
