Yes...
Bought.
NEW.
Why is this a big deal? It's like this with me and phones:
I usually try and cheat the system. My phones have always been outdated. They've always been the types I'd acquired via equipment replacement programs by claiming they dropped into the lake, sewer, well...whatever. I did that when I was sick of a phone and figured it was cheaper to get upgrades that way. That's because sucky Sprint used to give NEW customers the best phones FREE and leave the 8 year pre-exhisting customers high and dry. So while all my friends had cool phones like Kitanas and Razors, I was stuck with thick bulky crap phones.
Last week I was going through the Sprint site. They were offering the Samsung M610 for $279. $49 for NEW customers and $179 AFTER a mail in rebate (meaning you had to pay in full first and wait for a rebate in the mail).
Screw that! I was in Best Buy and they had a deal for $79 for old customers along with new customers getting it for $49. Now that seemed fair to me. The offer was only good til 6/16 so I said "fuck it" and went for it.
I could have had a Kitana or a Razor for free, but everyone and their mother has those so I wanted something different.
BEHOLD...the NEW hotness!:
The worlds thinnest, sleekest clamshell phone!
Technical and photographic comparisons in the extended entry. (GEEK inside)
Brief overview for the phone fetishist:
You may notice that this is an in-house spec as it refers to us, the non Sprint Employee. Note the mention of the target demographic.
The M610 vs. those Wretched Razors:
You'd be amazed at what it can do... and a 2 megapixel camera with onboard editing software to boot!
