In an effort to keep its customers, Sprint today announced a new Loyalty program called “Sprint Premier”.

After being a loyal customer of Sprint (3 consecutive months), you will automatically be enrolled in “Sprint Premier” and will be able to take advantage of early upgrades (after 1 year with Sprint), also something called “Just Because” where Sprint Premier members can get access to free tickets or trips, yearly gifts to celebrate your anniversary with sprint and more.

Now not only does Sprint have the best Unlimited plan, the best HTC phone they also have Sprint Premier, now I really want to switch to Sprint.

8,000 Sprint Employees will be joining the Unemployment Line as the economy worsens. Sprint is in such bad shape that the remaining employees will not see the company Match their 401k deposits and there is now a salary freeze in effect.

Sprint is expected to pay out 300 million in severance pay but save 1.2 billion over the year.

Wish all those Sprint Employees with out a job good luck.

Today Samsung announced the Pink Instinct available exclusively from Sprint for just $99.99 with a two year contract.

The Instinct is probably one of the most popular phones from Sprint, and it became the fastest selling EVDO handset in Sprints history and in the first two weeks of availability the instinct accounted for one-fith of all handsets sold.

“Instinct has been a great success for us from both a sales and innovation perspective,” said Kevin Packingham, Sprint SVP of Product Development. “We are thrilled with our customer’s response to this dynamic, well-integrated and easy-to-use wireless phone. Bringing the price under $100 will make it even more accessible to customers who want the best of Sprint’s 3G network on a powerful touchscreen device.”

The new pink color is available now in all Sprint retail channels including 1-800-SPRINT1, http://www.sprint.com and several retail partners including Best Buy. 

The new Internet Explorer Mobile will offer users Flash and Javascript support, so you can easily visit your favorite websites such as YouTube and Flickr with out any major problems.

I tested out the new mobile browser and was really impressed with it, but was a bit disapointed when I asked when I can get it.

It turns out Microsoft will not offer it for Download, and you will most likely have to get it on a new phone. Big Mistake Microsoft! 

According to filings with the SEC, Verizon wireless will close it’s accusation of altell wireless and thus create the largest Wireless Provider in the US and surpassing AT&T’s 75 million customers with their 83 million.

HP today released a new App that is available in the iPhone iTunes store. The App is 100% free and will allow you to print 4x6 pictures from your iPhone or iPod Touch to any HP printer connected to a wireless network you have access too.

So if you have a HP Photosmart C8180 Printer or any other HP printer with wireless access, now you have an easy way to print pictures from your phone. No more emailing them to your computer or syncing your phone needed, just send directly to your printer.

So visit the App store to get it!

Rachel a visitor to CellRants.com Submitted this Review via Email.

First what drawed me to the Matrix was the Qwerty board and double slider. AT&T promotes that the phone has IM, mobile email and mobile media net. What they don’t tell you is with these three you only get yahoo, aol, and windows live hotmail. Yes you can log on to the internet to any URL and retrieve your mail. I have found that the alerts to let you know you have new mail, does not always happen. It says you can set up media net to get all your other email by setting up POP3. This is only kinda true. You can only set up yahoo, aol, and windows live hotmail. So if you have gmail, microft, or any other provider. YOU WILL NOT GET IT ON THIS PHONE. Now I did not find all this out until after I have had the phone for a week and after spending over 8hrs with customer service and after making a trip to the store and then calling again. Then today I was told I also needed a PDA plan for this phone, which I am not sure is true because it isn’t a PDA.

With that said.....

If your someone who mainly text and IM, this might be the phone for you. The keys are easy to use, phone is easy to get around, and the screen is a great quality.
BUT if you need other email, text while you drive(very difficult with this phone) take alot of pictures(poor quality), like to have a speaker phone(very poor), and hearing who you are talking to(volume is poor), I would go with another phone.

I hope this helps everyone out. I spent countless hrs on the internet trying to figure out why this phone wouldn’t do what it said it would do and what customer service said it would do. I am exchanging mine tomorrow for the blackberry.

Again not a bad phone if you mainly use it for IM and text. 

As of yesterday T-Mobile has stopped charging an 18 dollar upgrade fee for customers who upgrade their phone.

This is obviously an attempt by the company to be more user friendly and honestly I don’t blame them. But I wonder if that 18 dollar fee will be added to the prices of the phones.

I have been told by a friend who works at T-mobile told me that customers who upgraded with in the past 14 days or so, can request a credit. Not sure how true this is so if anyone knows for sure please let me know.

Today at&t and Pantec announced the C630, the fourth Pantec phone released for at&t wireless this quarter. I have laterally had the C630 handset fr about 6 hours now and it is like any other Pantec phone, affordable and feature rich and although it has a low price tag but it has a high quality build.

The C630 will retail for $39.99 with a two year contract, it features turn by turn GPS navigation with at&t navigator, bluetooth, 1.3 mega pixels camera, a microSD slot so you can listen to your MP3 on it (headphones sold separately), and video sharing capabilities and works on at&t’s 3G network.

Like I alredy said I have been using the phone for 6 hours and it’s amazing. The phone is one of the smallest I have ever used but the keyboard is large. Normally when you have a small phone the keyboard is also tiny and you often fumble over keys and impress the wrong ones. Not the case with the C630.

The phone is also very snappy, it boots u fast and loads the pre-installed programs like the at&t navigator pretty quickly. The phone also has a little joystick that makes it really easy to navigate the menus, although I wish it stuck out a bit more.

Call quality on the phone is superb, maybe it’s the 3G network but I don’t remember a call on at&t sounding so good, and the speaker phone also has really good quality. Even when listening to music the sound quality from the phone was good.

Browsing the web wasn’t as fun as I had hoped but that had more to do with the screen size than the phones performance. I use a smart phone with a big ol screen so I am kind of use to browsing the web with a bigger screen than the C630 has to offer. But other than that browsing the web was flawless and the at&t 3G network is fast provided you can get a 3G signal.

The phone also has a 1.3 Mega Pixel camera, and the picture quality is decent not the greatest but for a phone it’s decent for taking a quick snap shot and send it to your friends.

My only gripe with the phone is you need headphones with a special connector to listen to music (unless you don’t mind the people around you listening to your music while you walk down the street).

Overall the Phone is great and it is available now from AT&T and it would make a perfect gift for the holidays!  For more info visit http://wireless.att.com

Phone available Friday December 12th

Fonolo a great webservice that allows you to “Deep Dial” into a companies menu so that you don’t have to fight your way though the automatedsystem to get to where you want.

I personally have been using the service for 3 months and I love it. I am able to call my airline for example and go straight to Customer Service instead of having to press 1 then 2 then 4 then 1 again to get there.

“We are thrilled to open the doors to the general public in time for the holiday season and offer consumers a better way to reach the hundreds of companies in our database,” said Fonolo CEO Shai Berger. “Two of Fonolo’s most popular categories are travel and consumer electronics, so we expect a great deal of activity during the next month.”

Fonolo’s database currently includes more than 300 North American companies, including airlines, car rental companies, banks, credit card companies, insurance companies and major retailers. And because these companies change their phone menus frequently (“please listen carefully, as our options have changed…”), Fonolo constantly monitors these menus for updates.

To sign up visit: http:// http://www.fonolo.com