Comments on: Sprint courting bloggers?

By: Shanti’s Dispatches - Sprint Ambassador Program

Shanti’s Dispatches - Sprint Ambassador Program — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 05:24:09 +0000

[...] Dougall, creator of WordPress Multi-User, has been invited: I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I’d have something about the Samsung A920 phone coming up. I don’t have the phone yet, but when I do I’ll surely be posting a review. But in the meantime, let me explain how and why I’m getting this phone, and do a little speculation… [...]

By: David

David — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 22:08:45 +0000

Hey, I just wanted to create a bit of controversy. Glad to hear you want to give an honest opinion.

By: sahask

sahask — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 21:47:32 +0000

i got the same message to and i was approved and they say i should get the phone in 2-4 weeks!!
http://www.skattertech.com/2006/03/sprint-ambassador-program/

By: PJ

PJ — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:50:47 +0000

Do they still make you wait 3 hours to talk to customer service?

By: shorty114

shorty114 — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:19:56 +0000

I agree that giving technogically knowledgable people the samples makes sense, since unenlightened people wouldn’t care what the speeds are (people still use AOL dialup…), how many megapixels the camera is, or what Bluetooth is, as long as it works.

Whereas geeks can recommend to other less technologically inclined people that this is a good phone, and generally people would take their word for it, since they know their stuff.

It also gives them good PR… I don’t mind a free phone, especially a decent one :).

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:26:51 +0000

My wife actually has this phone….

plus, I got her a 512mg Transflash card cause the 32mg the phone comes with just won’t cut it for mp3 playing….I’ve already loaded 9 albums on her phone….it has bluetooth, and is actually close to a smartphone cause it has a calander, task list, etc…I use the Treo 600 and it doesn’t have that kind of power, but it’s close.

I wanted to get her a kinda of ‘all in one phone’ or a ‘convergent device’ like my Treo 600, but she said they were too bulky for her….so, we settled on this phone…nice little phone. I wrote about it on my blog…http://fortysomethingme.com/blog1/?p=7

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:18:28 +0000

I use a T-Mobile to do a lot of the updates to my website. That being said, T-Mobile offers craptastic voice service on the sidekick and I have a Cingular phone that I carry for voice communication. It sure would be nice if one of these companies (sprint, cingular, verison) could come up with a phone that is both easy to use and tough like a sidekick and had quality voice service. They would have my business in a New York Minute.

By: Bradley

Bradley — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 05:31:00 +0000

I got the e-mail. I’m pretty sure that I can confirm someone *actually* looked at my site, because of the following:

I don’t publish my e-mail. I use (warning: buzzword) and AJAX-powered contact form that’s not actually on my blog page until you hit “contact” and the form is fetched.

Now, without JavaScript the contact link still works, as does the form. But I can tell if it was submitted via an AJAX call; the server side script is configured to prefix message subjects with “AJAX:” if the form was submitted that way. Which the Sprint message was.

So unless they’ve written a pretty clever script that is JavaScript-enabled and knows how to click “contact”, wait for the form’s DOM insertion, fill it out and hit submit, I’m pretty certain that a real human being sent me the message.

Which, of course, was an easy copy + paste.

By: derek

derek — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:08:32 +0000

i received a samsung a920 through the ambassador program. at first i felt a little like royalty thinking that i was one of the few individuals who made some sort of special cut. unfortunately, sprint does these types of marketing ploys for thousands upon thousands of users across the states. after receiving the phone, i was told by the csr reps that there was another similar program to the ambassador one in which random people were stopped on the street and given a handset with unlimited usage. at the end of their usage period, the phone was to be handed off to a different [random] person continuing the loop.

it’s a great way for sprint to get publicity. nothing like advertising using actual real world users.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:03:04 +0000

Wow, that’s awesome.