The Instinct's touchscreen keeps you in touch better than any other, with an interface designed to quickly take you right to where you want to go.

Sprint Service Options
Supporting the EV-DO Rev. A high-speed data standard, Sprint's Mobile Broadband Network provides blazing fast speeds on the nation's largest mobile broadband network (based on covered square miles), covering more than 15,000 cities and 1,400 airports. With EV-DO Rev. A, peak download data rates increase to 3.1 Mbps and peak upload data rates increase to 1.8 Mbps; average download speeds improve to 600 kbps to 1.4 mbps and average uplink speeds increase to 350 to 500 kbps.

The Sprint Music Store enables you to buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song--one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that's right for you. Use the Sprint Music Store to listen to music while sending text messages, browsing the Web, or playing a downloaded game. And get over 30 channels of music--Hip Hop, Top Hits, Latin Pop, music videos and shows from NPR, Sporting News and more--treamed to your phone.

With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive video service combines high-quality streaming audio and video from channels including the NFL Network, ABC, The Weather Channel, Fox Sports, E!, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and more.

Whether you use your finger or a stylus, the Instinct responds to every touch with a slight vibration.

Other features include a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth music streaming, and MicroSD memory expansion up to 8 GB.

Nicely slim, the Instinct measures 0.5 inches thin and weighs 4.4 ounces.

This GPS-enabled phone provides optional access to Sprint Navigation for driving directions on your mobile phone--by voice and onscreen. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, Sprint Navigation will say, "Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street." As you approach the turn, you will hear, "Turn right on Elm Street." Sprint Navigation also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it's easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.

With Sprint Mobile Email, you'll get easy access to your favorite home email services including AOL, Yahoo!, Gmail, and MSN/Windows Live Hotmail and more. And Sprint Mobile Email Work enables you to access email from corporate servers, including Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 and Lotus Notes Domino versions 6.0, 6.5 and 7.0 (with the latest software update).

Phone Features
Named "Best in Show" in the third annual Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Award competition in April at CTIA Wireless 2008, the innovative Samsung Instinct speeds up the user experience like no other touchscreen phone and brings your most-used applications and contacts within a single finger tap. With the Instinct, you don't have to listen to voicemail anymore. Just one quick glance at the Visual Voicemail display and you'll know who called and when--and even delete messages without having to listen to them first. The device also offers a Speech to Action button providing many functions using speech activation for calling, texting, picture messaging, traffic, movie, sports, news, weather and search.

It has a high-tech look with large, vibrant touchscreen a 240 x 432-pixel resolution and support for 262K colors for excellent depth. And whether you use your finger or a stylus, the Instinct responds to every touch with a slight vibration. This localized tactile feedback, called haptics, transforms the virtual QWERTY keypad and other screen interactions into a sensory experience.

This sleek, stylish device offers three dedicated keys on the lower portion of the device to make operation of the device very straightforward and easy to navigate--phone, back and home. The phone key always takes you back to essential voice calling and features including speed dial, visual voicemail, contacts and the dial pad. The back key is a consistent way to take a step back in the operation. The home key provides quick access to the four menus of functionality included in the user interface:

With Live Search, you can use that GPS technology to search for the nearest gas station by location, price or even grade of gasoline.

• Favorites provides one-touch access to the things you do most, making customization and personalization extremely simple. Web sites, TV channels, text messaging friends and much more can be saved in the Favorites menu so the items used most are always at the user's fingertips.
• Main includes applications such as Messaging, Voicemail, GPS Navigation and more.
• Fun takes you to Music, TV, photos, games and more.
• Web provides a fast, real Internet experience and all things Web-related, including weather and news.

The 2-megapixel camera can capture images up to 1600 x 1200 pixels for prints up to 8 x 10 inches. It features a 2x digital zoom, "fuzzy picture" warning that lets you know if you're about to take a bad picture, and easy viewing of photos by simply swiping your finger across the screen to move from one photo to the next. It also includes a video camcorder function that lets you record video clips up to 2 MB (approximately 6 minutes) for sending via messaging or for as long as you have space on an inserted MicroSD memory card for saving.

The music player is compatible with MP3, WMA, AAC/AAC+, and KOZ digital audio formats, and it will play in the background even while sending text messages, browsing the Web, or playing a downloaded game. This phone is also compatible with 72-chord polyphonic ringtones, and it includes a vibrate silent mode.

The phone is compatible with text (SMS) and multimedia (MMS) messaging, as well as POP3 personal email accounts. It includes XT9 predictive text entry (the new version of the T9), with such features as a word prediction list and spelling correction that spots transposed letters and missed keys, as well as instant integration into all applications on the device.

Other features include:

• Live Search for Sprint, powered by Microsoft, provides easy access to directory information on-the-go, GPS-enabled directions, interactive maps and one-touch click to call access
• Store up to 600 contact entries, each with fields for five phone numbers, an email address, a web site, and notes
• Organizational tools: Calendar, calculator, alarm clock, world clock, stopwatch and notepad
• Speech to Action feature let's you place calls using your voice, store voice reminders, and record voice memos right on your device
• Sprint Mobile Sync: Load contact info to your phone and sync with PC, any time you add, edit or remove contacts it auto updates the back-up PC contact list.
• Speaker-Independent Voice Dialing: Say the name of any entry in your phone book and the number is dialed automatically without using the keypad. This feature is speaker-independent, so there is no need to train the phone to respond to any one person's voice. Receive an audible status report of your phone's coverage, signal strength, and battery strength.
• Hearing Aid Compatibility = M3/T3
• Bluetooth version 2.0 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), DUN (dial-up networking), FTP (file transfer), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PBA (transfer contacts)

Vital Statistics
The Samsung Instinct weighs 4.4 ounces and measures 4.6 x 2.2 x 0.5 inches. Its 1000 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.75 hours of talk time. It runs on the 800/1900 CDMA/EV-DO frequencies.

With the TouchFLO 3D interface, album artwork, calendar items and snapshots are brought to life for you to interact, play and launch at your fingertips.

The HTC Touch Pro for Sprint provides a mobile Internet experience that uses the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network (EV-DO Rev. A). You'll also enjoy GPS navigation capabilities for accessing the optional Sprint Navigation turn-by-turn direction service as well as access to Sprint TV's video-on-demand with full-motion video and vivid sound. Other features include built-in Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g), a 3.2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth for handsfree devices and stereo music streaming, and up to 4 hours of talk time. Compatible with MicroSD memory cards for expansion up to 16 GB, this package includes a 1 GB MicroSD card to give you the room you need for larger work files, presentations, reports, documents or fun files like photos and music.

Sprint Service
Supporting the EV-DO Rev. A high-speed data standard, this phone enables you to download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Where coverage is available, EV-DO Rev. A connectivity provides peak network download data rates of up to 3.1 Mbps and peak upload data rates of up to 1.8 Mbps; average download speeds range from 600 kbps to 1.4 mbps and average uplink speeds range from 350 to 500 kbps.

With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive service allows you to access your favorite channels and networks within seconds to watch live TV or video-on-demand with full-motion video. Choose from more than 50 live television channels and watch programs such as CNN mobile, FOX sports and E! Entertainment; access NFL Network and special programming via Sprint Exclusive Entertainment.

Sprint brings you closer to this season's NFL action with NFL Mobile Live, which enables you to listen to the live radio broadcasts of every NFL game throughout the 2008 regular season. Sprint is making it easier to follow a specific team by carrying a live radio broadcast for each game, including pregame and postgame reports in most instances. NFL Mobile Live also allows NFL.com fantasy owners to monitor the performance of every player in real time directly from their phone. Key information for individual players will be easily accessible, including real-time game and season cumulative stats, rankings, player profiles and photos. NFL Mobile Live is free of charge to Sprint data subscribers.

The slide-out, backlit QWERTY keyboard makes sending email and editing documents fast and familiar.

This GPS-enabled phone provides optional access to Sprint Navigation for driving directions on your mobile phone--by voice and onscreen. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, Sprint Navigation will say, "Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street." As you approach the turn, you will hear, "Turn right on Elm Street." Sprint Navigation also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it's easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.

The Sprint Mobile Sync service enables you to store and manage up to 5,000 contacts in your Sprint Mobile Sync address book, including phone numbers, addresses, notes and other fields. After your phone is activated, every change you make to your address book will be automatically saved on the Sprint network and every change you make online will be updated on your phone. Create and manage personal Group Connect groups to instantly reach up to 20 other users, at the same time, via Nextel Direct Connect or texting. Import contact fields to your address book or synchronize them with your Microsoft Outlook contacts.

Phone Features
With the TouchFLO 3D interface, HTC has taken a great leap forward in touchscreen innovation. It's designed for one-hand operation using simple, gesture-based navigation, allowing you to simply touch, hold and slide along the screen tabs. A quick slide on the home screen quickly activates the most used features such as e-mail, text messaging, music player and camera. This instinctive interface extends to the powerful Web browser, where a useful "zoom in, zoom out" feature makes it especially easy to access the Web via the included Opera browser, which provides for desktop-like Web page renderings and user interactions. An integrated accelerometer senses when you change the position of the phone from portrait to landscape viewing, and it auto-rotates the screen's orientation.

The HTC Touch Pro features a sharp, 262K-color 2.8-inch VGA touchscreen (480 x 640 pixels) for touch-sensitive navigation control, complete with three-dimensional animated transitions. For email, messaging and other data input, the HTC Touch Pro also comes equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard that slides out from the smartphone's side.

Business users can choose from several popular platforms to access your corporate e-mail. The Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional platform offers seamless integration with Microsoft Outlook information including email, contacts, calendar and to-do lists. You can access and edit email attachments using mobile versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint.

In addition, the HTC Touch Pro supports scores of industry-specific applications as well as Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager (MDM), an enterprise-grade mobile device management solution that also provides security, mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN) and software distribution for Windows Mobile devices enabled for Windows Mobile 6.1. For maximum flexibility, customers can choose to use either the classic Windows Mobile interface or HTC's acclaimed TouchFLO 3D graphical interface, which makes popular applications easily available at the swipe of a finger.

This phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity with EDR (enhanced data rate), and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and audio/video remote control. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You'll also be able to access open Wi-Fi networks in offices and hotspots via the integrated 802.11b/g wireless connectivity.

Other features include:

• 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus; video capture up to CIF resolution (352 x 288 pixels)
• Windows Media Player compatible with MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WAV file formats
• 512 MB of ROM, 288 MB of RAM
• Compatible with ActiveSync 4.5 and Windows Mobile Device Center
• Support for polyphonic ringtones as well as real-music ringers
• Voice command capable.
• MicroSD memory card expansion (up to 16 GB capacities)
• WorldCard Mobile business card reader
• USB 2.0 connectivity with mass storage capabilities
• Bluetooth version 2.0+EDR with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), DUN (dial-up networking), FTP (file transfer), HID (support for mice or joysticks), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PAN (personal area networking), PBA (transfer contacts)
• Hearing Aid Compatibility = M3

Vital Statistics
The HTC Touch Pro weighs 4.94 ounces and measures 4.17 x 2.04 x 0.71 inches. Its 1340 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4.0 hours of talk time, and up to 350 hours (14.6 days) of standby time. It runs on the CDMA 800/1900 frequencies as well as Sprint's EV-DO Rev. A data network.

Powered by Windows Mobile 6.1
Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1 offers a number of handy features that make searching through email, editing Microsoft Office documents, and staying on top of your most important communications even easier. Emails can now be viewed in their original rich HTML format and now offer the ability to visit embedded links. It also includes Windows Live for Windows Mobile, which provides a full set of Windows Live services, such as the Windows Live Messenger IM application, which now enables you to chat with more than one person at one time or send a file.

With Windows Mobile 6.1, your phone will finally be able to emulate the power and features of your PC's Microsoft Office suite. You'll be able to neatly view, navigate and edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets in their original formatting--without affecting tables, images or text--as well as view PowerPoint presentations.

• Microsoft Office Word Mobile features include spell-check, Find and Replace commands, bulleted lists, text formatting, and support for tables for the first time.
• With Excel Mobile, you're not just confined to editing charts: with the new Chart Wizard you can create charts quickly and easily.
• PowerPoint Mobile allows you to view the full presentation, rehearse timings, check the order and any live links you may have in your presentation. You can then email comments back to the team or communicate via MSN Messenger for an immediate response.
• After creating or editing a Word document or Excel spreadsheet, you can synchronize it with your PC and it will automatically be converted to the PC version.

All Windows Mobile 6.1 powered devices include Direct Push Technology for up-to-date e-mail delivery and automatic synchronization of Outlook calendars, tasks and contacts through Microsoft Exchange Server. It also offers a set of important device security and management features that include the capability to remotely wipe all data from a device should it be lost or stolen, helping ensure that confidential information remains that way.

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Sprint Service Options
Supporting the EV-DO high-speed data standard, this phone enables you to download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Where coverage is available, EV-DO connectivity provides average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps, with peak rates up to 2 Mbps. With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive video service combines high-quality streaming audio and video from channels including the NFL Network, ABC, The Weather Channel, Fox Sports, E!, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and more.

The Sprint Music Store enables you to buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song--one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that's right for you.

This GPS-enabled phone provides optional access to Sprint Navigation for driving directions on your mobile phone--by voice and onscreen. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, Sprint Navigation will say, "Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street." As you approach the turn, you will hear, "Turn right on Elm Street." Sprint Navigation also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it's easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.

The Curve's full QWERTY keyboard and the innovative trackball navigation system (placed above the keyboard) makes accessing your data and writing email a breeze.

Staying Connected
With BlackBerry's push email technology, your email will find you without having to initiate a connection. BlackBerry devices are designed to remain on and continuously connected to the wireless network, notifying you as new email arrives. In addition to the text, you can also receive and view attachments in a wide range of popular file formats, including Microsoft Office, Corel WordPerfect, and Adobe PDF.

Browse the web with the integrated, full-featured browser, which quickly and efficiently displays HTML pages as well as enables you to set up RSS feeds to stay connected to up-to-the-minute news and blog posts. And keep up with your contacts using a variety of instant message (IM) networks, including the integrated Blackberry Messenger as well as downloadable clients for Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, and Lotus Sametime.

For corporate users, the Curve delivers all the enterprise email and messaging capabilities you've come to expect. It's supported on BlackBerry Internet Service, giving you access to up to 10 work or personal email accounts (including most popular ISP email accounts), as well as BlackBerry Enterprise Server, enabling advanced security and IT administration within IBM Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise environments.

Phone Features
The Curve 8330 is fashioned with subtly curving corners and chrome highlights. Measuring 4.2 x 2.4 inches, the Curve is just as slim as the Pearl (0.63 inches) and weighs in at 4 ounces. It features a bright 2.5-inch color TFT screen that provides 65,000 colors and a 320 x 240-pixel resolution, and it includes a light-sensing feature that automatically adjusts backlighting for indoor, outdoor and dark environments. Like the BlackBerry 8800, the Curve includes a trackball navigation system located on the top of the QWERTY keypad, and it also features an integrated spell checker with a customizable dictionary to help maintain accuracy while on the go. It has 96 MB of internal ROM memory, and is expandable using MicroSD/MicroSDHC memory cards (up to 8 GB in size).

The 2-megapixel camera makes it easy to capture pictures to send via email or upload to your online photo collection.

You can snap vivid photos (though no video) using the 2-megapixel camera on the back of the Curve, which also features a 5x digital zoom, built-in flash, self-portrait mirror and full screen viewfinder. It can capture images in up to three picture quality and size resolutions that can be shared instantly by email, MMS or BlackBerry Messenger, or even uploaded to your Flickr account with the Yahoo! Go service. Photos can also be immediately set as a unique caller ID or Home Screen image. You can edit photos and create albums within the Curve using the PhotoSuite application. Pictures can be cropped, rotated and straightened, and flaws can be fixed by removing redeye or changing the brightness, contrast, and saturation levels.

Listen to your favorite music and watch downloaded videos using the included stereo headset, or use an optional wireless headphone thanks to the Curve's support for the Bluetooth stereo audio profile (A2DP/AVRCP). The Curve is compatible with MP3 and WMA audio files, and dedicated volume controls are conveniently located on the side of the handset.

With the Voice-Activated Dialing (VAD) feature, you can initiate a call just by telling the Curve who to call from your contact list--either via the integrated speakerphone or using an optional Bluetooth wireless headset. Other advanced phone features include advanced sound technology that cancels out background noise and echo, dedicated volume and mute keys, and the ability to customize the Curve with polyphonic and MP3 ringtones.

The BlackBerry Maps application enables you to view maps and driving directions as well as email maps to other BlackBerry users and launch maps from your address book. It also includes a local search capability that allows users to find local businesses, such as banks, hotels and restaurants, within a short driving distance.

Vital Statistics
The BlackBerry Curve 8330 weighs 4 ounces and measures 4.2 x 2.4 x 0.63 inches. Its 1150 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.9 hours of talk time, and up to 264 hours (11 days) of digital standby time. It runs on the 800/1900 CDMA/EV-DO frequencies.

The Rant's slide-out QWERTY keyboard that lets you type as fast as you talk.

Capture and share photographs with family and friends with the Rant's built-in 2-megapixel camera with night shot mode, PictBridge printing support, and video capture capabilities. Other features include Bluetooth for handsfree devices and stereo music streaming, a 600-number internal phonebook, speaker-independent voice dialing, and up to 5.6 hours of talk time.

Sprint Service
Supporting the EV-DO high-speed data standard, this phone enables you to download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Where coverage is available, EV-DO connectivity provides average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps, with peak rates up to 2 Mbps. With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive video service combines high-quality streaming audio and video from channels including the NFL Network, ABC, The Weather Channel, Fox Sports, E!, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and more.

The Sprint Music Store enables you to buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song--one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that's right for you.

This GPS-enabled phone provides optional access to Sprint Navigation for driving directions on your mobile phone--by voice and onscreen. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, Sprint Navigation will say, "Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street." As you approach the turn, you will hear, "Turn right on Elm Street." Sprint Navigation also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it's easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.

Give your Sprint Mobile Email a boost with seamless access to your corporate email and contacts. With the Sprint Mobile Email Work service, you can receive email from Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 and Lotus Notes Domino versions 6.0, 6.5 and 7.0.

Phone Features
Named Best Cell Phone at the 2008 CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment conference, the Samsung Rant offers the hallmarks of a classic candybar-style phone, with alpha-numeric keypad, five way navigator and send/end/soft-navigation keys on the face, sitting below a 2.1-inch LCD screen with a a 176 x 220-pixel resolution and 262K color depth. But the Rant transforms into a messaging powerhouse thanks to the smooth horizontal slide-out, full QWERTY keyboard, which lets you type as fast as you talk.

Sprint One Click's customizable home screen enables you to optimize your experience by providing quick access to the things you use the most.

The phone has an internal 64 MB memory, which can be expanded via optional MicroSD memory cards (up to 16 GB in size). The phonebook can store up to 600 contacts with room for up to six phone numbers, two email addresses, an IM screen name, web address, and a picture ID for each entry. Other features include display of the last 20 received/missed/outgoing calls and ringer ID capability.

This phone features Sprint's new One Click navigation interface, which places eight shortcut tiles along the bottom of the home screen. Instead of navigating through endless phone menus, you can put the things you use the most--features like call logs, texting, Web access and GPS navigation--right up front with instant information related to each feature. For example, when you scroll to text messaging, you'll see the number of new messages received and a single click takes take you to the newest messages. Here's how it works:

Sprint's One Click navigation interface.

• Add your favorite items to the carousel, which is a row of tiles along the bottom of your phone's home screen.
• The carousel can hold up to 15 tiles, which you can add, remove and rearrange to suit your needs.
• Highlight a tile to reveal its menu on your home screen.
• Add up to 8 "bubbles"--at-a-glance items that display on your home screen, like the weather or your daily horoscope.
• Browse and download new tiles from your phone's "Personalize Home Screen" tile. New tiles are available every two weeks.
• Press your navigation left or right key to select a tile; up or down to select a bubble or menu item.
• The "Home" tile always stays put, so you can easily get back to your default display.

The 2.0-megapixel camera can shoot still images in four resolutions--including 1600 x 1200 (2MP) 1280 x 960 (1 MP)--with three quality settings (high, medium, low). It also features a 4x digital zoom, white balance settings (Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent), multi-shot capabilities, multiple shutter sounds, and a self-timer (2-, 5-, and 10-second). You can also add color effects (including aqua, sepia, negative, and green) using the in-phone editor. In addition to stills, you can also capture video clips in short (for sending via messaging) and extended (for saving) lengths.

Other features include:

• MP3 player with airplane mode that turns off cellular connectivity while allowing you to continue to play music
• Background music mode allows you to play music while text messaging, playing games or surfing the Internet
• Live Search for Sprint, powered by Microsoft, provides easy access to directory information, integrated GPS-enabled directions, interactive maps and one-touch click to call access
• More than a dozen streaming-radio applications, including Sprint Radio with more than 150 channels
• Access to corporate and consumer (POP3) email, including AOL, Gmail and Yahoo!
• Speaker-independent Voice Dialing, including audible status reports on phone coverage, signal strength and battery life
• Voice to Action button, including call, text, picture messaging, traffic, movie, sports, news and search functions
• Multiple messaging options, including SMS, voice SMS and instant messaging
• T9 predictive text entry
• Organizer tools: Calendar, alarm clock, memo pad, world, time, calculator, tip calculator
• Vibration alert; 72-chord polyphonic ringtones
• Multilingual menus (English and Spanish)
• Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC) rating: M4/T4
• Bluetooth version 2.0 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), DUN (dial-up networking), FTP (file transfer), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PBA (transfer contacts)

Vital Statistics
The Samsung Rant weighs 4.58 ounces and measures 4.5 x 2.1 x 0.7 inches. Its 960 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.6 hours of talk time. It runs on the CDMA 800/1900 frequencies as well as Sprint's EV-DO data network.

Nicely compact and lightweight at just 3.4 ounces and 0.55 inches thin.

Quickly and accurately type messages thanks to the SureType enhanced predictive text typing technology.

Sprint Service Options
Supporting the EV-DO high-speed data standard, this phone is fully compatible with Sprint's Power Vision service (additional charges applicable). With Power Vision, you can download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Enjoy full-color video clips or live TV of the latest news, sports, and entertainment from brands you know, like CNN, Fox, The Weather Channel, NFL Mobile, and more. Power Vision also serves as a portal for enhanced games. Where coverage is available, EV-DO connectivity provides average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps, with peak rates up to 2 Mbps.

The Sprint Music Store enables you to buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song--one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that's right for you.

With Sprint TV, you can make your BlackBerry 8130 Pearl 2 your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive video service combines high-quality streaming audio and video from channels including the NFL Network, ABC, The Weather Channel, Fox Sports, E!, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and more.

The Sprint Software Store, powered by Handmark, offers a wide selection of software, games, ringtones, graphics and other Windows Mobile applications to purchase and download right to your phone.

This phone is also GPS enabled, allowing you to receive audible and visual turn-by-turn driving directions, map your location, or conduct local searches direct from your handset. BlackBerry Maps, which can conveniently guide users to their destination, now includes a local search capability that allows users to find local businesses, such as banks, hotels and restaurants, within a short driving distance. Sprint Navigation requires a separate subscription.

More than just an email companion, the Pearl 8130 also offers built-in GPS, a media player, and 2.0-megapixel camera with video capture capabilities.

Phone Features
Weighing just 3.38 ounces and just 0.55 inches thin, the Pearl 8300 manages to fit a QWERTY keyboard onto the handset's slim frame. Each button on the keyboard shares two letters and the unit automatically determines which letter is the intended one based on what it predicts you are trying to spell. This unique predictive text technology, known as SureType, makes the Pearl 8300's diminutive size possible. SureType also learns the words you use most often, further enhancing your typing speed.

It sports a large 240 x 260 screen that supports over 65,000 colors--plenty of real estate to view your e-mails, Web browser content, messaging sessions, and attachments. The venerable BlackBerry trackwheel has been replaced on this model with an innovative four-way trackball placed below the screen. On the rear of the handheld, you'll find a 2.0-megapixel camera and a self portrait mirror. The handheld's MicroSD memory card slot is located inside the device, behind the battery. There's also a standard 3.5mm headset jack that can be used with the included headset, as well as a mini-USB port for data connectivity.

The Pearl 8130 features an updated visual interface and integrates a new font rendering technology that displays characters with enhanced legibility at even the smallest point sizes. The BlackBerry Browser is further improved with a new "Page View" option that displays a full web page on the screen along with a magnifying glass that allows the user to quickly and accurately point and zoom in on a specific area of the web page. It also provides quicker access to Bookmarks and History, and supports the 3GPP RTSP Streaming protocol via EV-DO, so you can view streaming video from sites like m.youtube.com.

With a BlackBerry data plans from Sprint, you can receive e-mails instantaneously from up to 10 e-mail accounts (personal and enterprise). And with BlackBerry push technology, you don't need to retrieve your e-mail. BlackBerry devices are designed to remain on and continuously connected to the wireless network, allowing you to be discreetly notified as new e-mail arrives. Support is also built-in for viewing e-mail attachments (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, and PDF formats).

This phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity, and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, audio/video remote control, and printing. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. The integrated media player allows you to create and edit playlists right on the handset. The Pearl 8130 also features a 2 megapixel camera with 5x digital zoom and enhanced flash. The new camera also supports video capture in two resolutions: 240x180 or 176x144 for sharing via MMS.

Other features include:

• Phone as Modem Capable: Use the included USB cable to connect to laptops for a wireless modem, or choose to run this capability via Bluetooth with no USB cable requirement.
• Voice Command and Voice Activated Dialing: Built-in speaker independent voice command allows users to look up contacts, place phone calls and access key information from the device.
• Voice Notes: Make a voice note and send as an email .wmv file attachment.
• Productivity Tools: View and update your calendar, schedule appointments, checks your task list and more while you're on the go. Also includes a calculator, alarm clock and memo pad.
• Notification: Polyphonic, MIDI, MP3 ringtones plus vibrate mode
• Rating for hearing aids: M3, T3
• Instant Messaging: Connect with your IM contacts using popular applications like Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk
• 64 MB internal memory
• 3.5mm stereo headset capable
• Built-in speakerphone

Vital Statistics
The Blackberry Pearl 8130 weighs 3.4 ounces and measures 4.2 x 1.9 x 0.55 inches. Its 900 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4.6 hours of talk time, and up to 216 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/1900 CDMA frequencies and is compatible with the EV-DO data network.

The Rant's slide-out QWERTY keyboard that lets you type as fast as you talk.

Capture and share photographs with family and friends with the Rant's built-in 2-megapixel camera with night shot mode, PictBridge printing support, and video capture capabilities. Other features include Bluetooth for handsfree devices and stereo music streaming, a 600-number internal phonebook, speaker-independent voice dialing, and up to 5.6 hours of talk time.

Sprint Service
Supporting the EV-DO high-speed data standard, this phone enables you to download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Where coverage is available, EV-DO connectivity provides average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps, with peak rates up to 2 Mbps. With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive video service combines high-quality streaming audio and video from channels including the NFL Network, ABC, The Weather Channel, Fox Sports, E!, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and more.

The Sprint Music Store enables you to buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song--one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that's right for you.

This GPS-enabled phone provides optional access to Sprint Navigation for driving directions on your mobile phone--by voice and onscreen. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, Sprint Navigation will say, "Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street." As you approach the turn, you will hear, "Turn right on Elm Street." Sprint Navigation also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it's easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.

Give your Sprint Mobile Email a boost with seamless access to your corporate email and contacts. With the Sprint Mobile Email Work service, you can receive email from Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 and Lotus Notes Domino versions 6.0, 6.5 and 7.0.

Sprint One Click's customizable home screen enables you to optimize your experience by providing quick access to the things you use the most.

Phone Features
Named Best Cell Phone at the 2008 CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment conference, the Samsung Rant offers the hallmarks of a classic candybar-style phone, with alpha-numeric keypad, five way navigator and send/end/soft-navigation keys on the face, sitting below a 2.1-inch LCD screen with a a 176 x 220-pixel resolution and 262K color depth. But the Rant transforms into a messaging powerhouse thanks to the smooth horizontal slide-out, full QWERTY keyboard, which lets you type as fast as you talk.

The phone has an internal 64 MB memory, which can be expanded via optional MicroSD memory cards (up to 16 GB in size). The phonebook can store up to 600 contacts with room for up to six phone numbers, two email addresses, an IM screen name, web address, and a picture ID for each entry. Other features include display of the last 20 received/missed/outgoing calls and ringer ID capability.

This phone features Sprint's new One Click navigation interface, which places eight shortcut tiles along the bottom of the home screen. Instead of navigating through endless phone menus, you can put the things you use the most--features like call logs, texting, Web access and GPS navigation--right up front with instant information related to each feature. For example, when you scroll to text messaging, you'll see the number of new messages received and a single click takes take you to the newest messages. Here's how it works:

Sprint's One Click navigation interface.

• Add your favorite items to the carousel, which is a row of tiles along the bottom of your phone's home screen.
• The carousel can hold up to 15 tiles, which you can add, remove and rearrange to suit your needs.
• Highlight a tile to reveal its menu on your home screen.
• Add up to 8 "bubbles"--at-a-glance items that display on your home screen, like the weather or your daily horoscope.
• Browse and download new tiles from your phone's "Personalize Home Screen" tile. New tiles are available every two weeks.
• Press your navigation left or right key to select a tile; up or down to select a bubble or menu item.
• The "Home" tile always stays put, so you can easily get back to your default display.

The 2.0-megapixel camera can shoot still images in four resolutions--including 1600 x 1200 (2MP) 1280 x 960 (1 MP)--with three quality settings (high, medium, low). It also features a 4x digital zoom, white balance settings (Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent), multi-shot capabilities, multiple shutter sounds, and a self-timer (2-, 5-, and 10-second). You can also add color effects (including aqua, sepia, negative, and green) using the in-phone editor. In addition to stills, you can also capture video clips in short (for sending via messaging) and extended (for saving) lengths.

Other features include:

• MP3 player with airplane mode that turns off cellular connectivity while allowing you to continue to play music
• Background music mode allows you to play music while text messaging, playing games or surfing the Internet
• Live Search for Sprint, powered by Microsoft, provides easy access to directory information, integrated GPS-enabled directions, interactive maps and one-touch click to call access
• More than a dozen streaming-radio applications, including Sprint Radio with more than 150 channels
• Access to corporate and consumer (POP3) email, including AOL, Gmail and Yahoo!
• Speaker-independent Voice Dialing, including audible status reports on phone coverage, signal strength and battery life
• Voice to Action button, including call, text, picture messaging, traffic, movie, sports, news and search functions
• Multiple messaging options, including SMS, voice SMS and instant messaging
• T9 predictive text entry
• Organizer tools: Calendar, alarm clock, memo pad, world, time, calculator, tip calculator
• Vibration alert; 72-chord polyphonic ringtones
• Multilingual menus (English and Spanish)
• Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC) rating: M4/T4
• Bluetooth version 2.0 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), DUN (dial-up networking), FTP (file transfer), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PBA (transfer contacts)

Vital Statistics
The Samsung Rant weighs 4.58 ounces and measures 4.5 x 2.1 x 0.7 inches. Its 960 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.6 hours of talk time. It runs on the CDMA 800/1900 frequencies as well as Sprint's EV-DO data network.

The LG Lotus flip phone is hip to be square, with external music playback controls and a full QWERTY keyboard inside.

Sprint Service
Supporting the EV-DO high-speed data standard, this phone enables you to download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Where coverage is available, EV-DO connectivity provides average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps, with peak rates up to 2 Mbps. With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive video service combines high-quality streaming audio and video from channels including the NFL Network, ABC, The Weather Channel, Fox Sports, E!, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and more.

Sprint brings you closer to this season's NFL action with NFL Mobile Live, which enables you to listen to the live radio broadcasts of every NFL game throughout the 2008 regular season. Sprint is making it easier to follow a specific team by carrying a live radio broadcast for each game, including pregame and postgame reports in most instances. NFL Mobile Live also allows NFL.com fantasy owners to monitor the performance of every player in real time directly from their phone. Key information for individual players will be easily accessible, including real-time game and season cumulative stats, rankings, player profiles and photos. NFL Mobile Live is free of charge to Sprint data subscribers.

The Sprint Music Store enables you to buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song--one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that's right for you.

This GPS-enabled phone provides optional access to Sprint Navigation for driving directions on your mobile phone--by voice and onscreen. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, Sprint Navigation will say, "Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street." As you approach the turn, you will hear, "Turn right on Elm Street." Sprint Navigation also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it's easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.

With Sprint Mobile Email, you'll get easy access to your favorite home email services including AOL, Yahoo!, Gmail, and MSN/Windows Live Hotmail and more. And Sprint Mobile Email Work enables you to access email from corporate servers, including Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 and Lotus Notes Domino versions 6.0, 6.5 and 7.0 (with the latest software update).

Sprint One Click's customizable home screen enables you to optimize your experience by providing quick access to the things you use the most.

Phone Features
The innovative LG Lotus flip phone is the recipient of the Red Dot Design Award--one of the largest and most renowned design competitions in the world--for its original form factor. This square flip phone measures just 3.3 x 2.4 x 0.7 inches and weighs 3.7 ounces, making it perfectly pocketable. It has an external 1.3-inch LCD screen (160 x 128 pixels, 65K colors), which displays incoming calls and provides current time/date, signal strength, and battery life. You can control music playback when the phone is closed with dedicated buttons right below the screen.

Flipping the cover open reveals a small, full QWERTY keyboard that's ideal for quick text messaging, email or instant messaging. The interior also includes a five-way navigator, send/end keys, and soft navigation keys. This phone features Sprint's new One Click navigation interface, which places eight shortcut tiles along the bottom of the home screen. Instead of navigating through endless phone menus, you can put the things you use the most--features like call logs, texting, Web access and GPS navigation--right up front with instant information related to each feature. For example, when you scroll to text messaging, you'll see the number of new messages received and a single click takes take you to the newest messages. Here's how it works:

Sprint's One Click navigation interface.

• Add your favorite items to the carousel, which is a row of tiles along the bottom of your phone's home screen.
• The carousel can hold up to 15 tiles, which you can add, remove and rearrange to suit your needs.
• Highlight a tile to reveal its menu on your home screen.
• Add up to 8 "bubbles"--at-a-glance items that display on your home screen, like the weather or your daily horoscope.
• Browse and download new tiles from your phone's "Personalize Home Screen" tile. New tiles are available every two weeks.
• Press your navigation left or right key to select a tile; up or down to select a bubble or menu item.
• The "Home" tile always stays put, so you can easily get back to your default display.

This phone provides the latest version of Bluetooth connectivity--version 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), which makes pairing with the included headset as well as other Bluetooth devices a snap. And with EDR, you'll get a faster connection than with the previous version 1.2, which makes transferring files and using the phone as a modem for your laptop hum along nicely. And with the embedded A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of Bluetooth stereo headphones or other compatible devices. This phone also enables you to send contacts and calendar events, send pictures to a Bluetooth-enabled printer, and save up to 20 Bluetooth pairings

The 2-megapixel camera offers four resolution options for still images (1600 x 1200, 1280 x 960, 640 x 480, and 320 x 240 pixels), and it features up to a 15x digital zoom (depending on resolution setting; 1600 x 1200 does not support zoom), brightness and white balance controls, a self timer, and an in-phone image editor. You can print photos directly to compatible PictBridge printers via the included USB cable or via Bluetooth. You can also capture video clips in three resolutions (320x 240, 176 x 144, and 128 x 96 pixels), with video length of either up to 35 seconds (for sending via messaging or mail) or up to 1 hour (for saving to your memory card).

The digital music player supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, and MP4A files, and it allows you to play music in the background while you multitask in other applications on the phone. It also has an airplane mode that turns off cellular connectivity while allowing you to continue to play music. This phone is compatible with real-music ringtones, and you can also set voice memos as a ringtone. You can record voice memos up to 10 minutes in length. It comes with 33 unique ringtones and you can also set the phone to vibrate and silent modes.

Other features include:

• Personalize your phone by downloading unique ringers and assigning them to numbers in your address book so you'll know who's calling by the sound of the ring or style of animation
• Wireless Backup to manage contacts list in the event that the phone is lost, stolen or damaged
• Download and play entertaining, interactive games that you'll want to play all the time
• USB mass storage capabilities and charging via computer
• Organizer tools: alarm clock, calculator, scheduler, document viewer, notepad, world clock, EZ tip calculator
• Bluetooth version 2.1 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), DUN (dial-up networking), FTP (file transfer), HID (support for mice or joysticks), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PBA (transfer contacts)
• Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC) rating of M4 for hearing aids operating in the acoustic mode

Vital Statistics
The LG Lotus weighs 3.7 ounces and measures 3.3 x 2.4 x 0.7 inches. Its 900 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.5 hours of talk time, and up to ___ hours of standby time. It runs on the CDMA 800/1900 frequencies as well as Sprint's EV-DO data network.

The Touch Diamond's TouchFLO 3D user interface responds perfectly to your finger gestures when scrolling through contacts, browsing the web, and launching media--all vividly displayed as photos and artwork on the 2.8-inch screen powered by the 3D graphics processor. The phone also features a 4 GB internal memory, Bluetooth connectivity for both communication headsets and stereo music streaming, Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g), 3.2-megapixel camera, a built-in GPS receiver (for use with Google Maps and Sprint Navigation), multi-format digital audio player, and up to 4.2 hours of talk time.

The Touch Diamond features a sharp 2.8-inch touch screen, Wi-Fi networking, Bluetooth stereo music, and GPS navigation capabilities.

Sprint Service
Supporting the EV-DO Rev. A high-speed data standard, Sprint's Mobile Broadband Network provides blazing fast speeds on the nation's largest mobile broadband network (based on covered square miles), covering more than 15,000 cities and 1,400 airports. With EV-DO Rev. A, peak download data rates increase to 3.1 Mbps and peak upload data rates increase to 1.8 Mbps; average download speeds improve to 600 kbps to 1.4 mbps and average uplink speeds increase to 350 to 500 kbps.

The Sprint Music Store enables you to buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song--one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that's right for you. Use the Sprint Music Store to listen to music while sending text messages, browsing the Web, or playing a downloaded game. And get over 30 channels of music--Hip Hop, Top Hits, Latin Pop, music videos and shows from NPR, Sporting News and more--treamed to your phone.

With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive video service combines high-quality streaming audio and video from channels including the NFL Network, ABC, The Weather Channel, Fox Sports, E!, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and more.

This GPS-enabled phone provides optional access to Sprint Navigation for driving directions on your mobile phone--by voice and onscreen. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, Sprint Navigation will say, "Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street." As you approach the turn, you will hear, "Turn right on Elm Street." Sprint Navigation also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it's easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.

With the TouchFLO 3D interface, album artwork, calendar items and snapshots are brought to life for you to interact, play and launch at your fingertips.

Phone Features
HTC has taken a great leap forward in touch screen innovation with the introduction of its new 3D touch interface called TouchFLO 3D, which provides animated access to people, messaging, email, photos, music, weather and more with just a swipe of your finger. The home screen provides one-touch access to emails, text messages, calendar appointments and contacts. New text messages fly onto your screen--just swipe your finger to spin through recent messages or tap a message to reply. Your Email appears in an open envelope--just touch it to read it in full. In addition to Outlook email, you can also add personal accounts and Web-mail accounts like Google and Yahoo. The phone also includes touch-sensitive buttons at the bottom as well as a five-way navigational rocker.

The Touch Diamond is crafted with precision to fit comfortably in a user's hand without compromising on features or functionality. Blending contrasting design elements of metal and unique geometric facets, the Touch Diamond complements a your personal style. The 2.8-inch screen has a 480 x 640-pixel resolution--providing near-print quality viewing of photographs and crisp Web browsing--and support for 65K colors.

HTC provides a new customized mobile Web browser that enables easy viewing and effortless navigation of Web sites in the way they were designed. You can zoom and pan Web sites with one-hand and automatically view optimized content that has been specially created to fit the display. An integrated accelerometer senses when you change the position of the phone from portrait to landscape viewing, and it auto-rotates the screen's orientation.

This phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity with EDR (enhanced data rate), and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and audio/video remote control. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You'll also be able to access open Wi-Fi networks in offices and hotspots via the integrated 802.11b/g wireless connectivity. And with the embedded GPS receiver, you'll be able to easily locate your next appointment in unfamiliar cities. (Third-party software required for routing information.)

Other features include:

• 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus on the back of the phone, additional VGA camera on the front of the phone for video conferencing (requires compatible network)
• Windows Media Player compatible with MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WAV file formats
• Use the Sprint Music Store to listen to music while sending text messages, browsing the Web, or playing a downloaded game
• 4 GB of internal memory for storing all your contacts, important documents, and your favorite multimedia
• 256 MB of RAM, 192 MB of DDR RAM
• Support for polyphonic ringtones as well as real-music ringers
• Speaker-Independent Voice Dialing: Say the name of any entry in your phone book and the number is dialed automatically without using the keypad. This feature is speaker-independent, so there is no need to train the phone to respond to any one person's voice. Receive an audible status report of your phone/s coverage, signal strength, and battery strength.
• Hearing Aid Compatibility: M3
• Bluetooth version 2.0+EDR with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), DUN (dial-up networking), FTP (file transfer), HID (support for mice or joysticks), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PAN (personal area networking), PBA (transfer contacts)

Vital Statistics
The HTC Touch Diamond weighs 4.1 ounces and measures 4.0 x 2.0 x 0.6 inches. Its 1340 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4.2 hours of talk time, and up to 285 hours of standby time. This international version of the Touch Diamond runs on the 900/1800/1900 GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies as well as the 900/2100 MHz HSDPA frequencies for 3G access.

Powered by Windows Mobile 6.1
Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1 offers a number of handy features that make searching through email, editing Microsoft Office documents, and staying on top of your most important communications even easier. Emails can now be viewed in their original rich HTML format and now offer the ability to visit embedded links. It also includes Windows Live for Windows Mobile, which provides a full set of Windows Live services, such as the Windows Live Messenger IM application, which now enables you to chat with more than one person at one time or send a file.

With Windows Mobile 6.1, your phone will finally be able to emulate the power and features of your PC's Microsoft Office suite. You'll be able to neatly view, navigate and edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets in their original formatting--without affecting tables, images or text--as well as view PowerPoint presentations.

• Microsoft Office Word Mobile features include spell-check, Find and Replace commands, bulleted lists, text formatting, and support for tables for the first time.
• With Excel Mobile, you're not just confined to editing charts: with the new Chart Wizard you can create charts quickly and easily.
• PowerPoint Mobile allows you to view the full presentation, rehearse timings, check the order and any live links you may have in your presentation. You can then email comments back to the team or communicate via MSN Messenger for an immediate response.
• After creating or editing a Word document or Excel spreadsheet, you can synchronize it with your PC and it will automatically be converted to the PC version.

All Windows Mobile 6.1 powered devices include Direct Push Technology for up-to-date e-mail delivery and automatic synchronization of Outlook calendars, tasks and contacts through Microsoft Exchange Server. It also offers a set of important device security and management features that include the capability to remotely wipe all data from a device should it be lost or stolen, helping ensure that confidential information remains that way.

The Highnote provides a jog wheel for easy navigation on the phone's face.

Sprint Service
Supporting the EV-DO high-speed data standard, this phone enables you to download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Where coverage is available, EV-DO connectivity provides average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps, with peak rates up to 2 Mbps. With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive video service combines high-quality streaming audio and video from channels including the NFL Network, ABC, The Weather Channel, Fox Sports, E!, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and more.

The Sprint Music Store enables you to buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song--one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that's right for you.

Slide the Highnote's face down to expose its twin stereo speakers.

This GPS-enabled phone provides optional access to Sprint Navigation for driving directions on your mobile phone--by voice and onscreen. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, Sprint Navigation will say, "Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street." As you approach the turn, you will hear, "Turn right on Elm Street." Sprint Navigation also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it's easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.

With Sprint Mobile Email, you'll get easy access to your favorite home email services including AOL, Yahoo!, Gmail, and MSN/Windows Live Hotmail and more. Sprint's Picture Mail lets you shoot, share and print high-resolution digital photos instantly, as well as send short video clips to friends and family. And Sprint Mobile Email Work enables you to access email from corporate servers, including Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 and Lotus Notes Domino versions 6.0, 6.5 and 7.0 (with the latest software update).

Phone Features
The Samsung Highnote slider-style phone has a 2.1-inch LCD screen with a resolution of 176 x 220 pixels and a 262K color depth. Below the display is a scroll wheel for easily using Sprint's new One Click navigation interface, and it's surrounded by a silver ring that provides keys for call send/end, soft navigation, and clear.

The Highnote also features a 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth stereo music streaming, and MicroSD expansion up to 16 GB.

Being a slider phone, the face moves upward to expose the alpha-numeric keypad, but it also slides down to reveal the twin stereo speakers--enabling you to listen to your favorite music (or streaming radio station) without headphones. The phone has an internal 24 MB of user accessible memory, which can be expanded via optional MicroSD memory cards (up to 16 GB in size). The phonebook can store up to 600 contact entries, each one with room for up to six phone numbers, two email addresses, instant messaging (IM) address, URL, and notes. You can assign one of the preloaded polyphonic ringtones (as well as optional downloadable polyphonic and real-music ringers) and a photo to a contact for instant recognition of incoming calls.

Sprint's One Click navigation interface places eight shortcut tiles along the bottom of the home screen. Instead of navigating through endless phone menus, you can put the things you use the most--features like call logs, texting, Web access and GPS navigation--right up front with instant information related to each feature. For example, when you scroll to text messaging, you'll see the number of new messages received and a single click takes take you to the newest messages. Here's how it works:

Sprint's One Click navigation interface.

• Add your favorite items to the carousel, which is a row of tiles along the bottom of your phone's home screen.
• The carousel can hold up to 15 tiles, which you can add, remove and rearrange to suit your needs.
• Highlight a tile to reveal its menu on your home screen.
• Add up to 8 "bubbles"--at-a-glance items that display on your home screen, like the weather or your daily horoscope.
• Browse and download new tiles from your phone's "Personalize Home Screen" tile. New tiles are available every two weeks.
• Press your navigation left or right key to select a tile; up or down to select a bubble or menu item.
• The "Home" tile always stays put, so you can easily get back to your default display.

Handsfree communication is easy thanks to the integrated speakerphone. This phone also provides Bluetooth wireless connectivity (version 2.0), and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and file transfer. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones.

The 2-megapixel camera provides four resolution options and three quality settings. It also includes a 4x digital zoom, night shot mode for low-light situations, multi-shot and divided shot capabilities, brightness and white balance controls, spot metering, and multiple shutter sounds (with silent mode). You can also edit images on the phone (crop, rotate) and add one of 10 fun frames. The phone also captures video clips with sound in three resolutions, and you can shoot video for as long as you have available memory or cap it at 30 seconds for sending via messaging.

Other features include:

• Speaker-Independent Voice Dialing: Say the name of any entry in your phone book and the number is dialed automatically without using the keypad. This feature is speaker-independent, so there is no need to train the phone to respond to any one person's voice. Receive an audible status report of your phone/s coverage, signal strength, and battery strength.
• Live Search for Sprint, powered by Microsoft, provides easy access to directory information, integrated GPS-enabled directions, interactive maps and one-touch click to call access
• Wireless Backup to restore contact information if the device is lost, stolen or damaged
• USB connectivity
• 3.5mm headset jack
• Bluetooth version 2.0 with the following profiles: A2DP (stereo music streaming), AVRC (remote control), HFP (hands-free car kits), HSP (communication headsets), BPP (basic printing profile for text, email), FTP (file transfer), OPP (object push for business cards, calendar items, and pictures), PBA (transfer contacts)

Vital Statistics
The Samsung Highnote weighs 3.5 ounces and measures 4 x 1.9 x 0.6 inches. Its 960 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.8 hours of talk time. It runs on the 800/1900 CDMA/EV-DO frequencies.

The Samsung Ace provides fast Sprint connectivity in North America and GSM/GPRS global roaming.

When you want to wind down, enjoy favorite news, sports, weather and more with Sprint TV's rich, clear visuals and crisp sound that downloads at Broadband-like speeds. The slim, light Ace smartphone offers a full QWERTY keyboard for easy messaging and document editing, and it's complemented by a large 2.3-inch LCD screen. Other features include a 1.3-megapixel camera with video capture capabilities, Bluetooth for handsfree communication and stereo Bluetooth streaming, MicroSD memory expansion (to 2 GB), digital audio player featuring synchronization with Windows Media Player, and up to 4 hours of talk time.

Sprint Service
With quad-band capabilities, the Samsung ACE also operates globally on CDMA and GSM/GPRS networks (900/1800 MHz) where Sprint has international roaming agreements. (Note that this phone is not compatible with GSM networks found in the United States.) With the Samsung ACE, you can make or receive calls in approximately 180 countries and access professional and personal email, view documents and files, surf the web, and sync your Outlook calendar in nearly 100 countries.

A Sprint-provided SIM card is provided pre-installed in the device for customers who wish to utilize Sprint International Roaming Services (special activation required) while traveling abroad. In addition to taking advantage of any Sprint International Roaming services, Sprint customers can also use a third-party SIM for international voice and data services, providing greater flexibility for their global communications needs.

Supporting the EV-DO high-speed data standard, this phone enables you to download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Where coverage is available, EV-DO connectivity provides average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps, with peak rates up to 2 Mbps. This device is backwards compatible to 1XRTT technology in areas where EV-DO is not yet available.

With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive video service combines high-quality streaming audio and video from channels including the NFL Network, ABC, The Weather Channel, Fox Sports, E!, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and more.

Sprint's On Demand service provides up-to-date information on sports, weather, news, money and more customized to the your zip code

The QWERTY keyboard features backlighting, and it's complemented by a thumbwheel for easy one-handed navigation.

Phone Features
Similar in design to Samsung's popular Blackjack smartphone, the easily pocketable Ace has an ultra-thin candybar form factor that measures 0.46 inches thin and weighs 3.9 ounces. The 2.3-inch LCD screen with a 320 x 240-pixel resolution and 65K color depth sits above a five-way navigation pad with thumb wheel for easy one-handed operation. It's complemented by standard send/end keys and soft navigation keys as well as a shortcut key to the Today screen. The QWERTY keyboard features keys with a soft pointed edge for easier typing, and the backlit keypad makes it easy to work in low light conditions. This smartphone has 96 MB of RAM and 192 MB of ROM memory, and it can be expanded via optional MicroSD memory cards up to 2 GB in size.

The included Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Smartphone software with Direct Push technology gives you instant access to your emails, calendar, and contacts at anytime. That means wherever and whenever, you'll be connected. A single main screen summarizes all the important information you need to make it through the day. Here you'll get message notification, upcoming appointments, dialing functions, tasks, and more all in one spot. Staying productive on the road is made possible by the Microsoft Office Mobile suite, which includes Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, and PowerPoint Mobile. Meanwhile, the File Explorer application makes it easy to browse the files.

It also supports Windows Media playback right out of the box. With Windows Media Player, you can play streaming and downloaded video and audio content in a variety of formats. You can also keep favorite tunes loaded on a memory card and listen to your music wherever you roam.

Handsfree communication is easy thanks to the integrated speakerphone. This phone also provides Bluetooth wireless connectivity (version 2.0), and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and file transfer. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking--surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server (requires Phone As Modem Service Plan).

Other features include:

• Productivity tools: PDF viewer, voice recorder, notepad, calculator, world clock, measurement converter
• 1.3-megapixel camera with choice of three sizes, three quality settings, brightness adjustment, multi-shot capabilities, and 4x digital zoom
• Video capture up to QVGA resolution (320 x 240 pixels)
• Microsoft ActiveSync technology offers one of the best PC to mobile device sync experiences, making it easier to configure with faster data transfer and sync accuracy.
• Access to the Sprint Software Store provided by Handmark, where you can find, download and buy software, games, ringtones, graphics and other Windows Mobile Pocket PC applications simply and securely.
• Hands-free operation of your phone is made easy with the built-in speakerphone, allowing you to take a conference call virtually anywhere
• MP3 ringtones
• Voice recorder
• Multi-lingual menus (English and Spanish)

Vital Statistics
The Samsung Ace weighs 3.9 ounces and measures 4.65 x 2.32 x 0.46 inches. Its 1300 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4 hours of talk time, and up to 240 hours (10 days) of standby time. It runs on the 800/1900 CDMA/EV-DO frequencies in the United States as well as 900/1800 MHz GSM/GPRS frequencies outside North America.

Powered by Windows Mobile 6

Windows Mobile 6 adds power to your mobile office with up-to-date e-mail delivery and automatic synchronization of Outlook calendars.

Edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets on your phone, just as you would on your desktop/laptop PC.

Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 updates the Windows Mobile 5 platform with a number of handy features that make searching through email, editing Microsoft Office documents, and staying on top of your most important communications even easier. Emails can now be viewed in their original rich HTML format and now offer the ability to visit embedded links. It also includes Windows Live for Windows Mobile, which provides a full set of Windows Live services, such as the Windows Live Messenger IM application, which now enables you to chat with more than one person at one time or send a file.

With Windows Mobile 6, your phone will finally be able to emulate the power and features of your PC's Microsoft Office suite. You'll be able to neatly view, navigate and edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets in their original formatting--without affectin