Sprint Releases Their First Green Phone, the Samsung Replenish

Sprint made an announcement today that their releasing their first green-approved phone, the Samsung Replenish, this may. The phone continues Sprint’s efforts to become the most eco-friendly player in the U.S mobile market.

The phone isn’t too shabby either, but it’s nothing to get excited about either, unless your into all that green nonsense. If you sign up for a two year contract it only costs $49.99. For that price you get a 2.8 touch QWERTY interface, 3 MP camera, Wi-Fi support a microSD slot and Android 2.2. The Replenish is also made of a pretty impressive 82% recycled materials.

Sprint also announced a solar battery charger accessory for the phone that will also be available in may and a Green ID pack that will come pre-loaded in the phone (I assume) and fill it with all sorts of hippyware, such as Treehugger.com and Earth911.com, apps that will allow you to do such things as find energy efficient lighting and locally grown produce.

• Source: ZDnet
• By: syeed@techsual.com

Sprint Speaks Out Against AT&T, T-MOBILE Duopoly

 

Sprint is now officially against AT&T’s 39 Billion dollar acquisition of T-Mobile. They put out a press release asking the U.S government to block the deal and prevent AT&T and Verizon from creating a new Ma Bell duopoly.

In the press statement Sprint states that “AT&T and Verizon  are already by far the largest wireless providers” and that “If approved, the proposed acquisition would create a combined company that would be almost three times the size of Sprint in terms of wireless revenue…”

This isn’t much of a surprise seeing how, just last Tuesday Sprint’s CEO Dan Heese spoke out against the acquisition during his talk at CTIA. His biggest concern seems to be that if AT&T and T-Mobile are allowed to merge it will hurt innovation by hurting competition, something I can’t disagree with at all.

I honestly hate the idea of losing choices in anything so maybe I’m a bit biased, I’m sure there’s lots of people out there who want the ease of only having one or two choices, right? Nobody wants a bunch of companies creating and releasing new devices and upgraded OS’ all the time, that causes fragmentation (sorry couldn’t help it), and I’m damn sure nobody wants all those annoying new devices that a competitive market creates. Right?

Source: Engadget