Samsung Instinct

Earlier today the news came in that Sprint was dropping the price of their upcoming Samsung Instinct from $299 to $199 to keep up with the price reduction on the new 3G iPhone. The real price of the phone starts at $449 but with the new $100 rebate and a new 2yr agreement it reaches the new $199 price point.

As noted earlier, Instinct users will be required to purchase a Simply Everything plan from Sprint starting at $69.99 and going up to $99.99. Interested in picking up the Instinct when it hits shelves next Friday (6/20/08) and you have a Family Plan? Not so fast, says Sprint.

I called in and spoke with Sprint today about the plan options and discovered that if you’re transitioning from a Family Plan to an Everything Plan to get the Samsung Instinct you’ll need to switch to multiple plans. The cheapest option would be to add a roughly $40 line to your $70 minimum Everything Plan. Grrr…

Not so fast, says Sprint again. Starting Monday, June 16th 2008, Sprint will be introducing a new Family Everything Plan. While no specific pricing was revealed I’m assuming, based on previous data, that Sprint will charge $10 per additional line to the base Everything Plan. However, considering Everything’s tend to use, well, everything Sprint may decide to increase the “add a line” cost to this option.

Thankfully my plans to pick up the Samsung Instinct on Friday have been saved, because honestly, if I had to go from a $70 shared plan to a $140 to get the Instinct, I would have passed. Good thinking, Sprint.

Update: Sprint put out the details for their new plans and it’s not that improved, but it is “simplified” which is what they said they wanted. The cheapest shared “everything” plan will be $130 for two lines. If you want to have 2 lines with one on “everything” and the other as just a basic talk plan then you’ll be back at $70 for the “everything” and $40 for the basic plan for a $110 total.

I’m very disappointed that Sprint won’t let you add a basic talk to an “everything” plan for $10/line like you used to be able to do with regular family plans.

Read more about Sprint’s Samsung Instinct which releases on Friday, June 20, 2008.

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