Welcome to Sprint Phones, a part of infoSync Reviews. Here you'll find in-depth reviews of Sprint phones by RIM, HTC, Palm, Samsung, Motorola, Sanyo and LG. If you don't find the Sprint phone you're looking for here, please check out the following resources: Resource Center for Cell Phones, Ask The Editors and Expert Guides.
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| Samsung Reclaim |
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 The Samsung Reclaim may not be as green as the Motorola W233 Renew on T-Mobile, but while the former phone made compromises on features and design, the Reclaim feels much more like a regular old feature phone that also happens to be fairly green. How green is it? Well, some of it is made out of corn, most of it is recyclable, and the documentation is printed on soy ink. Is that green enough? Then enjoy Sprint's One Click interface, our favorite for simple feature phones, which gives you a customizable carousel of tabs to quickly access key features like Sprint Navigation and the Sprint Music Store, as well as your favorite social networks like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. The Samsung Reclaim doesn't feel as green as the Moto device, but it doesn't feel like such a compromise, either. Release: August 2009. Price: $50.
Pros: More recyclable, and made from more renewable materials. Full featured 3G feature phone. Great One Click interface design from Sprint.
Cons: Call quality wasn't great.
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| Sprint Tour |
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 The BlackBerry Tour on Sprint finally brings the updated BlackBerry OS to the Now Network, and the Sprint Tour is undoubtedly the best BlackBerry device the carrier has to offer. Unfortunately, as so many other smartphones pass RIM by, the Sprint Tour is less and less exciting with each day. The hardware looks and feels solid, for a BlackBerry, and it seems like RIM has stopped innovating in their phone designs. Thanks to diligent work by RIM building some very useful apps to connect to the major social networking and instant messaging services, the BlackBerry Tour isn't too buttoned up for business, and it makes a solid all-around choice. In fact, the phone has great multimedia features for music playback and sync and one of the most competent video players we've used on a smartphone. The screen is also fantastic, perhaps the best we've seen on a business device in this form factor. Still, more and more the BlackBerry platform is showing its age. The Web browser is nearly useless compared to the desktop quality browsers you'll find on other advanced smartphones, even on new Windows Mobile devices like the HTC Snap. The calendar and messaging apps, while powerful enough, were downright ugly to use, and the phone still relies heavily on long, confusing, textual menus for settings and advanced features. The Sprint Tour also lacks Wi-Fi, and it's one of the more sluggish BlackBerry phones we've used. For those reasons we find the BlackBerry Bold on AT&T or BlackBerry Curve 8900 on T-Mobile easier to recommend. Release: July 2009. Price: $200.
Pros: Sleek BlackBerry design with the best BlackBerry screen yet. Great selection of apps for social networking, instant messaging. Sports package for NFL, NASCAR and MLB fans.
Cons: Sluggish performance. Web browser falling farther behind the competition. No Wi-Fi option, though we know future Sprint smartphones will have Wi-Fi.
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| HTC Snap (Sprint) |
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_it00.jpg) The HTC Snap on Sprint is a nice phone with some solid features, but it may just be outclassed by the competition. We like the solid scheduling and messaging features, and we would have liked the Inner Circle feature if it had worked properly. We appreciate the improved Web browsing with Internet Explorer 6, which finally brings Windows Mobile a little closer to the best browsing phones on the market. We loved the extra large battery, and the slim form appealed to us, even if the specific plastics and materials didn't. Problem is, two other versions of the same phone were already announced, the HTC Ozone on Verizon Wireless and the T-Mobile Dash 3G. Both of these have all of the best features of the HTC Snap (aside from Inner Circle, which we don't consider a best feature), and go farther with Wi-Fi. Plus, the starting price for the Sprint HTC Snap seems awfully high in comparison. The improved features and rounded look mean this phone is ready to compete with the BlackBerry Curve, but really it's biggest competition might be itself. Release: June 2009. Price: $100.
Pros: Good business features, like scheduling and productivity apps. Improved Web browsing. Great battery life.
Cons: Keyboard took some getting used to. Inner Circle was not a reliably useful feature. Call quality wasn't up to par.
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| Palm Pre |
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 The Palm Pre is a very good phone, and an exciting addition to the smartphone world. We enjoyed our time with the phone, and would have no trouble recommending the phone. But to who would we recommend it? iPhone users might be put off by the less intuitive interface, which would be a shame because they would miss the snappy feel of the e-mail and address book apps. BlackBerry fans might gripe about the smaller QWERTY with those grippy keys. That would be too bad, because the Palm Pre does all the great consolidation of e-mail, contacts and messaging that BlackBerry users take for granted, but extends these to social networking and Internet search, as well. So, here's how to know if you should buy the Pre. Do you use Gmail, Exchange and a variety of e-mail and scheduling services? Do you text, twitter, Google Chat and send messages over Facebook? Do you have dozens of duplicate phone book entries that need some organization? If so, the Palm Pre is an impressive way to bring a lot of disparate services together in an organized, intelligent way, and it might be the smartphone for you. Release: June 2009. Price: $200.
Pros: Beautiful, fast interface with innovative, useful new features. Great hardware design. Very good contacts, messaging and multimedia integration.
Cons: Interface has a steep learning curve. Camera and multimedia functions good, but can't compete with the best.
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| Palm Treo Pro (Sprint) |
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_it00.jpg) With the Palm Treo Pro, Palm has created a competent piece of Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional hardware, but we're less enthusiastic about WinMo 6.1 every day. The Palm Treo Pro on Sprint seems an anathema to the ease of use and simplicity that Palm has always championed. Where Sprint got involved, adding trial programs and bloat by the handful, things are confused and redundant. Where Microsoft took over, with the underwhelming Internet Explorer 6 and the Windows Mobile interface, the phone is unreliable and sluggish. It wasn't all bad. The phone looks great from the outside, and we enjoyed the fast networking speeds and GPS performance. For pure business purposes, Windows Mobile is still tops for scheduling and productivity. That said, even Microsoft acknowledges that Windows Mobile 6.1 is behind the times, and if the Palm Treo Pro was the last Windows Mobile phone Palm produced, we would be satisfied closing the door on this chapter in the company's history. Release: March 2009. Price: $200.
Pros: Nice, sleek design. Fast network speeds.
Cons: Lousy interface. Poor call quality and calling features. Confusing mish-mash of additional, third party apps hurts almost every feature. Internet Explorer 6 doesn't live up to expectations.
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