Comments on: Sprint Cancels Samsung i550 Smartphone

This move cuts down the smartphone variety Sprint PCS has to offer--from a Palm OS Standfield--I'd rather have a high-quality smartphone rather than something that is of inferior quality.

Haji To Shirei--What a Disgrace in Japanese.

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It's been painfully obvious that Samsung has never had its heard in its pitiful line of Palm OS-based smartphones. Whenever the original 66mhz Dragonball one launched late and with no SD slot, I knew it was a lost cause. Samsung is not like Sony--they will not keep chipping away at a product or segment of the market until they make inroads. If it doesn't meet with initial success and acceptance, then they are out of the game and on to the Next Big Thing.

It's a shame that both P1 and Sprint feel compelled to put all of their eggs in the Treo 650 basket. It's a nice unit, sure, but NOT worth the $ and still has a number of glaring flaws that have not been rectified (No, a free 128mb SD card doesn't count!)

I wish Verizon could somehow deviate slightly from their stringent policy to at least get a few more smartphones out faster. I wonder if Samsung'll try to shop this one to Verizon?

My guess for why this decision REALLY happened is that Sprint doesn't want to invest a ton of $ into new handhsets until all of the details are worked out for migrating at least some of the Nextel users into the Sprint fold.

Also, I wonder if this a harbinger of a clamshell Treo to come later this year from P1?? Hmmmm.

Too bad. Assuming it's a good phone, I like the design of that more than the Treo, and would be much more likly to get one. Of course, these "smart phones" always cost more than buying a high end PDA and phone, and are always the equivalents of low end PDAs.

The only thing I didn't like about the Samsung Palm phones from Sprint was that you couldn't download any firmware updates. You were forced to go to a Sprint store to get the upgrade and many locations weren't setup to do it. It was really annoying. Other than that, I thought they made some decent phones.

I really don't understand what is Samsung strategy for Palm OS!

Palmsource claims Samsung is working on Cobalt 6.1! This is the thing I don't really understand, if Samsung now produces a great PDA/Phone based on cobalt 6.1, they could steal Palmone’s business easily, so what are they waiting for? Why, as a palm OS licensee, hasn't Samsung taken Palm OS seriously considering it's huge customer base?

... this was the phone I wanted. Waited since first reported.

Cancelling Sprint account.

Leaving Palm OS.

Going Cingular most likely.

Going Windows SmartPhone 2003 OS.

Stupid moves but no other option is no other option.

I can not stand holding a tablet to my head to talk to, can not stand open face devices, can not stand thumb keyboards, and can not stand Treo design.

For me the only thing missing from the Samsung SPH-i550 is Bluetooth and/or Wi-Fi but I can do without either one happily.

Seize the moment!