You are looking at a picture of the Samsung sph-z400. Yes it is homely, but my current Motorola i530 ain’t pretty neither. Ever since my old phone came off my pocket while coming down the caged ladder in the Attic catwalk and had its screen hinge blasted apart after several collisions on its way down to the concrete I have been waiting for the new Nextel Direct Connect phones to come out. I am currently using a revived i530 that had been left for dead, but I want something better.
The phone matches some of what I want: no antenna sticking up out of the top, clamshell design, camera, works with Nextel Direct Connect. However, it is missing wifi. I really want a device I can use for accessing network data and security camera images.
This is exciting since Sprint has been killing off Nextel for a while now. They are losing much of the spectrum that the Nextel Direct Connect iDEN network runs on. Sprint wants to move all their users to the same system, but Sprint users cannot currently do Direct Connect with Nextel users. Since is used heavily by companies or extended organizations it is difficult to move a few people over at a time. Now Qualcomm’s QChat has the ability to do direct connect over CDMA and reach all Sprint/Nextel subscribers. Since Sprint has been killing off the old system, nobody has been making really good Nextel phones for a while. Hopefully that will change soon. After all, as of right now the clock on QChat runs out in January 2009.
Information found via PhoneScoop.com. For some real excitement, check out the FCC filing.
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