Verizon,
Alltel,
Sprint, Cingular,
T-Mobile -- that looks to be the order of American major network
KRZR releases now that Cingular's flavor has officially hit the streets. With nothing more than EDGE to shore up its data offering, the K1 isn't exactly a tech powerhouse, but we somehow suspect that the fashion-friendly lines, gloss, and touch controls will sell themselves to a fairly sizable (and profitable) demographic. Cingular customers can put a little piece of Motorola's (in)famous industrial design in their pockets today for $200 after contract and rebates, and on that note, we'd just like to gently remind folks that this is a good hundie over and above the smarter
3125. We're just sayin'.
[Thanks, Matt]
Update: Whoa there, Cingy! Let's cool it there with the stealing of your competitors' shots, eh? Several readers have astutely noted that the phone being shown on Cingular's site is a CDMA K1m, not a GSM K1 -- and if you look really closely, you'll even notice that the word "Sprint" is visible in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. You're not going all CDMA on us, are you, Cingular? [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Al M. @ Jan 11th 2007 10:00AM
Not only is Cingular's customer service and sales the most incompetent I've even experienced, but clearly their web site guys are idiots too. That's a CDMA black K1M. The Cingular K1 is the standard blue GSM KRZR without the touch sensitive media controls on the front.
raulr @ Jan 11th 2007 10:41AM
Why the Cingular have a picture of the CDMA Krzr, K1m? The GSM version has no touch controls on the flip.
fincher @ Jan 11th 2007 10:45AM
Al, that is the picture shown on Cingy's site. Click on the picture and you'll see. Don't be so quick with the trigger.
theburn16 @ Jan 11th 2007 11:15AM
awesome, i told y'all about this 2 days ago and today you decide to post it and thank somebody else for the info...
Al M. @ Jan 11th 2007 11:45AM
fincher, don't follow your post. i know its the picture on cingular's site, which is why i criticized their web design people (lumping them in with their incompetent sales and support). read someone's post more thoroughly before you comment so that you're not so "quick with the trigger" next time.
raulr @ Jan 11th 2007 2:52PM
fincher,
I too was saying why does Cingular have a picture of a K1m.
CDMA Guy @ Jan 11th 2007 2:59PM
WOW..another newly launched device that runs on EDGE..I like your strategy Cingular! Lets make lots of new devices that run on what is the slowest "pseudo" 3-G network in the world.
bob the builder @ Jan 11th 2007 7:22PM
yeah, that is most definitely a sprint phone. only the sprint krazr has the "back" button next to the right arrow key and that other key next to the left button... and only the sprint phone has the "m" symbol on the screen, i guess to signify that you access the menu via clicking on the center button. besides, there's no outer buttons on the k1.
Justin @ Jan 11th 2007 9:37PM
What really gets me is that on the picture with the phone fliped open, on the screen on the top left it even says Sprint!!!!!
dvddesign @ Jan 12th 2007 5:52PM
I just bailed on the motophones cause I figured I wanted features more than the style.
Bought a w810i instead. REALLY impressed with it.
Joe F @ Jan 12th 2007 5:59PM
The picture has been fixed on Cingular.com. Everyone happy?
fincher @ Jan 12th 2007 9:06PM
Al M. and raulr, you are correct! My bad. I should have been more careful.
bnboo @ Jan 16th 2007 2:05AM
Finally! Best Buy was selling an unlocked on for $400 and I'm not too confident on iPhone getting my money for at least their 2nd gen phones.