AT&T's Samsung a877 in the wild -- and on sale

by Chris Ziegler posted Mar 10th 2009 at 9:17PM

From render to Craiglist in a few minutes flat -- not bad for a phone that won't officially be on sale for a few weeks yet, as far as we can tell. A Samsung a877 for AT&T has popped up with an asking price of $400, complete with pictures to prove that the phone is the real deal; interestingly, it's identified as the Eternity, which we're assuming is a misunderstanding on the seller's part since the Samsung Eternity has already been at retail for a few months now. Of course, that leads us to suspect the remainder of the specs listed here, including MediaFLO-based AT&T Mobile TV, which -- call us skeptical -- we suspect the a877 doesn't support. All told, $400 doesn't seem bad to get your hands on technology that AT&T doesn't intend for you to have yet -- just don't, you know, expect any support from reps when you can't get your email.

[Thanks, Speedmaster]

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, ATT, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Tags: a877, att, craigslist, qwerty, samsung, sgh-a877, slider

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Jack @ Mar 10th 2009 9:32PM

looks like somebody bought it-- it's gone

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ashton @ Mar 10th 2009 9:50PM

Im sure its more likely that the idiot just put the wrong pic up for an eternity, got a bunch of inquiries and removed it.

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VMan @ Mar 10th 2009 10:02PM

this phone would be a good if android was on it

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haX0r @ Mar 10th 2009 11:07PM

"This posting has been deleted by its author."

I guess Sammy sent someone an email....

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Eric @ Mar 12th 2009 11:32AM

I'm going to be that this handset will NOT support MediaFLO since all previous MediaFLO phones usually have the MediaFLo icon front and center on the menu key. Just a thought. I'm really excited actually about selling this phone (I'm a retail sales rep). Since we got rid of the Quickfire, there has been a huge demand for a phone like this. I might actually carry this phone for a couple days just to try out the AMOLED with CV.