Instinct Plan vs Iphone Plan

We were a bit sad 3 days ago when we had to talk about iPhone 3G’s sales that broke records, without having enough details from Sprint, to make a fair comparison with the Instinct. Fortunately, Derek Pruett from M80 send us a detailed price comparison fact sheet about Sprint’s Everything plans and AT&T’s Nation plans.
Let’s see what each of these provide!

The Simply Everything Plan costs $99.99 and packages unlimited talking, texting, emailing, web browsing, GPS navigation, picture messaging, video messaging, push-to-talk, NFL Mobile, NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile, Sprint TV, 150 radio stations and channels, and access to Sprint Music Store. All these with unlimited access, as i specified. The deal is that you won’t have to add additional costs for extras, but to reduce it if you don’ need all of those service. In other words, this plan allows you to make economies and pay only what you need to use. For example, when you go lower, at $89.99, you get 900 Anytime Minutes and unlimited access to messaging, Direct Connect and Group Connect, and Mobile Internet via Sprint’s EV-DO Rev A high-speed mobile broadband connectivity. According to Sprint, its EVDO Rev A network offers five times more mobile broadband coverage than the AT&T 3G network, based on square miles.

At $69.99 you have 450 minutes and access to all the other three services. You can do another smart thing if you like, to go for $89.99 choosing Unlimited Domestic Voice, messaging and Connect services, but give up to the Internet, or, if it’s in your advantage, at $69.99 you can also get the package containing 900 Anytime Minutes, unlimited messaging and Connect. For $49.99 you can opt for 450 minutes, messaging and Connect, with no Internet access.



All plans from Sprint Everything include Nationwide Long Distance, no Domestic Roaming Charges, unlimited nights and weekend minutes with nights starting at 7PM, and unlimited Mobile to Mobile.
The two cell phone plan comparisons show that the $99 Sprint plan provides unlimited voice, data and messaging, while AT&T’s plan costs $129.99 and includes only voice and data services.
You can send text messages on Samsung Instinct as many as you want, but if you have an iPhone subscribed as an individual, it will cost you $20 extra, and in case you have a family plan you can add $10 more.
Instinct comes with unlimited night & weekend minutes after 7PM which is annoying, but the iPhone will make you nervous and unpatient 2 hours more, until 9PM.

One last thing before showing you the chart received from Sprint:
The Sprint Samsung Instinct includes Blackberry Internet Service, Sprint Music Premier (50 commercial-free streaming music channels, 100 local stations), Sprint TV Premier (25+ channels of live TV, on-demand clips and full-length episodes), NFL Mobile Live and NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile. Guess what? -AT&T does not include Blackberry Internet Service, streaming music channels, on-demand full-length TV episodes, NFL Mobile or NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile. More money for less entertainment? Kinda sad.

And let’s not forget that iPhone 3G 8GB and 16GB costs $199 and $299. They are cheap but requiring a 2-year contract. If not, you’d find them at $599 and $699, respectively.
On the other side, its competitor can be purchased at $129.99 with the 2-year contract and $100 mail-in rebate, or at $449.99 with no contract.