Sprint and Samsung Mobile today
announced the immediate availability of the M520 by Samsung. This slider phone allows customers to access the Web,
find local restaurants, watch live television, download their favorite
songs, send text messages or use GPS to find their way home.
As the first Power Vision phone, the M520 by Samsung offers a robust multi-tasking capability that
gives customers the ability to play music in background mode while
also using the phone for text messaging, playing games or surfing the
Internet.
Operating on the Sprint Mobile Broadband network, the M520 by
Samsung provides access to Sprint exclusive services and multimedia
content, including:
- Sprint Navigation, powered by Telenav, with GPS-enabled audio
and visual turn-by-turn driving directions, one-click traffic
rerouting and more than 10 million local listings. - Live Search for Sprint, by Microsoft, gives voice-enabled
access to directory information on-the-go, GPS-enabled
directions, interactive maps and one-touch click to call
access. - Sprint Music Store allowing users to browse and wirelessly
download full-length songs directly to their phone from a
selection of more than 1.8 million songs for just 99 cents
each; - Sprint TV with more than 50 channels of live and on-demand
video and audio; - Sprint Exclusive Entertainment (SEE), the industry’s only
made-for-mobile sports and entertainment video programming
network.
(Standard data charges apply to all downloads.)
This M520 is now available in all Sprint retail channels
including www.sprint.com and 1-800-SPRINT1. Pricing for the M520 by
Samsung is just $49.99 with a $50 mail-in rebate and 2-year contract
($249.99 SRP.) It measures 4.01” x 2.04” x 0.5” when closed and weighs
less than 2.8 ounces.
“We are pleased to introduce this simple-to-use and inexpensive
slider phone into our robust Power Vision portfolio,” said Danny
Bowman, Sprint’s vice president of Customer Equipment. “Accessing
services that are useful and entertaining is truly effortless with the
M520 by Samsung. Customers will appreciate the uncomplicated menus and
smooth multi-tasking capabilities.”
This device is packed with helpful essentials including Web
access, SMS voice and text messaging, Phone as Modem, picture caller
ID, Wireless Backup and a MicroSD slot supporting up to 4GB of memory
(64MB card enclosed.) Additional features of the M520 by Samsung
include stereo Bluetooth with audio caller ID that enables the user
to identify callers with a spoken voice while they listen to music and
a 1.3 megapixel camera with 2x digital zoom and camcorder
functionality.