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Sprint to Spend $100 Mil. On Anti-iPhone Adverts

Submitted by Michael Johnston on May 7, 2008 - 3:54pm.
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Sprint has spent $100 million on an advertising campaign which directly targets the iPhone's weaknesses. The two ads we've seen are aimed at the iPhone's slow EDGE speeds and lack of true GPS support. The ads will begin running on May 9th and cost Sprint almost 40x the amount of a single 30 second superbowl ad. Ads following after the jump!

Now here's the thing about these two ads, slow data speeds and faux GPS are undoubtedly going to be addressed by the next rev of the iPhone. Honestly, we're not sure if we should laugh at Samsung, or feel sorry for them. Granted, Apple hasn't officially given any word on new iPhones, but with all the speculation lately, you'd think Sprint would wait and see what Apple has up their sleeves.


There's no doubt that these ads will negatively influence some who are on the fence, but $100 mil. doesn't seem like a sensible amount to win over such a small minority.

[via Gizmodo]

Submitted by Hans on May 7, 2008 - 5:38pm.
haha phone that isn't out yet vs iphone that will soon be old generation!
oh you win samsung, you win

Too bad...

Submitted by *iPhonelessinVA (not verified) on May 7, 2008 - 6:41pm.
Too bad, so sad... with the second gen. iPhone coming soon, not to mention the App Store for natively run apps, Samsung's 'Instinct', will soon become EXTINCT!!! (chuckling in the background)...

Submitted by agent6998 on May 7, 2008 - 7:43pm.
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Originally Posted by *iPhonelessinVA View Post
Too bad, so sad... with the second gen. iPhone coming soon, not to mention the App Store for natively run apps, Samsung's 'Instinct', will soon become EXTINCT!!! (chuckling in the background)...
Muahahahaha! LOL now that was funny. So true. The next gen iPhone will Pwn!

Submitted by *gts197 (not verified) on May 7, 2008 - 7:50pm.
this is such a stupid commercial.

Well...

Submitted by *xxporkxsodaxx (not verified) on May 7, 2008 - 8:18pm.
Considering that the iPhone is going to have more and more apple updates, and most likely the instinct won't, I would still cherish my iPhone because it will continue to get better while the instinct levels out the day you buy it.

Submitted by Pepper on May 7, 2008 - 8:36pm.
this is like the time Microsoft compared Internet Explorer 7 to Mozilla Firefox 2.....when firefox 2 had been out for a while.

Bad commercial

Submitted by Stephen007 on May 8, 2008 - 8:22am.
Being as objective as I can be... I think that commercial sucks! It's a long, boring commercial just to make a point that they have true GPS. And agreeing with the above... when Apple updates the phone to *have* GPS this commercial is completely marginalized.