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It’s Saturday. Anxious preteens and closet fanatics alike crowd the rear of the Harvard Square Sprint Store, eagerly anticipating the arrival of MTV Real World cast members Ace, from the Paris season, and Cameran and Randy, of the currently running San Diego season. Representatives from JAMN 94.5 provide a festive hip hop background and an equally festive aesthetic background with their matching red t-shirts and gelled hair. The stage...
...fans wait, Sprint Sales associates strategically wield their latest “got-to-have” product: the Sanyo VM 4500, a color camera flip-phone with a built in camcorder feature. David M. Baesler, vice president of sales for Sanyo US, has made a special trip to Cambridge in order to extol the virtues of Sanyo camera-phones to hungry Real World fanatics, as well as FM. “Camera phones have started to take over in the U.S.,” Baesler boasts...
However, what is little more than a routine stop for these seasoned media entities is, to adoring civilians, like, the apex of human existence. A number of Harvardians, students and otherwise, clamor to have their Sprint PCS promotional fliers autographed by the cast members...
Fans bide their waiting time by entering to win Sprint phones, MTV memorabilia, and a dinner with the cast members later that evening at Brother Jimmy’s. For the dinner, Emily W. Porter ’04 is chosen out an overflowing box of contest entries. The Burberry-clad Harvard senior is visibly surprised. “Honestly, I just came here with my friend. I am very shocked,” Porter says. “Free food is always good. They better pay well with all those endorsements...
...only limited use. You recorded a name and later, if you said it exactly the way you did the first time, the phone might make the call. Now a new class of phones is speaker independent: anyone can say a name and, in theory, the phone will call. Sprint PCS sells three such phones--the Samsung A600 ($350), VGA1000 ($260) and new VI660 ($230). Verizon Wireless introduced similar voice recognition last fall in the Samsung i600 Smartphone ($500) and this week follows it up with the VX4500 from LG ($120). We programmed the four new models with identical phone books...