US Cellular readying its own iPhone rival
updated 08:45 am EDT, Mon September 29, 2008
Samsung Delve Leak
Relatively small national carrier US Cellular will have its own full touchscreen device by the end of the year, a leak stemming from BGR would suggest. The Samsung Delve would be cosmetically very similar to the Instinct at Sprint but would have physical call/answer buttons instead of touch-sensitive controls on the earlier phone; it would also carry Samsung's stock TouchWiz interface with widget support in place of Sprint's custom-designed software. A full HTML web browser is still part of the design.
In return for the less specialized software, the two-megapixel cameraphone will have several preloaded apps, including built-in clients for Facebook and MySpace as well as US Cellular's Toneroom store for buying ringtones and YourNavigator for assisted GPS.
The Delve should be available sometime in mid-November, but hasn't been given a price by the alleged insider. Sprint currently sells the equivalent Instinct for $129 with a two-year plan.
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I used to the a US Cellular customer and they are fantastic. Their coverage is great and they hit it way out of the ballpark on Customer Service. I'm using an iPhone now and am very unhappy with AT&T's coverage. I'm a Machead from way back but if US Cellular comes out with anything comparable to the iPhone, I'm going to bite the cancellation fees on my AT&T contract and go back to US Cellular.