Samsung's Robin, Flipper, and Spear?
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Dec 12th 2006 10:50AM
posted Dec 12th 2006 10:50AM
We're always up for getting to the bottom of corporate conspiracies to shield our eyes from upcoming products. This time the culprit is Samsung (along with its partners in crime, Verizon, Cingular, and Sprint), which sent out a rough copy of a press release introducing new products to be showcased at CES; in it, they made mention of three phones that are now mysteriously missing from the final release on Samsung's site. Our good friend Sascha Segan over at Gearlog keenly picked them out: the i760 "Robin" for Verizon, the "Spear" for Cingular, and the "Flipper" for Sprint. Now, we've previously heard of a 3G (albeit HSDPA, not EV-DO) Pocket PC going by the i760 monker, but the Spear and Flipper are both totally fresh to us. Sascha has since picked up on some intel that the Flipper might be the F300, but it's all speculation at this point. Care to elaborate, Samsung, or are ya going to make us wait for CES?
PLEASE LET ONE BE THE HTC LIBRA! I have been holding out for months! I need a new phone!
The Flipper (M620) is coming to Sprint in April.
I personally don't like the idea of nonuser changeable batteries. Just bad luck in the past for carriers and consumers.
Oh and another thing, keep a look out for the Samsung Fantasy (M510)in April – replaces M500. ;)
i'm waiting for them to put the features of M500 in the svelte, metal casing that A900 has. they probably could fit it into the space that an M610 takes up, but I like my external MP3 controls and separate headset and data plugs.
also, my latest gripe with A900 is that just having a coin in your pocket ruins the paint. make your next black phone black all the way through, samsung.
and flipper can't be the F300, because F300 has the prefix SGH, which stands for samsung GSM handset, and sprint only uses CDMA (or more specifically, PCS).
word on the SU forums is that flipper is the M620, and the black Q, aka the franklin, will be available in january or february.
http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=120213&highlight=m510
so much for people thinking sprint's lineup is bad, it's now turning into the most exciting phone lineup in the US. thin phone people can get their blade, katana, RAZR, KRZR, M610, M500 and (soon) Q and SLVR on, PDA phone users can get the 700wx, 700p or HTC apache, and the free phone, sanyo 3100, has a camera and an external screen, and supports ready link. not to mention the M1 is the craziest music phone in america.