Samsung Exclaim gets official -- the Best Buy way

This is starting to become a trend that we can't imagine carriers and manufacturers are too pleased with, but for whatever reason, Sprint's Samsung Exclaim is just the latest victim in a string of Best Buy outings. The previously-rumored dual slider looks to be hitting in your choice of blue and "berry" (are we the only ones that find that amusing?) for $399.99 off-contract with an estimated shipment in 1-2 weeks' time, aligning it nicely with talk that we'd see a launch in June. Your hard-earned cash nets you a 2 megapixel cam, microSD expansion, A2DP, and -- perhaps most importantly -- both QWERTY and numeric sliding keypads for those times when you're feeling a little indecisive. Hey, if the form factor works for Pantech, it can certainly work for Samsung, right?

[Via Phone Scoop]

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 1st 2009 9:22PM]

Classic Engadget Sprint hatin.' They can't even spell the name of the phone right on the headline. I'm sure you've never seen them misspell "Ifone."

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 1st 2009 10:08PM]

Haha, I saw this at Best Buy about a week ago.

Cool phone, looks to be the Rant's successor.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 1st 2009 10:29PM]

I saw they are also listing the HTC Snap on there also. Or aleast in the mobile buyers guide. THey had a display car dout also this past Sunday but no dummy phone to go with it. the guy said it would be out within the next couple of weeks once they get the info on the floor.


http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&id=pcat17071&type=page&st=htc+snap&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=15&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960

[Chris Posted Jun 1st 2009 11:20PM]

Dude, I literally fixed that like 30 seconds ago, settle! Yes, my bad -- and thanks for the catch.

[Chris Posted Jun 2nd 2009 12:53AM]

Also: want to take a good, hard look at our Pre coverage and reevaluate your first comment?

[sikkboy626 Posted Jun 2nd 2009 8:06AM]

Hey Chris, just go ahead and ignore any fucktarded comments bro.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 2nd 2009 1:51AM]

Carlos, really don't know where you're coming from with the "Engadget Sprint hatin." Engadget's one of the more balanced mobile blogs out there.

I've said this before, but I'm very excited that this phone and the QWERTY dumbphones like it are finally showing up on Sprint en masse. They've been getting killed in the QWERTY dumbphone space for a while now, and it's nice to see them stepping up their game in this segment.