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If you are one of many souls looking to purchase the Motorola Photon 4G and just so happen to also be a Sprint Premier customer (read: anyone with an Android phone for more than three months currently on Sprint), you’ll be glad to know that the Motorola Photon 4G is now being offered to you. Premier customers get first dibs on Motorola’s first superphone for Sprint. It’s set to come out on the 31st of July and there’s a good chance you might get it in your hands before that.
The Photon 4G is essentially Sprint’s DROID Bionic, with a 4.3 inch qHD display, a 1GHz NVIDIA dual-core Tegra 2 processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, a kickstand (yes!), 4G, a front-facing camera to go along with an 8 megapixel rear camera and Android 2.3. All for just $200. This link will take you straight to the Premier private store, but you may have to actually login (which means you non-premier customers may not be able to put your order in until it officially launches). [AndroidForums.com, Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]
If I was on Sprint….I think I would be pre ordering this as we speak.
Unless you’re waiting on the Samsung Galaxy S 2
Who would preorder a Motorola phone with a locked bootloader?
If moto doesn’t realize this soon, they will get passed up and eventually become irrelevant.
I would have bought one if it wasnt unlocked. Fuck em I say.
Though I agree….I’m getting this phone for my wife and she is not a techie like myself and doesn’t care about locked bootloaders. This phone is awesome in spec and that is good enough for me to get for her. Locked bootloaders for me are dealbreakers if it was my primary phone.
Seems to be a nice phone, but the Galaxy SII just seems to be the phone to buy this year. I’m going to wait for the Within to release, so I can use both and compare.
Within…come on within
Design flaw – cannot use kickstand while charging phone. Otherwise so far, so good.