Over the past few weeks we have surveyed Sprint stores around the US to gauge trends in performance. We asked the following questions:

  1. What is the best selling phone model right now?

  2. What is the best device to get for email?

  3. What is the best music device?

  4. Has there been a increase in people upgrading their phones or opening new accounts in the past few months?

 54% of respondents replied the Palm Pre as the best selling phone right now. 21% of respondents replied the Blackberry as the best selling phone right now. 8% of respondents replied the SCP 2700 Sanyo as the best selling phone right now.

 42% of respondents replied the Palm Pre as the best selling phone for music. 29% of respondents replied the Blackberry as the best selling phone for music. 17% of respondents replied the Samsung as the best selling phone for music.

 17% of respondents replied the Palm Pre as the best selling phone for email. 21% of respondents replied the Blackberry as the best selling phone for email. 38% of respondents replied the Samsung as the best selling phone for email

 92% of respondents replied they have seen an increase in people upgrading there phones or opening new accounts over the past few months. 8% of respondents replied they have not seen an increase in people upgrading there phones or opening new accounts over the past few months.

Conclusion of the Channel Checkers: For Sprint, business appears to be doing well. The new hot phone for Sprint is the Palm Pre, which exclusively contracts with Sprint only. The best phone for music is also said to be the Palm Pre according to respondents. The best phone for email is a Samsung device. There has been a huge increase in upgrading phones or new plans for Sprint. With the introduction of the Palm Pre, Sprint should be able to capitalize of it.

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