Update: Samsung has gotten smarter and intentionally blocked out most of the pages of their manual from the FCC submission, so we can’t confirm the current state of the phone’s more advanced features.
Developing… The FCC has approved a Sprint-branded Samsung SPH-A700 video conferencing-enabled handset. Details are still sketchy, but it appears that our doubts about Sprint’s immediate and mysterious cancellation notice for a phone that this site was the only source to have info on were correct. It now seems more likely that the A700 cancellation notice was part of a disinformation campaign to discredit this site, and attempt to put the top back on the bottle of Sprint’s video phone agenda. We will have pictures and specs shortly.
As you may recall, SPI broke the specifications of the A700, Sprint’s first planned 1xRTT phone that supports live video conferencing. Then, within days (and posted shortly later) an internal supply memo specifically referenced the A700 as being cancelled. This was extremely odd, as Sprint never even posted internally to most departments that the A700 even existed.
