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To: Cooters who wrote (785)	12/23/2002 2:37:38 AM
From: cfoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1691

Some anecdotal news on PCS. Went to my local Sprint Express store today to buy new phones for myself, my wife and stepdaughter. Wound up buying two vision phones for me and stepdaughter - the LG 5350 for the latter and Sanyo 4900 for myself. Wife decided to stay with her current phone and just get a new battery. The two new phones cost me less than $200 total after instant rebates. Signed on for the $85, 2000 minutes plan and added my wife on as a third phone for another $20 (cheaper than putting her on her own $30 a month plan). Great service from store manager; he was very knowledgeable and helpful. (As I mentioned before, this is a training store, so all employees, including the manager are trainees). Of course I asked how business was going and he and his salesperson both said great! They said that their Stevens Creek (San Jose area) store had 51 new activations alone on Saturday. The way they said it, with amazement, led me to believe this was a very large number. Tends to fit into news that Saturday was a big shopping day and that cell phones (along with PDAs and digital cameras) were the hottest items. Also, while manager was activating our phones, the salesperson was working with girl (maybe 15 years old) was looking at the Sanyo phone with the built in camera. The girl knew everything about the phone and was selling her mother on it - $300+ price and all. I said to the manager that it looked like kids were crazy over the camera phones and he said they were. It looks like these are going to be big, big items.