Smartphone Availability in the United States by Wireless Carrier

One thing that's really annoying about buying a cell phone these days is figuring out whether it's compatible with your wireless provider. For example, Apple has fired up the masses with new iPhone, but it's only going to be available on Cingular/AT&T.

Consumers will have to decide whether the phone drives their contract, or whether their contract (together with service and coverage) drives which phones they'll consider purchasing.

In an attempt to reduce the complexity of the decision (for now), here is a matrix of which smartphones are available on each major US wireless provider. I've limited the list to smartphones because, frankly, that's all that interests me. The phones are not ranked in any particular order other than some loose grouping by manufacturer.

	AT&T/Cingular	Verizon	Sprint	T-Mobile
Apple iPhone	X
Palm Treo 750	X
Palm Treo 700wx			X
Palm Treo 700w		X
Palm Treo 700p		X	X
Palm Treo 680	X
Palm Treo 650	X	X	X
Samsung Blackjack	X
BlackBerry 7130e		X	X
BlackBerry Pearl	X			X
BlackBerry 8703e		X	X
BlackBerry 7250		X
BlackBerry 7290	X			X
BlackBerry 8700c	X
BlackBerry 7105t				X
BlackBerry 8700g				X
Motorola Q		X	X
PPC-6700		X	X
Samsung SCH-i730		X
Nokia E62	X
T-Mobile SDA				X
T-Mobile Sidekick 3				X
T-Mobile Dash				X
T-Mobile MDA				X
Cingular 8525	X
Cingular 3125	X
Cingular 8125 Pocket PC	X

Has a cool phone ever motivated you to switch carriers? Let's hear about it.

Kenneth, did you look at the Grid in Internet Explorer 6 or in Firefox....the Grid looks alittle better in Firefox.....thx....Ro

Comments

1. Posted by: Kenneth on January 25, 2007 9:00 AM:

What an ugly grid!
This table could have used the phone carrier's icons and a bit of color. It would be fair use and make this long set easier to follow at the bottom. By the time you get to the Nokia E62, you can't read the carrier column headings. I get kind of lost.
Set a basic css style for your tables to make them consistently pretty.

I applaud your current table for being so low bandwidth.

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