I think it all comes down to what you want in a phone and are willing to pay. I realy have no desire at this time to pay a premium $10 fee per month to have 4G. I want a phone that makes good calls, good texting(with external keyboard) and light internet use all done easily without much of a learning curve, the Sprint Arrive fits my needs nicely. Others may hate the phone because it does not work for what they want out of a phone and they are willing to pay more to match their needs.
My only concern is that Sprint is going out of their way to NOT promote that they have a Win7 phone. Not sure what there reason is. I even saw the Sprint Arrive phone pictured in an ad in a magazine with no mention of it being Win7, just a generic tag line to the whole Sprint line of phones N service. For some reason they are still marketing the crap out of their EVO phones that are at least a year old if not getting close to 2, but I guess if that is what they want to spend their marketing $$$'s on....
My only concern is that Sprint is going out of their way to NOT promote that they have a Win7 phone. Not sure what there reason is. I even saw the Sprint Arrive phone pictured in an ad in a magazine with no mention of it being Win7, just a generic tag line to the whole Sprint line of phones N service. For some reason they are still marketing the crap out of their EVO phones that are at least a year old if not getting close to 2, but I guess if that is what they want to spend their marketing $$$'s on....