Sprint Wins at 2 Year Cost, No Contest

Wired has a handy guide [via bbg] up detailing all the spec differences between the top 4 smartphones catching most people's attention these days (I would have included the Touch Pro 2, but that's me).  The Pre is definitely competitive (but that 30 app number really stings).

The Pre is the lightest, sure, but it's the comparison above that caught our eye.  CrackBerry Kevin was more than right in our last Smartphone Experts Roundtable Podcast - when it comes to cost, forget about the what you have to lay down for the phone with contract.  Just ignore any price differences under, say, 300 bucks.  Your real cost is the 2 year plan cost and Sprint is $500 cheaper then the next closest competitor and $1400 bucks cheaper than the iPhone 3GS (and comes with Navigator, which costs and extra $10 a month on the iPhone).

This is more of a win for Sprint than it is for the Pre. Yet it's almost bittersweet because, well, we're fairly positive that many of you, like us, are agitating to pay those higher costs on other networks with a Pre.