I was officially invited to join the hordes yesterday in the Sprint Ambassador program. Sprint has taken to searching for blogs discussing mobile phones and consumer electronics and giving them a free phone and unlimited call and data plan for six months.

Doing a quick search suggests that this is more about guerrilla marketing than about market research. Going after bloggers, the assumption is that they will give us a phone and we will probably blog about them. Very smartly, they didn’t ask the participants to blog or anything, they just figure it will come naturally (a point I am proving now).

Of course I am accepting the phone and am grateful for it as a chance to try Sprint out again after 5 years on Cellular One/AT&T Wireless/Cingular Blue. I can’t imagine that there is anything that they can do though that would make me want to switch to them. The fact that they aren’t on GSM is a complete deal breaker for me.

Now if the Samsung A920 that they are sending me is one of those MMI Samsungs, I may have spoken too soon.