As a longtime (former) SERO customer I’m going to absorb a rare position criticising Sprint’s gift to customers and play Luxury’s Advocate here.

Every single smartphone available to SERO (and Verizon) customers is a high-end shortcoming that isn’t worth consumers’ time of day in 2008. By hooking up with SERO you’re getting a magnificent deal on your plan, you’re getting access to the best 3G data network in the United States, you’re guaranteed to be getting a bunch of non-tech-savvy friends asking you how to get the same deal… and you’re getting to choose from an embarassing selection of smartphones, the most “current” of which have been obsolete and irrelevant for over a year now. I’m going to run down the five smartphones that can be used with Sprint’s $30/month SERO plan as of this writing (Treo 700wx excluded, as it’s irrelevant even for Sprint customers), and I’m going to tell you why you don’t want any of them.