I had Sprint for about 10 years before leaving for AT&T, because of the iPhone.

I’m not the only one.

1.3 million customers left Sprint this Quarter, and almost 4 million have left in the past two years.

Sprint also doesn’t have the popular Blackberry Storm, which is on Verizon.

Although Sprint is a part of the Google Handset Alliance, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said in a statement that they do not believe that the experience is currently good enough for Sprint. Ouch. And, therefore, T- Mobile will benefit from being the the first Android carrier…

How will Sprint plug its financial bleeding, and turn itself around?

1) it recognizes a future in non-phone devices like the Amazon Kindle.

2) Wi Max (hot spots the size of cities). Sprint merged this week with Clearwire, and Comcast, Google, Intel, and Time Warner are partners in the nationwide rollout.

This was one of the best demos at Health 2.0

Check out the demo simulator here.

3d browsing on the iphone is here.

A really cool feature of this week’s IFTF health conference was the ability to text comments to projected screens on both sides of the stage, so the audience can comment on what’s happening, and contribute to the conversation. (sorry for the lousy iphone picture)

Interesting idea, to have a picture connect the dots pass code instead of a standard numbers and letters password.

Video link here.

this was without question the largest crowd pleaser yesterday at TC50. The specifics of how it works are vague, but “use your imagination!”

AdMob’s interactive mobile advertising leverages the capabilities of the iPhone. Check out this video.

Also of significance in the interactive advertising world, Tivo and Amazon are teaming up to allow television viewers to purchase products shown in a television show or commercial via the DVR’s on-screen menu. TiVo is working on expanding the system to include links to product placements in live programs and alongside commercials. [NYT article here.]

Imagine taking a picture with your mobile phone of a product and then having comparison prices and other data (reviews, store locations to buy it etc.) shown on its screen.

that future is near – check out Check Out Smart Shop.

I am also loving Evernote, a digital file cabinet application. Its new iphone app is particularly good – you can take pictures (white board, signs, scans etc) and word recognition software allows the text within images to be indexed and searchable. Also, it has a voice memo function, which is something I’ve missed on the iphone prior to this point.

Evernote would be the ultimate killer app if it also integrated with Amazon’s Kindle, so my notes and highlights on the kindle are also indexed and searchable. Amazon should acquire Evernote simply for this functionality.