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Beginning today, with new lines and a two year contract, Sprint is unleashing six devices into the wild free phone game.  From psuedo-smartphone capabilities like the Centro, to slide out QWERTY keyboards like that of the LG Rumor and lots more.  The Centro has been reducing in price for sometime, perhaps this is the warning shot of a Centro 2?

Here are the phones Sprint is offering:

• Palm Centro - A pseudo-smartphone in a nice small form factor.
• LG Rumor- the hip with slide out QWERTY keyboard.
• Moto i335 with push to talk.  Someone still loves Motorola!
• Compass 597 - the US’s smallest USB modem
• M300 by Samsung
• S1 by Sanyo which was loved by our Majorie Dorfman a while back.

These deals are available online only and the company is careful to say it starts today, meaning I believe we’ll see these deals through the holidays.  Anyone find it interesting the Instinct is shown no love here?  We’ve not heard too much from the Sprint camp about the Instinct lately, so you would figure they’d drop a bit and get things flowing again…we’ll see if they surprise us.

Sprint was kind enough to offer a CEO homage to our tough economic challenges:

“During these challenging economic times, it is more important than ever for us to make online holiday shopping effortless with the best overall value and the most options in affordable wireless phones,” said Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint.

Also, points for bashing on AT&T in the press release:

Sprint has four times the coverage of AT&T’s current 3G network.

Take that, suckers.

Check out these deals: [Sprint]