Yesterday rang in the announcement of the new Sprint Intercept from Samsung, to further perpetuate the Android catalog Sprint is building as well as help Samsung too further cement its foot prints in the smart phone arena.

The Samsung Intercept was announced yesterday via a Sprint press release and is sure to bring some new customers their way. The Sprint Intercept will be officially made available on July 11^th and will run you about 99 bucks before taxes and after a mail in rebate (oh how sprint loves those rebates). So out of pocket on the 11^th you would be looking at paying around 200 bucks for this little guy. But is it worth it? Sure it is, the new Sprint Intercept features a 3.2-inch touch screen, a 3.2 megapixel camera and a full QWERTY key pad via its slider design.  Looking at the design and price you probably would not expect much is going on, on the inside of this Intercept however, those looks can indeed be deceiving. It’s not the most powerful phone on the market obviously, but smart shoppers will be happy to know that the Intercept runs 800MHz processor.  The new Sprint Intercept is running the Android operating system version 2.1 and could very well see a Froyo update when available. The Intercept has stereo Bluetooth capabilities and can accept up to 32GB of external storage.

The Sprint Intercept via Samsung is indeed a powerful new little toy, the device will be made available in gray and pink come the 11^th. Shipping stock with features from Sprint that are at this point expected, Sprint TV, Visual Voicemail and other non Sprint social networking apps come preinstalled, Facebook, Twitter and even Flickr.

So how is that old slider holding up? Will this be the new phone out of Sprint that makes you upgrade?

If you are new customer or even looking to upgrade it seems that this new Intercept can be a good fit for anyone.