Overland Park ? Channel surfing just moved from the couch to your cell phone.

Sprint Corp. on Tuesday will release its new PCS Vision Multimedia phone, which allows subscribers to select channels of streaming video and audio clips for news, sports and entertainment.

With picture quality of 15 frames per second, the phone represents a big leap forward from Sprint’s MobiTV services, released last November.

The MM-A700 multimedia phone, produced by Samsung, will retail for $249.99 after a rebate.

The service costs $9.99 per month for a “basic cable” option that includes content from NBC News, Fox Sports, The Weather Channel, a special Olympics news site and a comedy network.

The service uses video clips that approach regular television quality of 20 frames per second. MobiTV, which provides streaming network programming, operates at 1 or 2 frames per second.