Archive for the ‘Sprint’ Category

This morning, Sprint has announced the launch of WiMax services under the Sprint 4G brand in Austin and San Antonio TX, following the Dallas launch earlier this month. Sprint is also confirming service launches for Salem, Oregon and Seattle Washington at the end of the year along with previously confirmed launches in Honolulu and Maui [...]

Following up, Sprint has confirmed that it is working on a firmware update for the Hero designed to address issues with daylight savings time correction and SMS issues present at the launch of the device.
The update does not constitute an upgrade from the current Android 1.5-based build and there are still more fixes to be [...]

Best Buy and its Mobile subsidiary have begun discounting the Sprint HTC Hero down to $99.99 after new 2 year agreement without additional rebates necessary, matching Verizon’s current pricing on the HTC Droid Eris.
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As expected, Sprint has launched the long awaited Palm Pixi webOS device, the second webOS-based device from Palm and the second such device available from Sprint after the Pre.
The featureset consists of 8GB onboard storage, 2.0 megapixel camera with flash and video recorder, a full QWERTY keyboard, a 2.63-inch 320 x 400 resolution capacitive touch [...]

We strongly advise you to wait until tomorrow, to order a Palm Pixi. Considering we were behind making the Palm Pre free, we can speak on authority on this one.
Wait until tomorrow.

Palm has pushed out webOS version 1.3.1 for the Pre ahead of tommorow’s launch of the Pixi, which will launch with the updated version as its default. It should also be noted that the update does not re-enable iTunes sync.
The following features are now supported:

Yahoo! is now available as a Calendar/Contacts/instant messaging synchronization account.

Forwarding [...]

LetsTalk is offering the forthcoming Palm Pixi from Sprint for $29.99 after $170 instant rebate without worrying about additional mail-in rebates, with units shipping on the 25th.
With Cashback, the total after the instant rebate will be $15 total, making this a better deal.
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Sprint and several partners in the new Clearwire will be investing a further $1.5 billion in capital in order to assist the WiMax service provider in completing the first stage of the nationwide rollout of its WiMax network, which Clearwire has struggled with since the beginning of its current venture in April 2008. The [...]

Today Sprint announced that they will be adding the BlackBerry Curve 8530 to their smartphone lineup.
The Curve 8530 features BlackBerry OS 5.0, a landscape HVGA resolution display, dedicated media player keys, 3.5mm headphone jack, optical directional pad, Bluetooth with stereo audio support, redesigned QWERTY keyboard and Wi-Fi radio. It also includes preloaded applications including BlackBerry Media [...]

Sprint has launched the Sanyo 3810 and the long-awaited Samsung Moment.
The Sanyo 3810 features an external display with a mirror finish when not in use, internal 2.4 inch QVGA display, large keypad, menu size control larger for easy navigation through menus and sub-menus, 1.3 megapixel camera with digital zoom and Bluetooth.
The Moment features Google Search, [...]