Archive for the ‘Sprint’ Category

Best Buy appears to be running a fire sale on the Palm Pre Touchstone Charges: Buy One, Get One Free!
You have to order online, from the link below, and use in-store pickup (they are backordered for online sales).
We cannot confirm if this is a price mistake or not. As such, you may want to head [...]

Sprint has officially announced via Twitter that it will launch the BlackBerry Tour on the same day as Verizon.

As can be seen in the screenshot, the $199.99 pricepoint also applies to those customers that are upgrade eligible.
Encyclopedia: BlackBerry Tour 9630

Following up on the announcement of the latest Sprint Palm Pre update, new information has surfaced on the extent of the fixes. The main issue being fixed was an exploit that was being used to install homebrew applications with unsigned code on non-root enabled phones by sending an email with the installer link.
The problem [...]

Sprint has officially announced the forthcoming release of the Motorola Clutch i465 for its Nextel network.
The Clutch is identical to the model sold on subsidiary Boost Mobile and features a portait display, QWERTY keyboard, speakerphone, VGA camera, MMS support, email client, Bluetooth, and threaded SMS support along with the distinction of M810 Mil-Spec certification for [...]

Palm has released webOS 1.0.4 as a firmware update for the Palm Pre. Palm has released few details surrounding the update, only that it fixes several security issues with webOS. Palm has not disclosed what those issues were, but encourages all users to update.
Pre owners can update to webOS 1.0.4 by using the Updates application [...]

A couple of release dates have now been confirmed regarding one of the most anticipated BlackBerry releases of the summer in the Tour 9630.
First, Verizon will be launching its version of the Tour on July 12th for $199.99 after new 2 year agreement and rebates according to information found on the internal testman server, [...]

Sources speaking to PhoneNews.com have confirmed that Sprint is internally testing the HTC Hero currently slated for release at the end of the year.
The biggest news however, has to do with Samsung and its device currently in testing which is a CDMA/WiMax device running Android according to preliminary details.
Sprint has previously confirmed plans to release [...]

Sprint has launched three new handsets in the Samsung Exclaim dual-slider, LG LX370 slider and HTC Snap smart device.

The Samsung Exclaim features a QWERTY keyboard, QVGA resolution display, Sprint One Click user interface, Social Zone social networiking app, Sprint Mobile Email Work and Mobile Email Work Calendar support, 2.0 megapixel camera with video recorder, Bluetooth [...]

Following webOS update 1.0.2 after the launch of the Pre, Palm has once again updated the device to version 1.0.3.
1.0.3 features changes to Calendar Events sync when created in Google Calendar with an accented character, whereby the event will now sync, general changes made will now sync in minutes, and the sync interval has been [...]

Over the past couple of days, users have noticed that the Palm Pre has begun a systematic process of updating all Pre devices to webOS 1.0.2. Palm claims that this is necessary, due to the tight integration between webOS and Palm’s cloud computing servers. However, such moves may put Palm into legal trouble… or worse.
Palm’s [...]