Archive for December, 2004

The Associated Press is reporting Time Warner is finalizing a deal to become yet another Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) with Sprint. Initially, the offering would be tested in Kansas City for the first quarter of 2005.

Sprint to TeleSales: Do not allow customers to bill sales to an account (unless the customer starts asking too many questions).
Sprint to Stores: Do not refund phone sales from TeleSales to anything but a customer’s account (unless the customer starts asking too many questions).
The moral of this story is, Sprint will be glad to accept [...]

Of course, today is a slow news day, but a new tutorial on how to support the site (including without having to give money… for those of you that just spent it all…).
Merry Christmas, stay tuned…

We are receiving reports that Chicago received internal official launch status for EV-DO.

Yet Another BitPim Update. Version 0.7.23 adds official support for the Sanyo MM-7400.

Cingular has launched CingularMe.com, a new web site that gives customers greater access to some account-level controls for messaging. Independent from the customer account access page on Cingular’s main site, CingularMe.com allows account holders to grant individual access for each user on a shared line plan.
CingularMe.com allows for several new SMS and MMS functions, [...]

Sprint has released the Samsung PM-A740 online. Retail price is $229.99 before rebates.
Samsung PM-A740 Product Page

Update 5: Very popular and thus, yet again, out of stock.
Update 4: Back in-stock…
Update 3: Out of stock… again…
Update 2: Back in stock, same price, same deal.
Update: Amazon has run out of stock, we’ll keep you posted as to when it comes back in-stock.
We normally don’t cover other carriers (on their respective sites), and there [...]

PalmOne, in an effort to reduce the amount of angry customer that have found out that the Treo 650 actually has less storage memory than the Treo 600 (when taking into account its new allocation tables), has launched a web site where you can order a free 128 MB SD card.
128 MB Wow-We-Really-Screwed-Up Offer

Despite GPSOne’s limitations, Sprint appears to be ready to offer the ability to tap these services, as well as potential direct phonebook access…
From Sprint’s developer web site:
“Sprint has restricted access to certain functionality provided to most MIDP 2.0 devices. This functionality consists of:
* LBS: Location Based Services
* JSR-135 Mobile Media 1.1 API
* JSR-120 Wireless [...]