Archive for May, 2005

Story title sound familiar? If you added a Sony on the front of it, it would be the same story we covered two-and-a-half years ago. However, today Ericsson has announced they will close their own CDMA R&D facilities in San Diego, citing the lack of interest from U.S. markets for non-Qualcomm CDMA ventures, and the [...]

We’re still tooling our new Wireless Store (which, you can access on panel above the main menu, to the left). Here’s some of what has been updated today:
Cingular
Motorola V3 RAZR: $99.99
Sony Ericsson S710a: $199.99
Sprint PCS
Samsung i500: $119.99
LG MM-535 Added: $199.99
T-Mobile
Motorola V188: -$100.01
Verizon
PalmOne Treo 600: $124.99
Samsung i600: $24.99
Samsung i700: $124.99

Cingular has begun to release the Audiovox SMT5600 to all sales channels. Cingular was forced to carry the SMT5600 after negative feedback from former AT&T Wireless customers about not being able to take their “Blue” SMT5600 to a Cingular “Orange” account, and the lack of a SMT5600 to switch to once becoming an “Orange” customer.
While [...]

Sprint has posted the product page for the Samsung MM-A800, a sign of impending release for the product.

Samsung MM-A800 Product Page

We were the first to confirm it, but now Sprint makes it official. Sprint will partner with Intel to use Intel’s 802.16e WiMax processors to begin testing and trials of WiMax broadband internet.
Sprint & Intel WiMax Press Release

A brief follow-up to the recent coverage of the PPC-6600 and its potential support for EV-DO. We have been able to determine that the main reason that our original update did not work was Sprint’s EV-DO PRL. It appears that the 20007 PRL is very targeted for data card devices. Modified versions of the 20007 [...]

Verizon has issued internal launch dates for the PalmOne Treo 650. While subject to change, Verizon expects to begin selling the device to business customers on the 11th, and to consumers on the 23rd.
This move would leave T-Mobile as the only national carrier to have not upgraded from the Treo 600 to the Treo 650.

If you were thinking that the launched MVNO between AT&T and Sprint was dead in the water because of SBC’s buyout of AT&T Corp, think again. Sprint and AT&T Corp appear to be moving forward towards launching their service. Some web sites shortly showed AT&T Mobile offering the RIM BlackBerry 7250 (Sprint offers the 7750), [...]

Sprint has issued PRL 10027 for over-the-air updating. Call *2 and ask to be flagged for the update.
This is not to be confused with the 20007 PRL for EV-DO data devices. Sprint initially (and incorrectly) referred to the 20007 PRL as version 10027. PRL 10027 is for non-EV devices (in other words, all devices other [...]

Verizon has just issued a new firmware for their LG VX8000 EV-DO Handset. Version T80VZV05 disables support for the device to be used as a modem, as well as delivers several major software fixes. In some of the technician notes on the update, it is mentioned that DUN (Dial-Up Networking) support can be re-enabled, but [...]