Archive for December, 2005

Sprint has issued firmware YL10 for the Samsung MM-A900. This is a high-priority update which fixes Picture Mail as well as “other housekeeping issues”. In the update notes, Sprint did state that another update, following YL10, will be made available soon.

To update the MM-A900, go to Menu > Settings > Others > Update Phone. If [...]

Findum has just released their LBS services which tap both Sprint and Nextel’s networks. Findum works by authorizing phones which will then appear on the Findum web site (after logging in). A user can then track all the phones that they are authorized to, whenever they are on.
The service costs $12.99/month and does not use [...]

Samsung SCH-A670 - YF24
Please keep sending in any unlisted firmware versions, or versions that are out-of-date.

The FCC is revealing another potential Sprint phone. This one a Nokia. The FCC’s information shows a flip phone with a megapixel camera, 262K color main display, 16MB of internal memory, Bluetooth, and Infrared support.

The PM-6165 will build on Nokia’s past PM-class offerings, returning Nokia to Sprint’s lineup after the discontinued 6016i.
FCC Information Page

The FCC has revealed the first pictures of the Motorola C290, a new generation of Motorola’s budget-friendly C-series headed to Sprint. We will be the first to confirm Sprint has given preliminary hardware approval to the C290, finally creating the first 3G Sprint phone by Motorola. The basic Vision phone features an ARM7 processor, basic [...]

Sprint has issued PRL 20217 for EV-DO devices, and is now available for over-the-air updating. Call data support in order to be flagged for the update. It is not known what has been changed at this time.

Sprint Nextel has agreed to purchase Nextel Partners for $6.5 billion in cash. The stock buyout will give Sprint full ownership of Nextel Partners, and will end the long-held standoff between Sprint and the iDEN affiliate. Upon regulatory approval, Nextel Partners customers will be able to switch to Sprint CDMA without paying an early termination [...]

At Atlanta’s Philips Arena, a select group of season ticket holders will soon be able to waive their cell phones in front of their team’s poster and instantly download game notes, team logos or video games.
About 250 Hawks basketball and Thrashers hockey season ticket holders will recieve cellphones from Cingular to participate in the trial. [...]

Starr Wireless has had a very checkered past. From starting as being the only carrier with an online customer service page that contained the actual social security numbers of their customers (back when they were a Sprint MVNO) to their latest reincarnation of ROCKITtalk.
ROCKITtalk was initially a TDMA/GSM MVNO using AT&T/Cingular wireless and Starr’s “portable [...]

Sprint Nextel today announced an agreement with affiliate “Enterprise Communications” to purchase the small affiliate in a deal valued at about $100 million. The deal continues the recent spate of acquisitions by Sprint Nextel Corporation as the merged company continues to deal with the various agreements it had established with affiliates throughout the country.
Enterprise Communications [...]