Archive for April, 2006

Images have leaked onto the web this weekend that show the first looks at Motorola’s dual-network phones for Sprint Nextel. The phones shown carry a ruggedized design with a monochrome external caller ID display. Both camera and non-camera variants have been shown.

Sprint Nextel dual-network phones will be both iDEN and CDMA with [...]

We’ve been really busy. Really, really busy. We’ve added pages of information to our Nextel Phones Section, and after detailing every Nextel phone, are moving on to every modern phone in the nation.
Our goal is simple; have a user-contributed database of every GSM, UMTS, and CDMA2000 phone ever sold in the United States. [...]

PCS Intel can confirm that the final version of the LG 550 for Sprint will not feature the standard LG user interface. Instead, it will feature Sprint’s MI-UI. MI-UI is Sprint’s branding for their deployment of uiOne onto phones, and is currently deployed in the Sanyo MM-7500.
The new version of MI-UI will ship [...]

PCS Intel has been hard at work over the weekend getting the full picture on the just-revealed Samsung A990. The A990 is the CDMA counterpart to the high-end ZX10 for GSM/UMTS. It combines the thin design of the Samsung A900 with the swivel display, memory card, and battery life of previous Samsung models.

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Sprint today fully launched their Family Locator service. The service, as we previously reported, is $9.99/month to track up to four “child” phones from a “parent” handset, or online. For more details, visit Sprint’s Family Locator web site.
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We’re expanding our Knowledge Base with a new Nextel Phones Section. The Nextel Phones Section will eventually be expanded, thanks to user contributions, to detail all Nextel devices. We ask that you form your submissions to the page around the existing format of the Sprint Phones Section to ease the develoment of the [...]

More details about Sprint’s Family Locator Service have been revealed. Family Locator will be integrated into Sprint’s online account management tools, such as MyPCS, to allow customers to manage who is authorized to track a phone. The Family Locator tools will allow users to also sign up for emails to be notified when [...]

Following on yesterday’s release of PRL 20220, readers are reporting Sprint has issued PRL 10032 for devices without EV-DO. As with all PRL updates, call data support to be flagged for update. Like PRL 20220, it is not known what has been changed at this time.
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Sprint has issued PRL 20220 for EV-DO devices. It is not known what has been changed at this time. Call data support to be flagged for update.
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As a means of promoting our powerful Knowledge Base, the largest Cell Phone Wiki in the industry, we’re launching a new contest. Up for grabs is a LG 225 for STI Mobile. To win it, all you have to do is add the most amount of content to the Knowledge Base within the [...]