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Sprint just launched Sprint ID at their CTIA SF 2010 press conference as a new way to help you customize your Android homescreen to fit your current activity or lifestyle. The idea behind Sprint ID is essentially to allow you to change your homescreen wallpaper, widgets, apps, and shortcuts at the touch of a button.…
Sprint has been the second carrier to pick up the Android-powered Sanyo Zio and it will be one of the first devices to launch with Sprint ID. The device is definitely a mid-range device with a 3.5-inch WVGA screen, 600 MHz processor, 3.2-megapixel camera but we’re glad to see that it will launch with Android…
Today at CTIA, Sprint introduced Sprint ID, an add-on feature for its hot new Android handsets, the Sanyo Zio, Samsung Transform, and the LG Optimus S. Sprint ID provides a custom suite of applications, widgets, wallpapers, and ringtones tailor-made for specific groups of Android users. Now available on these latest Android handsets, it is a…
Verizon’s not the only one talking up LTE today. Rogers has announced that they have been doing 4G LTE trials with Ericsson here in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and will be moving to a technical trial “on both low and high band frequencies”. Speeds will go up to 150 Mbps, but of course that’s only the…
Remember that little Samsung Android slider we saw in a manual yesterday? It went official in an announcement today from Sprint, complete with Android 2.1 (not 2.2 as speculated), 3 megapixel camera, 3G over EV-DO, Wi-Fi b/g, GPS, a forward-facing video calling camera, 800 MHz processor with 256 MB of RAM, 1500 mAh battery, and…
Someone doesn’t like cell phones. A Russian prosecutor has just been jailed for demolishing 50,000 seized Motorola phones. The value of the phones are estimated to be around $1.5 million at the time they were seized. Apparently, the phones were taken in after a claim that they exceeded acceptable radiation emission levels. Now the prosecutor…
AT&T and RIM have just released an update for the BlackBerry Torch 9800. OS 6.0.0.246 leaked a few weeks ago, but now it’s all officially official, available at blackberry.com/updates, in your Desktop Software after plugging in via USB, or on-device notification for OTA download over the next couple of weeks. What makes this update especially…
It is lawsuit week in the tech world. Earlier this week, Microsoft filed a patent dispute against Motorola. Today, Motorola tossed its own patent-filled grenade at Apple. In a public press release, Motorola confirmed that its Mobility subsidiary is filing a patent lawsuit against Apple over the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and select Mac computers.…
We’re here at CTIA SF 2010 and waiting for Sprint to kick off their press conference to announce some new hardware – we’re hoping to see some new Android hardware from Kyocera’s Zio line and an LG Optimus handset for Sprint. There’s also a chance that Sprint will announce pricing and availability information for the…
For those of you in need of another T-Mobile Android device in your life, you may want to direct your attention to LG, as they have just announced a new handset in their Optimus line, the Optimus T. The Optimus T will not be a powerhouse of a smartphone, but will be better suited for…