Sprint’s all-new Palm Pre is just about the greatest thing to come out of Palm in quite some time. The compact QWERTY slider features a 3.2-megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi, finger-friendly interface, sleek styling and responsive capacitance-based touchscreen. That all adds up to one impressive smartphone – and it’s mostly thanks to the intuitive and fun…
BlackBerry Tour Return Rates High Due to Trackball Malfunction
Ruh-roh. Sprint’s BlackBerry Tour return rates “have been climbing toward 50%” due to trackball difficulties, according to an analyst note from TownHall Investment Research. As CDMA carriers’ flagship BlackBerry device, this is bad news. Mounting anecdotal evidence supports the seriousness of the problem, although I personally didn’t have any issues during my two weeks with…
Samsung Instinct HD Going Live on Sprint September 27?
We had seen a brief (but official) glimpse of the Samsung Instinct HD for Sprint, and vague promises of it “coming soon”. Luckily,the dumbphone with a nice camera has posed for some press shots here and come with information about a September 27th. launch at price point between $99 and $149. The status of “HD”…
Sprint adds even more eco-friendly accessories
Sprint is trying really hard to win some green points in the customers’ eyes. At the end of May, we said they’ve added green accessories to their portfolio and now they’re doing it again. This time, they’ve announced: All-In-One Vehicle and Wall Charger, which allows users to drop other chargers and use this one exclusively.…
Sprint Launches Samsung M330
Sprint has announced a simple little slider from Samsung, the M330, which is available for free on contract after rebates. It’s not much to look at, but it does include an app called PictBridge which lets you send photos right to the printer via Bluetooth. It also has language support for Spanish, and the usual…
Sprint Launches Camera-Less BlackBerry Tour
For awhile after the 8800, it was starting to look like every BlackBerry was going to have a camera included, but the Bold, 8350i Curve and now the Tour have shown that there’s still a market for high-security corporate customers who would rather not worry about sneaky pictures of sensitive information being taken. This always…
Deutsche Telekom looking to buy Sprint Nextel; if true, they’ll become the 2nd largest USA operator
Deutsche Telekom, otherwise known as T-Mobile, is looking at buying Sprint Nextel according to sources that spoke to the Telegraph. A bid could come within the next few weeks. As of Q2 2009, Verizon had 87.7 million customers, AT&T 79.6 million, Sprint Nextel 48.8 million and T-Mobile 33.5 million customers. If T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel…
Sprint announces plans to support Qualcomm’s Brew platform
Sprint announced that it will support Brew by launching devices running Qualcomm’s mobile platform. We’re not sure which handsets Sprint plans to add in the coming weeks and months, but we do know they’ll leave space for Brew apps on the Sprint Application Developer Program website. Commenting on the announcement, Sprint’s director of device development,…
Sprint Quietly Outs Samsung Instinct HD, “Coming Soon”
Sprint has shown the first public acknowledgment of carrying the Instinct HD, tucked away in their Premier Connection newsletter recently. Between the Best Buy pricing leaks and the hands-on pictures, we could see Samsung’s Instinct HD coming to Sprint a mile away, but you’d think they’d make a slightly bigger deal about the phone when…
Sprint Goes Live with ‘Any Mobile, Anytime’ Plan
This is a biggie… Sprint is really opening up their guns on this one. They’ve unveiled the new ‘Any Mobile, Anytime‘ plan. This new plan will let you use your Sprint phone to call any mobile on any carrier at ANY time… for as long as you like. Translation? unlimited calling to all cellular phones.…