Chalk up another delay for Clearwire and Sprint’s national WiMAX network. In its push to bring WiMAX coverage to half of the US population by 2010, Clearwire sought investments from industry heavy-weights like Intel, Google and Time Warner. Unfortunately, the $3.2 billion already invested into the WiMAX network isn’t enough to meet Clearwire’s goals. Bloomberg…
Sprint readying Samsung Instinct Mini?
Sprint must really be busy readying new hardware, what with their continued delays in getting the Sprint Palm Treo Pro out to the waiting public. One of the new pieces of hardware rumored for Sprint’s 2009 lineup is smaller, thinner variant of Sprint’s most-popular smartphone, the Samsung Instinct. The original Sprint Samsung Instinct has the…
Sprint BlackBerry Pearl and Curve get 4.5 OS Update
The Sprint BlackBerry 8130 and 8330 make the official jump OS 4.5 today, apparently including MMS support. 4.5 was a big update, and included such goodies as: * Refreshed Look – Enjoy messages, address book entries and a calendar that make better use of colors and fonts. They’re also laid out to more closely match…
Palm Pre Slated for March 15th According to Sprint End-of-Life List
The accepted rumor had it that the Palm Pre would hit us on Sprint sometime around February 15th. With that date not very far away, I was starting to get a bit concerned that I hadn’t heard more rumblings about the launch. Sure enough, new details have come out via BGR in the form of…
Sprint rolls out Sprint Premier customer-loyalty program
Sprint’s efforts to turn its wireless business around hinges on its ability to retain as many customers as possible. Sprint recently saw 1.3 million customer defecting from its CDMA-based wireless network in the US. And, following on announcements from the company that will have thousands of Sprint employees losing their jobs over the next couple…
Motorola Launches i9 on Sprint’s iDEN Network
Motorola has launched the much-spied-upon i9 iDEN handset, officially dubbed the Stature. Of course push-to-talk over the Nextel network is a given feature, but the i9 will also be packing a 3.1 megapixel camera with flash and autofocus, GPS, expandable microSD memory, haptic feedback, and ModeShift, which will which will highlight different keys on the…
HTC Footprints app ported to HTC Touch (Vogue) – Photo geo-tagging for the rest of us
With the release of the HTC Touch Diamond and the more recent HTC Touch Cruise (Lolite), there are probably a fair number of HTC Touch owners feeling a little left behind. Worry not, early Touch-fan, the always capable folks at xda-developers are on top of it. Forum member NFSFan has posted a new Windows Mobile…
US wireless carriers dropping the ball on 3G data network performance
Add another strike to AT&T’s list of 3G-related complaints. A new study from Gartner attacks US wireless carriers for failing to make good on their promises of delivering “high-speed” wireless data through their respective 3G networks. The Big Four (AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and T-Mobile) all failed to meet their advertised mobile “broadband” speeds. The…
Sprint delaying Palm Treo Pro until end of February for voice + data functionality?
Last we heard, Sprint was gearing up to launch the Palm Treo Pro in CDMA-guise on February 15. It’s a good thing we didn’t put too much faith in either Sprint or Palm’s rumored plans to get their Sprint Treo Pro out to market within weeks. The latest rumblings to make their way down the…
Sprint to give 6,000 employees the boot within months!
Sprint Nextel has seen brighter days. The ailing US wireless carrier (still hanging on to the No. 3 spot) has announced that they’ll be cutting costs in an effort to ride out the tumultuous economic conditions rocking the US. When it comes to cutting costs, the payroll is usually the first place to look. Sprint…