The third quarter of this year ended with some interesting wireless developments, but industry leaders remained entrenched in their US-rankings. With the FCC’s approval of the deal, Verizon had cleared their last regulatory hurdle in their bid to acquire wireless carrier Alltel. The merger will give Verizon Wireless the subscriber-base to leap-frog over AT&T into…
Sprint Picture Mail updated to allow instant sharing to MySpace, Photobucket and YouTube
Sprint has recently announced an enhancement to Sprint Picture Mail to allow its customers to send photos and videos straight from their phones to popular social media sites, including MySpace, Photobucket and YouTube. The Picture Mail enhancement uses the VeriSign Xoomerang platform to provide uploads from the user’s Sprint phone to a variety of social…
Sprint Sales Reps Suing Over Unpaid Commissions
C’mon Sprint, I know you guys aren’t doing that great these days, but not paying your employees? That’s just shooting yourself in the foot. With a shotgun. Loaded with kryptonite shells. Over 19,000 past and present employees of Sprint have launched a class action suit against the company for not paying between $100 – $500…
Sprint Instinct gets Opera Mini 4.2, too
If the T-Mobile G1 can have it, so can Sprint Instinct. I’m talking about Opera Mini, which is now available for the Sprint Instinct users and which is set to become one of their [Instinct users] most-used apps because of the simple fact that the pre-installed browser sucks. To be fair, the last firmware update…
Sprint’s head of CDMA operations resigns
Sprint is losing more than just customers and profits this year. The struggling US wireless carrier has just lost its CDMA network chief with the resignation of John Garcia. Sprint Nextel’s CDMA network accounts for the bulk of the company’s bottom line, and it goes without saying that the Sprint side of Sprint Nextel’s operations…
Sprint HTC Touch Pro video walk-through
The HTC Touch Pro is fast becoming one of the most prolific Windows Mobile touchscreen smartphone to hit the global smartphone market in recent memory. The 2.8-inch VGA touchscreen display, 3G (EVDO Rev. A) connection, GPS, WiFi, 3.2 megapixel camera (autofocus with flash), and, of course, the slide-out QWERTY keyboard push the HTC Touch Pro…
Bplay offering direct billing on AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile
The biggest name in BlackBerry gaming, Bplay, just struck a big deal with three major U.S. carriers (T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint… what, no Verizon?) to allow for direct billing when buying their games. That means instead of having to deal with fiddling for credit cards when all you want to do is try that cool…
CDMA Palm Treo Pro Coming to Sprint in January 2009
Treo-heads, don’t get too excited about this one as I’d prefer to file it under ‘rumor’ at this point… However that being said there’s a pretty darn good chance that it’ll happen 🙂 Rumor has it that a CDMA version of the Palm Treo Pro is on its way to big yellow, a.k.a. Sprint. The…
Sprint offering voluntary resignation compensation
When companies sail rough waters, it’s usually non-essential employees that are first to be forced to walk the plank. Sprint, still reeling from a dismal Q3 2008 that had it losing $326 million and 1.3 million subscribers, has reportedly extended its “voluntary separation package” program to most of its employee-base. Rather than simply handing pink-slips…
iDEN BlackBerry gets FCC approval
Sprint’s upcoming iDEN BlackBerry based on the Curve line has gone through the FCC hoops and come out with a user manual on the other side. Now, the OS has seen some significant changes since RIM’s last push-to-talk handset, the 7100i, so functionality has seen a significant overhaul; check out page 33 of the manual…