Sprint’s upcoming Palm Treo 800w is something of a big deal for Palm. The Palm Treo 800w represents Palm’s latest effort to retake a portion of its once-huge smartphone market share, and a true test of Palm’s ability to follow-up on the success of the Palm Centro. And, helping to spread the word about their…
FCC shows HTC NEON 400 – CDMA HTC Touch Dual on the way
The CDMA market isn’t exactly HTC’s bread-and-butter market, what with GSM handsets being the way to go for most of the developed world, but that doesn’t mean the Taiwanese smartphone maker isn’t going to give the US some touchscreen Windows Mobile love. Spotted hanging out with the FCC’s laboratory engineers, the HTC NEON400 hints at…
Motorola Vegas VE20 for Sprint spotted on FCC
If Sprint has nothing to say about their upcoming phones, FCC has. The CDMA carrier will apparently launch the Motorola Vegas VE20 at some point in the future. We don’t have the exact date, but considering it’s on the FCC’s website, we wouldn’t be surprised to see the Moto clamshell hitting Sprint’s portfolio during the…
BlackBerry Curve 8350 in works for Nextel?
RIM is reportedly preparing another BlackBerry for Nextel’s iDEN network. And while you may wonder why would they invest their resources in iDEN, the fact stays that for people looking for push-to-talk service – Nextel rules. In addition, Nextel’s service is still being used extensively by some industries, which RIM may want to target as…
Palm Treo 700wx does Windows Mobile 6
Sprint, Verizon, and Alltel subscribers with Palm Treo 700wx smartphones in hand, take heed. Following on Sprint’s “minor update” released earlier this year, ROM cooks (“chefs,” as we like to call them) have managed to get a fully-working Windows Mobile 6.0 installation running on a Palm Treo 700wx. The Windows Mobile 6.0 AKU 4.2 ROM…
Sprint pays YOU to advertise their Samsung Instinct on YouTube!
Sprint sure is pulling out all the stops with their spectacularly successful Samsung Instinct. As the first seriously hot smartphone to ship through Sprint’s doors, the struggling national wireless carrier is pushing the Instinct so hard it almost hurts. Following on Sprint’s latest Instinct-contest offering anyone a chance to win a free Sprint Samsung Instinct…
Sprint’s HTC Touch Diamond spotted in the wild
It looks like HTC’s famed Touch successor has been spotted prowling the urban jungle. Amidst the spattering of new touchscreen-toting handsets slated to launch in the next few months, the HTC Touch Diamond has been rumored to be sporting Sprint’s coloring. And, an intrepid mobile enthusiast in the field has managed to capture the first…
Sprint Airave femto-cell on sale on July 15?
Sprint’s been fooling around with their femto-cell offering for some time now, and we’re hearing that the No. 3 US carrier will be rolling out nationwide sales of the Airave signal booster on July 15. And to boost the credibility of Airave-sales rumors, the Airave has reportedly been spotted in the wild with retail packaging.…
HTC Touch Diamond, Touch Pro coming to Sprint, Verizon?
Just when we reported that the HTC Touch Pro in CDMA flavor has been spotted at the FCC, another news item caught our eye. Apparently, Sprint and Verizon will get to carry both the Diamond and the Touch Pro. And while we’re not sure about the release date at this stage, it seems to me…
MetroPCS intros MetroFlash service to port Verizon and Sprint handsets
There’s nothing like a little friendly carrier-rivalry to give entrenched incumbents a good jolt. Competition ends up benefiting the consumer, after all. So, what better way to eat in to CDMA competitors’ giant wireless subscriber-base than to offer their customers a way to bring their CDMA Sprint or Verizon handsets to MetroPCS’s network? MetroPCS has…