According to some emails sent out to some lucky Palm fans, PalmInfoCenter has found that Palm is planning to start beta testing “an innovative new product.” Beta testers are required to be heavy email and data users with access to WiFi and a current Sprint customer. The next Palm Treo slated to go to bat…
Verizon sues Sprint for $10 million in “interconnection fees”
It’s refreshing to see that huge corporations dealing with multiple millions (if not billions) of dollars in revenue can fall behind on their bills. It makes me feel better about my late cable bill. Verizon Wireless has apparently exhausted all other means of trying to get Sprint to make good on the $10 million that…
Sprint’s Palm Treo 800w delayed due to MMS addition to Windows Mobile platform
Sprint’s business as a wireless voice-service provider is in trouble. There’s no doubt that Sprint’s future position in the US wireless market depends on Sprint’s (and CEO Dan Hesse’s) ability to turn the company into a data-centric provider. Unfortunately, Sprint’s WiMAX-based XOHM service has been delayed until later this year. That’s bad news, but not…
LG Voyager headed to Sprint and AT&T?
The LG Voyager has been Verizon Wireless’s touchscreen-toting answer to the iPhone. With 1.1 million units shipped since its launch, LG has done well for itself with the lateral (side) flipping handset. The LG Voyager VX10000 launched on Verizon’s No. 2 network as an exclusive, but word has it that the Voyager could be making…
US to get emergency SMS text message alert system – FCC to announce nationwide text alerts
In a time of national emergency, it makes sense to have a system in place to alert all affected Americans. Email is too slow and unreliable, while individual phone calls to the affected population is just unreasonable. What the US needs is a nationwide SMS text messaging alert system. And, that’s exactly what the FCC…
Sprint delays WiMAX XOHM rollout
I don’t know how we let this one slip through the cracks, but here it is, if a bit late. With Sprint’s future as a significant figure in the US wireless landscape hinged on the carrier’s ability to redefine itself as a data-centric provider, Sprint would do well to get their WiMAX-based XOHM network off…
Sprint may be discontinuing the Palm Treo 755p
Sad as it may be some (not sad at all, for others), all signs point to Sprint bidding the Palm Treo 755p a final farewell. The speculation is based on the fact that Sprint is no longer offering or listing the Palm Treo 755p on its website. The phasing out of the Palm Treo 755p…
Samsung Instinct scores “Best In Show” from CTIA Las Vegas 2008
When it comes to innovation, functionality, wow factor, and technology, the Samsung Instinct takes top honors at CTIA Las Vegas 2008. Of all the handsets on display at the mobile industry tradeshow, a panel of 31 judges has proclaimed that the Sprint-bound Samsung Instinct is the most innovative and “coolest” device at the show. I’ve…
Sprint’s Samsung Instinct nips at iPhone’s heels – licenses Visual Voicemail from Klausner
Remember that little outfit that sued Apple and AT&T over use of the Visual Voicemail system on the iPhone? Right, well it looks like Sprint’s going after the very same look and feel for their newly announced iPhone-fighting Samsung Instinct – except Sprint opted to pay Klausner licensing fees. Sprint has licensed the technology from…
Hands-on with Samsung Access, Samsung Alias and Samsung Instinct from CTIA Las Vegas 2008
Samsung didn’t really have much to show at CTIA, which is pretty much in line with the lack of anything new from CTIA Las Vegas 2008, but they did have the new Samsung Access and the Samsung Alias on showcase. The Samsung Alias is an updated successor to the popular dual-hinge Samsung SCH-u740 clamshell handset…