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Mozilla says it has the support of a number of carriers and smartphone manufacturers to start shipping phones running on Firefox’s new mobile operating system. Sprint in the United States is a backer as well as Deutsche Telekom and hardware vendors ZTE and TCL Communication Technology. Mozilla hopes to have the first Firefox-based handsets shipping by…
Stop the presses. Amazon Wireless is offering Sprint’s HTC EVO LTE 4G for just 50 bucks. That’s the price for new users as well as those adding a new line to an individual or family account, whereas folks who want to upgrade will have to pour out $100 more. As you may know, this particular…
Sprint is working double-time to finally get its LTE network rolled out to the masses. The company today announced the launch of its long awaited 4G service in the following cities: Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, and San Antonio. This is an aggressive move to speed up the process of overhauling its 3G and 4G…
Remember when Sprint issued a statement about its delayed Galaxy S III due to “overwhelming demand?” Well, it looks like The Now Network has finally gotten the situation taken care of and is now prepared to launch the device July 1st. At the moment, only the 32GB version is available for pre-order on the web,…
Amazon Wireless is offering the hot-new HTC Evo 4G LTE from Sprint for $129.99. That’s the price for new users who commit on a two-year contract with the carrier, and that’s like $70 off Sprint’s asking price! Want to upgrade? No problem, you can still get a great deal on Sprint’s version of HTC One…
By now, you’ve probably seen Windows Phone 8, Microsoft’s next-gen smartphone operating system set to debut in the fall. Windows Phone 8 has the potential to shake things up in the consumer marketplace, with a redesigned start screen that features a nearly infinite level of customization. The once-squarish live tiles can now be resized to…
According to an AllThingsD report, Sprint has said it may delay the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S III due to “overwhelming demand and limited supply.” According to the report, pre-orders for the handset, which kicked off on June 5th, will arrive a few days later than expected. Orders originally were slated to arrive on…
There’s an image floating around the internets of an as yet to be released Motorola device that’s turning quite a few heads. Here’s what we know: This mysterious smartphone packs a 5 row QWERTY keyboard, it looks like it runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, it doesn’t have any front facing buttons, and from the…
As part of the plan to kill its iDEN network and replace it with the new CDMA-based push-to-talk service, Sprint announced that Direct Connect service is now available in its 1xRTT coverage and roaming areas. Up until this point, Direct Connect customers could only use the push-to-talk services in areas with 3G EV-DO coverage. No…
Sprint, for reasons we still don’t understand, decided to launch a WiMAX network several years ago instead of waiting for the 4G LTE standard to become finalized. That decision has been incredibly painful for them. WiMAX smartphones were huge, delivered terrible battery life, and to top it all off, the WiMAX network wasn’t even that…