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Sprint announced a new member of its eco-friendly family of devices – LG Optimus Elite, which supersedes pretty popular Optimus S model. This low-to-mid end smartphone is ULE Platinum Certified for sustainability, sporting an outer shell that is made of 50% recycled plastics. Moreover, it’s also an RoHS compliant device, meaning it is free of…
Today Sprint finally made the Samsung Galaxy Nexus official on its premature 4G LTE network beginning this Sunday, April 22. If you’re the impatient type, then you can get your hands on this phone earlier by way of pre-order starting now, those who choose to get handset now will receive it by Friday. The Galaxy…
Sprint’s going to launch a 4G LTE network this summer that’ll initially cover five to six cities. By the end of the year, Sprint expects to cover over 123 million Americans, and by the end of next year they expect that figure to climb to 250 million Americans. To put that number into some perspective,…
Ah, LightSquared. What once was part of Sprint’s grand scheme to bring an LTE network to the masses is now in desperate need of saving. LightSquared has invested billions of dollars into plans for a nationwide 4G LTE network, only to find the chosen spectrum has a good chance of interfering with critical GPS devices…
Sprint is moving closer toward releasing one of its first LTE handsets, the LG Viper 4G. We knew the LG Viper was hitting store shelves soon, once a document leaked last week. The company is slowly rolling out its LTE network, with the first test in Kankakee, Ill, so Sprint will begin to offer LTE…
Samsung’s Galaxy Note may be headed to our favorite underdog carrier Sprint. This juicy tidbit comes from an advertisement spotted on Sprint’s website that appears to contain the Galaxy Note (the ad has been removed as of the writing of this post). Neither Samsung nor Sprint have announced that the device will launch with the…
The nation’s four largest wireless carriers are working with the US Government to build and support a database of lost and stolen phones. The carriers have agreed to deny both voice and data service for phones added to the database will be denied . Carriers will setup their own databases and eventually roll them into a centralized…
Sprint has announced the first test market for its upcoming 4G LTE network, and the selected market is leaving many scratching their heads. Citizens of Kankakee, Illinois, a small town of about 27,500 people 60 miles south of Chicago, now find themselves in the center of Sprint’s LTE rollout. We have to wonder how many…
Sprint released a small security update for the Samsung Conquer 4G. As far as I’ve understood, when Sprint says “security update” it means CarrierIQ integration is removed from the device. However, there are apparently also some other changes included, with several live wallpapers (Magic, Smoke, Many, Maps, Nexus, Spectrum, Water and Waveform) don’t appearing after…
Safely Phone Controls, available in Google Play as Sprint Mobile Controls, is a new Android app that helps partners control their kids’ Android smartphones. Now we do realize kids have the right for privacy just like adults, however they are not necessarily that savvy and perhaps not as disciplined. According to Safely user data, 63%…