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The white Samsung Galaxy S II Epic Touch is now available for $99 at Amazon Wireless, a full $100 off Sprint’s asking price. Needless to say, you’ll still have to sign-up for a new two-year contract to take advantage of this offer. If you’re, however, upgrading – prepare to cash out $50 more; or if…
Sprint is preparing to beef-up its tablet portfolio with a low-cost device from ZTE. The rumored ZTE Optik will have a $100 price tag, sporting a 7-inch screen and 1.2GHz dual-core processor. In addition, it will also come with a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, 2-megapixel front-facing one, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of built-in storage, stereo speakers,…
Sprint is rolling out updates for three of its smartphones, including the HTC EVO 4G, HTC Design 4G and Samsung Epic 4G, all of which will hopefully remove the Carrier IQ software (that’s what “Security Update” could be). Here’s what’s included with each device’s firmware update: HTC EVO 4G Security Update Updated Peep client (to…
Sprint is no longer using the Carrier IQ software and has decided to remove it from its handsets. Earlier this month, Sprint released an update that removed Carrier IQ from its EVO 3D handset and will eventually roll out a similar update to its other Android phones. According to Spokeswoman Stephanie Vinage, Sprint has “decided to remove…
Some Sprint’s customers think the carrier doesn’t have enough Windows Phone devices in its portfolio and they want to do something about it. To be fair, major handset makers don’t exactly have that many CDMA-based Windows Phones in their offering, but that could easily change with Sprint (and Verizon Wireless) turning to Microsoft and its…
Last week, Sprint rolled out an update to its HTC EVO 3D handset but what many people didn’t know was the upgrade removed the controversial software Carrier IQ. Before this upgrade, The Now Network was reported to having somewhere north of 26 million devices carrying Carrier IQ, so this maintenance update shrinks that number down…
While the Galaxy Nexus will likely steal most of the thunder when it comes to Sprint’s new LTE handsets, we definitely haven’t forgotten about LG’s offering for the network, the Viper LTE. We got a little time with the handset during a Sprint event at the Venetian, so read on to get the rundown. While the Viper…
Sprint released a small firmware update for the HTC Evo 3D. “Small” obviously doesn’t include Ice Cream Sandwich and I guess we’ll have to wait for another month or so to see Android 4.0 rolling out for the 3D smartphone. The new software version comes with some improvements under the hood that improve the battery…
Sprint is teaming-up with accessibility-focused Android app developer Apps4Android to launch 5 accessibility-themed Sprint ID packs. Available for download next week, these were developed with the support of the U.S. Department of Education’s Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) for Wireless Technologies. The packs include: 1. Accessibility ID Pack Includes applications necessary to operate a smartphone…
After hearing the rumors, and finally an official announcement, we finally got a little hands on action with Sprint’s Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The Ice Cream Sandwich “Superphone” certainly didn’t waste any time after the Verizon launch, even though the release date still hasn’t been released. Like the Verizon version, the Sprint Galaxy Nexus is a…