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If you’re a Sprint customer then we’ve got some good news for you. Starting June 10th, which is tomorrow, your upload speed is going to get a small boost to 1.5 Mbps; currently it’s capped at 1 Mbps. It may not be much, especially compared to the 6 Mbps speeds you can get if you…
Tomorrow Motorola and Sprint should have some good announcements coming your way and we’ll likely see the Photon 4G and WiMAX-enabled Xoom unveiled. While nothing is in stone, there could be some other announcements that we know nothing about. The Photon 4G may be the real show stopper tomorrow, as it should pack quite the…
Lightyear has just announced a five-year agreement with Sprint wherein it will provide service as an MVNO, or mobile virtual network operator. The upside for Lightyear is that it will have Sprint’s reliable network backing it, and access to a lot of the handsets that Sprint has to offer. The downside is that it will…
Ever since we caught a first glimpse at the HTC EVO 3D and the EVO View at CTIA 2011, we’ve been drooling. The EVO 3D is Sprint’s first 3D smartphone and it isn’t a slouch in the hardware department. It shoots 3D photos and video and allows your to view 3D content, too. It’s running…
An inventory sheet showing some of Sprint’s upcoming handsets have included a bunch of new handsets, including the upcoming Bold, the next Torch, as well as an LG Optimus slider called the Gelato (rumoured to be heading to T-Mobile as well), and a pair of Kyocera handsets dubbed the Oblique and the Radiance. The Bold…
We announced yesterday that the HTC EVO 4G for Sprint would be getting Android 2.3, or Gingerbread, early this month – June 6 for the OTA update, and June 3 for those who want to nab it manually. Of course, not everyone who owns an EVO 4G will know to download it manually, hence the…
One of Sprint’s market directors has accidentally let slip in a personal blog that they’ll be selling the 16 GB Wi-Fi only BlackBerry PlayBook tablet starting this Sunday. That’s not a huge deal since it’s already been out for awhile, and most folks are interested in when they’ll be launching the 4G WiMAX model, but…
Another one (hurdle) bites to dust and HTC’s Evo 3D is now officially ready to be sold on the U.S. soil. The FCC tested all of the device’s radios — including CDMA, EV-DO, WiMAX, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi — and concluded it’s safe enough for the general public use. Now it’s Sprint’s turn to prepare the…
HTC EVO 4G users will finally start receiving a OTA update on June 6th to get a taste of Android Gingerbread, but if you just can’t wait until next Monday you can manually update your phone starting tomorrow. The massively popular handset has been running on Android 2.2. Froyo since last August, so it’s a…
We’ve been hearing that the HTC EVO 3D for Sprint would be landing sometime this month, but it looks like June 4th won’t be the date. Radio Shack has gone live with a pre-order of the handset and you can walk into a store on the 24th and pick one up for yourself. One of…