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Today at CTIA 2011, Sprint officially announced the HTC View 4G, better known as the HTC Flyer. Not a huge surprise given recent rumours, but good news nonetheless. It goes on sale sometime this summer, but there aren’t any prices or specific dates just yet. The HTC View 4G has a 7-inch 1024 x 600…
We’re live at Sprint’s conference and this is expected to be a big show for the carrier. Or, it was before AT&T said it would be buying T-Mobile a day before the activities kicked off. Now, this should still be a good announcement but it won’t be the story of the show at all. We’re…
Hopefully, you were following along with our CTIA 2011 liveblog and watched the CEOs of AT&T, Sprint and Verizon discuss the industry and you would have seen Sprint CEO Dan Hesse sticking it to the competition. Not only did he crack wise about AT&T’s “4G” network, he flat-out said that the AT&T, T-Mobile deal would…
We’re live at CTIA 2011 in Orlando for the Day 1 keynote address, which is expected to include a roundtable face-off between the CEOs from the Top Four carriers in the US – AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile. Of course, this takes on much more meaning now that AT&T plans to buy T-Mobile and the…
AT&T kicked off Monday morning with a webcast that outlined the details of the T-Mobile acquisition. While these two wireless carriers were riding a wave of positive news, Sprint was experiencing a slight downturn. Of the major wireless carriers in the U.S., the nation’s third largest wireless carrier stands to lose the most from a…
Sprint and Kyocera announced the dual-screen Android Echo smartphone last month, and now the manufacturer is launching a developer program to help and entice developers to build apps for the new form factor. Sprint touted the Kyocera Echo as an industry first, and indeed it is the first and only Android device so far to…
We’re expecting the Wi-Fi-only BlackBerry PlayBook to launch any day now, but a 4G version isn’t far behind. A few months ago Sprint had promised a WiMAX PlayBook, and now we’ve got a summer timeframe for a launch. Around the same time, I’m expecting we’ll see a software update to the Wi-Fi version which will…
Well, we thought this could be a somewhat boring CTIA last week but with the news that AT&T will be buying T-Mobile, this is going to be one of the most exciting show in a long, long time. That deal could have a major impact on the mobile game in the United States for years…
The Samsung Epic 4G and the Galaxy Tab Android tablet are getting an update soon, and it’s a big one for Epic owners as they’ll be getting Android 2.2 Froyo. For both Epic 4G owners and Galaxy Tab users, Sprint ID will be included in the update, too – for better or worse. Some users…
Along with being launched on the Samsung Nexus S 4G, Sprint has announced that Google Voice will be coming to all of their handsets from here on in. With a few quick steps, Sprint customers can turn their existing phone number into their Google Voice number, through which inbound and oubound calls from up to…