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We mentioned Best Buy Mobile’s Free Phone Friday selection and promotion just before the month kicked off, and the mega retailer is naturally still at it. In case you totally missed the memo and you’re wondering what this deal is, Best Buy breaks it down on its Facebook page. This Friday, October 22nd, visit Best…
On the heels of launching the Sprint ID service, the CDMA/WiMAX carrier is gearing toward introducing its mobile wallet solution. In an interview to FierceMobileContent, the company’s director of open enablement Kevin McGinnis said: “It’s not a financial instrument – it’s basically a container that allows you to very easily put your own financial instruments…
Good ol’ Amazon never ceases to impress. Their latest mobile offering involves two of the hottest smartphones from Sprint’s portfolio, HTC Evo 4G and Samsung Epic 4G, both of which are available for $99. As you can imagine, this is the price with an appropriate two-year contract, but that’s still $100 less from what Sprint…
RIM and Sprint have just made an official announcement for the BlackBerry Style 9670 clamshell, and those rumours we had heard about an October 31 launch date and $99.99 price point on a two-year contract were dead on. We’ve been hearing about this phone for the last six months, so there really aren’t too many…
Clearwire, the world’s largest WiMAX operator who is sadly trying to desperately raise money to keep on chugging along, has announced that service in New York City will be turned on at the start of next month, at the start of December in Los Angeles, and by the end of the year in San Francisco.…
Motorola and Nokia have agreed to a licensing agreement which could help make sure that there is a smoother transition to the 4G era. Motorola and Nokia didn’t reveal many details about the deal but it will include intellectual property agreements regarding 4G products like Long-Term Evolution, WiMax and Long-Term Evolution Advanced. “We are pleased…
Not that we didn’t know the BlackBerry 9670 Style was coming to Sprint or anything, but some promotional materials have landed at retail locations, indicating a launch in the near future. The biggest thing this flyer confirms is the market name: Style. Though there was some contention about the BlackBerry 9670 launching as the Oxford,…
Boost Mobile is introducing a “Shrinkage” plan for its monthly, no-contract plans and this will make you bill cost less per month if you stay with the carrier for a while. I’ve long contended that Boost Mobile has some of the best plans around, as $50 a month will get you unlimited talk, texting and…
We already had an inkling that RIM’s next OS 6 device, the BlackBerry Style 9670 clamshell, code-named Oxford, would be finding its way to Sprint, and today there’s some added confirmation of specs and an October 31 release date thanks to this leaked slide. The price point is also locked-in for $99 on a two-year…
Sprint is trying something that car manufacturers have figured out a long time ago. Let people trade in their old model and upgrade to something new. Then take those old models, fix them up, and sell them with a stamp of approval saying that they’re good to go for another round of use. With their…