We’ve already told you that the XOHM was available in various cities, although Sprint was testing it. Starting today the XOHM is official in Baltimore and we have prices for you.

There are two versions to choose from, Home and On-the-Go. One is for your home and one for your mobile. I dare you to guess who’s who! (more…)

Is Apple taking over the mobile market in the USA? We’ve just seen yesterday how Apple has already managed to manufacture and ship 10 million handsets this year and by the end of 2008 the company should surpass it’s goal. And today we find out that the iPhone has reached the second place in US mobile sales.
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Sprint’s WiMAX network seems to be ready for action. Although not officially unveiled yet, XOHM is reported to be active in various cities besides Baltimore for testing. That means Sprint subscribers and not only can pick it up if equipped correctly. Here are the cities in which the XOHM is said to be active: Chicago, Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. or Northern Virginia. It was time for Sprint to launch the network already. They have been delaying for too long now.

You do remember the Samsung Instinct don’t you? It hasn’t been in the news for quite a while, and last time I checked it out people were still reporting various issues with the software. But Sprint managed to release yet another firmware update which might fix some of the present bugs in the Instinct.

The update version BH29 has been available OTA for a few days now. The main fix appears to be browser related. The browser has received a totally new codebase which will hopefully deal with poor navigation and page rendering. Besides the browser fix, the BH29 is said to resolve 249 tickets open since the previous release, the BF30.

Looking for some feedback from Instinct owners. Was it good for you?

When two grown-up companies like Sprint and Nextel love each other very very much, offsprings like the current Sprint Nextel will emerge. But this baby is not what Sprint had in mind from Nextel. Sprint doesn’t want to have anything to do with Nextel anymore and we’ve know for quite a while they’ve been having some problems. Couples counseling didn’t work for them and Sprint desperately wants someone to buy its Nextel corporation. (more…)

Sprint has been working for quite a while at it’s WiMAX network but it failed to launch the XOHM in Baltimore in September as the company announced earlier on.

It looks like Sprint has turned the XOHM on in Baltimore downtown area today. We have no clear idea yet
on when the XOHM will spread to the entire city. According to words on Baltimore’s streets, a 24-hour unlimited pass will cost $10 while a whole month will cost $35. Additionally you’ll have to purchase WiMAX cards which will be available from $45.

So Baltimore? Do you WiMAX or not?

Remember the Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard? You know, the really cool one? Well that keyboard was designed by Art Lebedev. The same company has developed a WiMAX concept phone together with Russian carrier Scartel.
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As predicted by most, Sprint’s imminent delay of the official launch of it’s XOHM WiMAX network, will push this official release to October. Sprint confirmed September saying that everything was going according to plan. It seems that the plan isn’t that good is it? (more…)

It’s September 14th everyone, which means the HTC Touch Diamond is ready for sale on American soil. Sprint has it for you and if that’s the phone you’ve been waiting for the last three months then go ahead and buy it.
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The iDEN BlackBerry 8350i will get you that push-to-talk service people are so crazy about. While I prefer the traditional mobile conversations, which by the way I am so good at, I can’t help but notice people and carriers embracing various handsets with push-to-talk support.

The 8350i will also have a 2.0 megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi and with the Group Connect service you will be shouting orders up to 20 people across the continent. Go to Sprint-Nextel to get yours now and look for future RIM designs meant for push-to-talk.

Samsung Highnote is another new handset from Samsung. It’s a dual slider handset which will be also available from Sprint starting with October 19th. You will get this phone for just $99.99 after $50 with the same 2 years contract.

The Highnote will indeed play music for you. The design will let you access your digital music. Sliding the phone upwards will give you access to a dial pad for better music control. You will have access to Sprint’s Music Store, Sprint’s Navigation, and web and email. There’s a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth connectivity and the speaker-independent voice recognition we’ve seen also in the Rant earlier.

Samsung has a phone ready for this October called the Samsung Rant. The Rant will be an entry level phone which will let you pay the next rent. You know, just so you won’t have to rant to your friends about buying another expensive handset which you don’t exactly need.

The phone will cost just $49.99 with a 2 years contract from Sprint and after a $50 mail-in rebate. The Rant is a slider handset with a full QWERTY keyboard, a 2 megapixel camera with video recording capability, Bluetooth, a memory card slot and it comes in red or black. There’s access to Sprint Navigation and Sprint Music Store. Sprint TV is also available and there’s speaker-independent voice recognition if you need some.

We’ll know more when it hits the market. But here’s a quick tip, Best Buy customers will get the Rant in purple, so you might check with them for more info on the handset.

Sprint has recently lifted the curtains on LG’s latest handset the, very sleek, LX600 Lotus. This phone will feature a very unique design, as you can see above, in the sense that it will feature a full QWERTY keypad in a flip style phone.

The Lg LX600 will feature Bluetooth 2.0 along with a 2.0MP camera and will be avaiable on Sprint in October for $149.99, with the QWERTY keyboard as the obvious selling point.

This is probably one of the more femenine phones due to it’s compact size and, hopefully optional, purple finish.

While we previously weren’t sure which carrier would pick up HTC’s QWERTY-touting Touch Pro, it is now known that Sprint will pick up the stylish handset come October 19th.

Expect to pay $299.99 for this device, with a 2-year contract of course, along with whatever monthly plan you decide on.

The HTC Touch Pro will launch with Windows Mobile 6.1, a 2.8″ touch-sensitive display, a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a 3.2mp camera, complete with autofocus and an LED flash. In terms of storage, the Touch Pro will allow users to pick their own limit, utilizing the included MicroSD slot.

Dell’s Studio 15 line of laptops will get 3G data cards. Sounds familiar? Sure it does since those Inspiron 9 babies have the same option.

Studio 15 laptops will feature an integrated EVDO card. Service will be available from either Verizon or Sprint. The card itself will cost $150 but a 2-year subscription from Verizon will get you a $125 off that price. That’s the price to pay if you want to get 3G broadband when you’re mobile. Or you could always tether a certain phone to a certain laptop…

Getting an HTC Touch Diamond without being forced to opt for a two-year plan from Sprint is quite easy. All you have to do is go to a Best Buy and ask for an unlocked HTC Touch Diamond. But you can’t have everything. The price is said to be pretty steep. $700, that’s how much an unlocked HTC Touch Diamond will cost in the Best Buy stores.

Or you can wait until September 14th when Sprint will launch the Diamond. Following the official release we might expect prices to drop in Best Buy stores too.

Sprint is getting ready to launch the HTC Touch Diamond in just a little less than 10 days. In recent light of Sprint’s Samsung Instinct data problems which are affecting quite a few of Sprint’s subscribers we can only but ask ourselves if future HTC owners are going to have similar software issues.

We did tell you about the Instinct in the past and no matter how many firmware upgrades Sprint rolled out, it never completely solved all issues.

We received a tip from one of our readers, a Sprint employee, which you will find below. Following the steps he mentions might get your phone working at full capacity. But then again it might not do it for you. As always, back up your data first and seek proper guidance from Sprint staff.

Here’s the solution to all your problems the we have been given

I work for sprint and have been trying insesintely for the last week to exaughst all resources available to me to make my instinct work. I used the online chat and got my MSL obviously we can not access our own accts.

Then tried every fix i new. I finally found the combonation. No matter how many times you have done the steps i am about to mention try again trust me i about traited my instinct for a mogul. LOL

Instinct Data Trouble Work Around:

(Recommended Chat w/ care through sprint.com)

Adv rep you data trouble w/ instinct no on demand, errors uncaught exception,errors 36868 and 49657.

Adv rep you have tried all the basic steps battery out, reprogram blah blah. Ask rep to cancel and resume your NAI

after NAI resumed ##MSL# reprogram

after reboot update data profile

then ##3282# & ##data# data RESTORE then enter MSL phone will reboot

Once phone back up again get to area with as much signal as possible

and perform

##RTN# & ##786# enter msl then reset to factory defaults phone will reset and try and reactivate itself

if u are in a good signal area it will reactivate quickly

Once your back to square one start opening apps that did not work before and u will find now they do and will actually upgrade properly

Be sure to back up contacts before beginning any of the above proccess. This will work as long as you reactivate in an area with good reception SPREAD THE WORD!

Thanks Zed and keep us posted.

Sprint seems ready to release the HTC Touch Diamond. I am not exactly if they were ready to announce the date officially yet. But since the Wall Street Journal managed to write a whole review I guess Sprint felt obligated to confirm the Diamond official launch for the USA. (more…)

Sprint’s subscribers have been waiting for their XOHM forever now. The WiMAX based mobile broadband is getting ready to be launched but Sprint managed to leak more info. While waiting for their partnership with Clearwire to be approved, the carrier has started building up a XOHM Member website.

The site has details about the service and about the hardware. For example, the Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition is expected to arrive for Sprint XOHM customers. A XOHM USB modem, a XOHM expresscard modem, a wireless router with Ethernet hub and a XOHM portal are also mentioned.

No prices have been published yet so we’ll be waiting to see if this month is when the XOHM will appear.

Sprint seems finally ready to release the HTC Touch Diamond. The handset will arrive in mid September which means that in a couple of weeks you are going to see it in action. The rumored price is $549.99 but hopefully there are going to be discounted prices with plans.
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Sprint Nextel appears to have lowered the price of their Phone as Modem add on plans to $15 per month. That’s a huge $35 drop from the initial $50 per month fee. That’s quite a good deal or certainly a better one than what Sprint had running before.

In order to qualify for it you’ll have to abide by some rules. First of all you will need to own a Power Vision phone which can be tethered to a computer. Then you should get a data plan if you didn’t have one, just so you have the data to tether. Keep in mind that Sprint has a 5GB monthly data usage limit and a 300MB off-network limit in place and don’t go overboard too often.

It’s not the first update we see from Sprint in their attempt to correct data problems for their Samsung Instinct. We’ve heard various complaints regarding various aspects of the Instinct applications and they keep coming in despite any previous updates.

After improving Bluetooth audio volume, web browser, signal and battery indicators in the recent update, Sprint will be releasing individual updates for various applications. These updates will include Picture Mail, the web browser, Sprint TV and Radio, Sprint Navigation, Sprint Email, Sprint Music Store, Visual Voicemail and Mobile Sync.

Expect to see various notifications to update these apps in the near future as they will not come out all in one single package.

According to leaked images and recent rumors circling the web, the HTC Touch Diamond coming from Sprint will not be black but red. Well they might have the black version two when it comes out but a red version would be even more fun.

Don’t worry there aren’t any news about the official release date or about the prices. All we have is a just a color rumor…

Wow, that’s like so cool! It is said that Sprint’s Blackberry Curve will get GPS and WiFi all into one. It’s kind of a special offer which they will simply name the 8350i. Probably RIM will name it and Sprint will sell it. Well I guess at first it was really a mind boggling problem to fit the GPS and the WiFi antenna inside the precious Curve. And now it’s all fixed.

I am guessing that’s going to happen sometime soon with Sprint and other carriers will follow. After all why buy a Curve with only one of the must have features when you can get them both now?

The Guys over at Sprint have some financial problems to say the least. We’ve seen them sell a large number of their towers a few weeks ago and we’ve heard rumors about Sprint selling Nextel.

It appears now that Google is interested in a Sprint acquisition. The rumor has been around the block last year too but it appears that now Google has a special interest in Sprint’s WiMAX network now which they would surely use to launch the first Android devices.

For now we don’t have any Android devices and no official news around the matter. Are we to see Google’s XOHM soon?