Your Sprint account will change in the near future. Go to Online Tools and you will see what I mean. PCS Mail and Calendar are two services which will be discontinued by Sprint. If you were relying on these particular tools you might consider switching to some other program for your mail and calendar. By December 31st you will have to save all those mails and messages as that’s when PCS Mail and Calendar going to be discontinued.

Tags: Mobile News, PCS Mail. Calendar, Sprint, Sprint

Sprint’s and Clearwire’s merger has been finnaly approved by the FCC which means we should be waiting for more WiMAX support soon. Sprint has shared it’s XOHM WiMAX with Clearwire and Clearwire has received no less than $3.2 billion of investments from Comcast and Goolgle.

After the merger Clearwire will take care of most aspects of the WiMAX business while Sprint will deal with its Nextel and iDen networks. So let’s see what the next year will bring new in terms of WiMAX support.
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Tags: Clearwire, fcc, Mobile News, Sprint, Sprint, wimax

You know how Sprint is doing these days? Well certainly not good. After loosing $326 million and 1.3 million subscribers in Q3 they are looking to cut costs down. You got it, they are going to fire some employees. But they have this new idea which might convince anyone working for Sprint to quit their job. Sprint is ready to compensate your voluntary resignation. Quit your job and get some money out of it. Retail store employees, managers, administrative and executive assistants will not be allowed in the program though. Inevitably the carrier will end up firing some people so watch out what you choose to do. The compensation package will be available until December 3rd so you’d have to make up your mind by then.

Tags: Mobile News, Sprint, Sprint

FCC was pretty busy these days! Besides approving Verizon’s purchase of Alltel, the FCC has analyzed Sprint’s and Clearwire’s partnership and it has given its Ok to their romance too.

We’re looking forward to see how their WiMAX network offspring will work out in the future. The two companies plan to offer its WiMAX services to 140 million people in about 30 months or so. We’ll be looking forward to report more on this beautiful new WiMAX love story.

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Tags: Clearwire, fcc, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Sprint, Sprint, wimax

Sprint has announced the Sanyo Katana Eclipse X, a better version of the already released Katana Eclipse. What’s better? Sprint’s One Click interactive user interface will let you customize the phone’s home screen as you like. Add shortcuts like Sprint’s Now Network or anything that’s on your favorite list.

The Eclipse X has a unique illumination feature which will let you assign lots of lightning schemes to incoming calls, SMS messages and alerts. Besides that, here are the rest of this Eclipse’s features:

• 2.0 inch TFT internal display with 176 x 220 pixels
• 1.0 inch external display
• GPS & Sprint Navigation
• Sprint Mobile Email
• Sprint TV
• Sprint Music Store
• MP3 player
• Stereo Bluetooth
• Wireless Backup
• 1.3 MP camera with video recording
• 256MB MicroSDHC card

The Eclipse X will be available for $99 with a two-year Sprint agreement.

via Sprint

Tags: Katana eclipse, Mobile News, Sanyo, Sanyo, Sprint, Sprint

If you happen to go to Sprint’s website, don’t forget to check out the HTC Touch Pro. The handset is now available for $299 after a $100 mail-in rebate and with a two-year contract. You’d have to choose an Everything plan, Data Premier add-on or a PRO Pack in order to take advantage of the rebate.

With the HTC G1 out there and with the Storm approaching for a rumored incredible low price, the Touch Pro might not be the hottest phone out there, but it’s certainly a handset to be considered in case you’re looking to buy a new phone!

via Sprint

Tags: HTC, HTC Touch Pro, Mobile News, Portable Devices, Sprint, Sprint

According to the image above, the Palm Treo Pro will be available from Sprint in the near, or far for that matter, future. The screenshot above shows Sprint’s website which has the Palm Treo Pro as an option in the drop-down menu. The phone is available in Europe-only at the time but Sprint might just be the next carrier to pick it up.

via Gizmodo

Tags: Mobile News, Palm, Palm, Palm Treo, Palm Treo Pro, Sprint, Sprint

Sprint has just change is policy regarding its Early Termination Fees. From November 2nd, for every month you keep your Sprint contract after you sixth month, the company will cut $10 off the early termination fee. If you cancel your contract you will end up paying anywhere from $50 to the maximum $200.

The new rules apply to contracts signed after November 2nd so in order to take advantage of them you should ask for a new Sprint contract on Monday. Any comments on that?

Tags: etf, Mobile News, Sprint, Sprint

Well here’s a surprise! After we’ve seen Sprint’s CEO saying that the current Android device can’t live up to his expectations, we have Verizon declaring that the G1 isn’t good enough either. Verizon wants its people ready to answer customers should those ask the G1 question… Why not get a G1 from T-Mobile instead of a Verizon phone?

Read the reasons below. Among those we have “super-limited 3G coverage”, “music downloads via Amazon MP3 limited to WiFi”. Well then I wonder if T-Mobile is going to go through the similar trouble when the Storm comes!

via EngadgetMobile

Tags: G1, Research In Motion, RIM, Sprint, Sprint, Storm, T-Mobile, T-Mobile, Verizon, Verizon

Sprint wants apparently to make some money of medical students. The carrier has discount Windows Mobile phones for the students of the Louisville University. Besides being cheaper, the smartphones will give you access to the university’s email and address book system and to various medical applications.

Sprint will offer various handsets and the HTC Touch Diamond is included. We don’t have specific prices or plans for those medical students yet but Sprint’s initiative isn’t bad at all. We’ll return with numbers and availability dates when they become available.

Tags: HTC Touch Diamond, medical students, Mobile News, Portable Devices, Sprint, Sprint, Windows Mobile

Remember when good old Steve Ballmer said the iPhone wasn’t going to make it? Well it looks like Sprint’s CEO, Dan Hesse decided he had to talk publicly against Google’s Android. He told the National Press Club in Washington that Android as it is right now isn’t good enough to put the Sprint brand on it.

But Android in the current form is good enough to sell in over 1.5 million units? What do you answer to that Mr. Hesse? What if Google made Sprint ungoogleable for a while in response to such accusations?

Tags: Android, CEO, Dan Hesse, Google, Google, Mobile Software, Sprint, Sprint

The day some of us have been waiting for has finally arrived! Sprint released the HTC Touch Pro with limited availability through select national retailers beginning this Monday, October 27th.

Everyone else who won’t get one of those limited first handsets will be able to get them starting with November 2nd when the phone will be available in all Sprint stores. The handset will cost you $299 with a 2-year agreement if you already have an everything plan or a $25 data add-on.

Tags: HTC, HTC Touch Pro, Mobile News, Sprint, Sprint

Here’s somewhat of a shocker news. Sprint isn’t known at all for great customer care. En contraire, we’ve seen numerous reports suggesting that the customer service department could certainly be improved.

A recent Pali Research report found out that Sprint’s wireless customer service was the best available now. Some two years back Sprint was last in the same category. It looks like the current customer care department has answered 91% of calls in under 30 seconds while 99% of calls were answered in 2 minutes. Verizon came next with 85%, T-Mobile was third with 43% and AT&T got just 33% in half a minute.

Does that mean you should switch to Sprint? Not at all. It will be just a little while until a different report will show how a different carrier is the best in the whole class at cracking nuts or something like that. Any Sprint customers care to comment on Sprint’s customer support?

Tags: customer care, Mobile News, Sprint, Sprint

In case you plan to go to a Sprint store anytime soon, then look for these new phones. The LG Lotus, the Samsung Rant and the Highnote are there for the taking and they have Sprint written all over them.

The Lotus and the Rant have QWERTY keyboards which will be really appreciated by some. The Lotus is a flip phone that gets you wide screen and the full keyboard. It’s available in black and purple and it will follow you home for $149 with a contract.

The Rant is your standard candybar phone with a slideout keyboard. It has EV-DO support, SprintTV and GPS. It costs just $49.99 when purchased with a contract. It comes in red and black if you are looking for a specific color.

The Highnote is a Samsung music phone. It’s a dual slide phone which will show you its stereo speakers when you slide the LCD down, or the keypad when you slide it up. It comes in red and blue and costs $99 with a contract.

Which one would you buy?

Tags: LG, LG, Mobile News, Other Brands, Samsung, Samsung, Sprint, Sprint

Is Sprint going to release the Palm Treo Pro soon? We don’t know even if the CDMA Treo Pro is being manufactured, let alone come from a Sprint store. But it looks like people have seen a “Sprint Treo850e” showing 160 kbps with .229s of latency on the spcsdns.net network while checking mobule speed tests. Hmm! Ok folks, I need more than that! Take a look at the screenshot above and make up your own mind. But if Sprint is bringing the Treo Pro, we’ll be on it!
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Sprint was going to launch the HTC Touch Pro smartphone on October 19th which is just two days away from now. The new release date might be scheduled for the end of the month or early November.
Sprint officials claim that the delay is caused by insufficient supply. The phone is expected to sell really well and Sprint doesn’t want to be caught off guard near the holiday season. In the mean time Best Buy is going to release the phone before Sprint does, so check with them if you desperately need the Touch Pro.

Tags: best buy, HTC, HTC Touch Pro, Mobile News, Sprint, Sprint

The Samsung SPH-I325 phone that was made for Sprint and presented in 2007, has just received an update in the form of a better operative system. Instead of Windows Mobile 6, it now features version 6.1.

The Sprint Ace also has another upgrade option, related to GPS navigation using the Spring system. In order to make the upgrade, you need a few basic tools: Windows Vista/XP on your computer, a USB data cable, Active Sync 4.5, and the cellphone itself.

What are the advantages of using Windows Mobile 6.1 instead of the previous version?

- View & Edit Excel® and Word® files on the go.
- Chat-style text messaging. (more…)

Tags: ace, Cell Phones, Samsung, Samsung, Sprint, Sprint

Are you still hooked on the Palm Centro? If you want it in a more colorful color, you should go to a Sprint store near you and ask around for the colored Palms. Besides red, black and pink, Sprint is going to offer it in vibrant rose and olive green. That sounds simply too god to be true. I always wanted an olive green handset unless I didn’t.

The new colors will be available starting with October 19, and they are based on fashion trends forecasted by the color experts of the Pantone Fashion Color Reports for fall 2008 and spring 2009. The new colors are available for new prices. Instead of the low $99.99 the Palms will cost a lower $79.99 if you get one until January 10.

Tags: colors, Mobile News, Palm, Palm Centro, Sprint, Sprint

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…)

Tags: Mobile News, Sprint, Sprint, wimax, XOHM

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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