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Sprint Releases HTC Touch Pro Smartphone Online and at Sprint Stores

Nerd Grind — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:42:57 +0000

As promised, Sprint has made their HTC Touch Pro phone available for purchase online today. The base retail price of the QWERTY smartphone is $579.99, however consumers can redeem an "instant savings" of $180 combined with a $100 mail-in-rebate to bring the price down to $299.99. This, obviously, necessitates the usual two year contract. The phones are also available in person at Sprint stores.

Rumor – Palm Treo Pro Coming to US Via Sprint

Nerd Grind — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:17:08 +0000

Sprint’s website is noting that the Palm Treo Pro will be arriving to the service sometime in the future. There is no official page for the phone, which is currently available only in Europe. However, it was spotted in a product drop-down menu. If you are holding out for the stateside release before you upgrade your Sprint contract, note that the similar 800W model is available now. The Pro is just slightly thinner with a nicer battery.

Dan Hesse Decries Android as Not Being Ready to Carry Sprint Branding

Nerd Grind — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:35:00 +0000

Dan Hesse, the CEO of Sprint, decried Android’s readiness to carry the Sprint brand during a recent talk he gave at the National Press Club in Washington. He decried the Google-powered phone as not "good enough to put the Sprint brand on."

He did infer the Android would one day be able to carry the branding, it just had a lot of work to do. He promised to sell the Google device "at some time in the future." Click here for the Reuters article on the matter.

Sprint HTC Touch Pro faces delay

Nerd Grind — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:22:16 +0000

Those of you looking forward to, um, tomorrow’s launch of the Sprint HTC Touch Pro, prepare for a bubble burst. It’s not happening. Sprint cites the reason as an inventory issue. That’s certainly better than if the reason was a bug that caused your data service to only open e-mail by purveyors of penis pills. That’d be bad.

Sprint says to look for the device, for real this time, in early November. Let’s hold them to that.

Sprint Mobile Laptops

Nerd Grind — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:55:53 +0000

HP has just announced new business laptops equipped with EV-DO. They include updated versions of the HP Compaq 2710p, the 6510b, the 6910p, and the 8510 series, along with some other yet-to-be-announced models.

Each will get a free month of Sprint’s mobile broadband service if you sign up for a one or two-year contract.

USB Modem Ovation U727

Nerd Grind — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:41:53 +0000

Novatel is offering up the new and smaller USB727 with an integrated microSD slot supporting cards up to 4GB for Sprint and Verizon customers.

Designed to work with any computing device equipped with Type A USB ports, including most desktops, notebooks, tablet PCs and PDAs, to provide instant on-the-go mobile broadband access. With out-of-box support for a variety of operating systems including WindowsÂ® (Vista, XP, 2000), Mac OSÂ® X and Linux, the Ovation U727 enables users to surf the Web, check email and access important business documents with speeds similar to those of a cable or DSL connection.

"Mobile professionals and consumers alike want to make the most out of whatever equipment they carry and Sprint customers get maximum value from the Ovation U727 which delivers both high-speed access via the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network and the ability to store and access documents and other critical information," said Danny Bowman, vice president of customer equipment for Sprint. "A smaller form factor, GPS locate-and-find capabilities and newly available support for the Linux platform truly help make this a next-generation connectivity device for our customers."

Verizon customers can buy this with a $100 rebate on a two-year contract.

City-Wide WiMax in Chicago

Nerd Grind — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:37:50 +0000

I for one, have heard enough of the "maybes" and "possibles" – I want to see a city-wide wireless network in place! I don;’t even care which city. Just get it done, people!

Yesterday, Sprint and Motorola did a live demo of Sprint’s Xohm-branded, mobile WiMax service on the Chicago River.

Live video feed, even in full-screen mode, was very good and websites "loaded quickly and seemed very snappy" without any lag. The laptops used for the demonstration "all had massive PCMCIA cards" with 2x antenna while the Motorola handsets were all existing models stuffed with WiMax guts.

Here is the news we want – commercial launch is planned for April 2008 with pricing expected to match home DSL and no contracts! You do have to supply your own hardware and subscribe for as long as you like.

4th Quarter Goodies

Nerd Grind — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:29:05 +0000

Shots of Sprint’s Q4 gadgets include the LG Rumor, Touch (aka, Vogue), Palm Centro, and the Blackberry Pearl 8130.

Be Afraid! Be Very Afraid…

Nerd Grind — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:06:59 +0000

Verizon, Cingular, AT&T, Sprint, Motorola, and any other Cell Phone provider beware. The Google phone is coming out. I don’t know when, and I don’t know how they’re going to do it, but mark my words: It will be Spectacular!

From what I hear, service will be free. Hook, Line, Sinker. See you later other cell phone providers.

RAZR 2 V9m

Nerd Grind — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:35:56 +0000

Meet the RAZR 2 V9m which AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon all promise to have for you soon.

Prices will be $300 with a $50 rebate on Verizon, $250 on Sprint (both with a two-year contract), and $300 on contract with AT&T.

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