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  • Virgin Mobile increases value for prepaid broadband data buckets — $60 for 5GB

    Virgin Mobile increases value for prepaid broadband data buckets — $60 for 5GB

    Posted on March 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Virgin Mobile’s Broadband2Go prepaid 3G data service made a splash last summer by offering no-contract plans that came close to competing with two-year offerings from the likes of Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. The major drawback was that the top plan, at $60, only allowed for 1GB of data usage, whereas you’d get 5GB on a contract plan.

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  • Palm Pixi hits FCC with EVDO and Wi-Fi

    Palm Pixi hits FCC with EVDO and Wi-Fi

    Posted on December 14, 2009 | No Comments
    It looks like a Wi-Fi-enabled version of the Pixi is hitting Verizon next year, at least according to this FCC filing. The filing shows CDMA/1x EVDO and Wi-Fi support along with Bluetooth and matches with the expected P121EWW model number (Sprint’s is P120EWW). So if you’re on Verizon, love you some Wi-Fi, and would consider the [...]

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  • Confirmed: Sprint Samsung Instinct HD dropping Sept. 27

    Confirmed: Sprint Samsung Instinct HD dropping Sept. 27

    Posted on September 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Circumstantial rumor > confirmed rumor > official confirmation. Such is the storied life of a mobile gadget these days. It was just last week when word of a September 27 launch date for Sprint’s Samsung Instinct HD leaked onto the Internethers, and today that rumor became substantiated. Sprint has officially announced the availability of the Samsung [...]

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  • In other news, we got to see the Palm Pixi today. It’s not too bad (but, really, no Wi-Fi?)

    In other news, we got to see the Palm Pixi today. It’s not too bad (but, really, no Wi-Fi?)

    Posted on September 9, 2009 | No Comments
    You get the feeling that Palm had something to hide today. On the surface that makes no sense, considering it officially announced the Pixi, the company's second webOS-based phone, this morning. (The company's first webOS phone, the Pre, launched to much fanfare last May, owing to an almost Bill Goldberg winning streak-like level of hype.) But as you're already aware, Apple had an announcement or two of its own today, including the inclusion of a digital camera on the iPod nano. It's unfortunate, but Apple events are really the black holes of this industry: on Apple event days, no other tech news can escape out into the wild. That is to say, unless your company name is Apple, Inc., you'd be better served laying low for the day, and make any announcements later in the week.

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  • Update: Sprint comes clean with the HTC Hero launch info

    Update: Sprint comes clean with the HTC Hero launch info

    Posted on September 3, 2009 | No Comments
    That was quick. Forget about the rumor, the redesigned HTC Hero will launch on October 11 at $180 after a $50 mail-in rebate. And yes, that's $20 under Sprint's guided missile, the Palm Pre. So let's recap, Sprint will soon be the only carrier with three of the hottest cellphones: the BlackBerry Tour, the Palm Pre, and the HTC Hero. And the carrier has some of the most reasonably priced plans. Nice.

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  • New BB Storm won’t have clicky touchscreen

    New BB Storm won’t have clicky touchscreen

    Posted on July 12, 2009 | No Comments
    BGR has some news on the new BlackBerry Storm AKA the 9550. The new phone will have a non-clicky screen and include Wi-Fi this time, making one of BlackBerry’s worst phones a bit more bearable. Some specs: ▪ CDMA 1xRTT/EVDO Rev. A ▪ Quad-band GSM/EDGE ▪ Single-band UMTS/HSDPA (2100MHz only) ▪ Wi-Fi b,g ▪ 3.2 megapixel camera ▪ 360×480 resolution capacitive screen ▪ OS 5.0 There is also talk of [...]

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  • Virgin Mobile USA offers Broadband2Go service with no contract

    Virgin Mobile USA offers Broadband2Go service with no contract

    Posted on June 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Using Sprint’s EVDO Rev. A network, Virgin Mobile USA announced today the launch of their wireless broadband service, Broadband2Go. When the service goes live later this month you’ll be able to purchase a Novatel Ovation MC760 USB dongle for $150 sans contract. Pay-as-you-go VM Top-Up cards can be purchased in the following increments: 100MB, 250MB, 500MB and 1GB. Here’s where it gets a little confusing; 100MB will cost you $10, but you have to use that within 10 days. For $20 you get 250MB, 600MB for $40 and 1GB for $60, which have to be used within 30 days.

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