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  • Sprint EVO 4G will ship with storage bug

    Sprint EVO 4G will ship with storage bug

    Posted on June 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Uh-oh! It seems that the super-fab (but electrically challenged) Sprint EVO 4G will be shipping with an unintentional stow-away. Reports are floating around the net that some users who received their EVOs at Google I/O the other week are unable to save files to the MicroSD card. Instead, they get a permission error.

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  • Sprint selling HTC EVO 4G on June 4 for $199

    Sprint selling HTC EVO 4G on June 4 for $199

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Sprint_selling_HTC_EVO_4G_on_June_4_for_199_Engadget'; Everyone's favorite WiMAX-powered Android device finally has a date and a price, and you don't have terribly long to wait: June 4 is the date that you'll want to be lining up outside your local Sprint store for an EVO 4G, $199 in hand (assuming you're signing up for a new contract, of course -- according to the fine print, the full cost is $450 before all discounts). Interestingly, Sprint has specifically called out that you'll be able to video chat (remember, the EVO 4G has a front-facing cam) over both 3G and 4G using Qik -- not a bad choice, considering the company's well-established expertise with streaming live video out of handsets.

    Unfortunately, there's a downside to all this: customers will be paying a mandatory (as confirmed to us by Sprint reps) $10 per month "Premium Data add-on" on top of their plan -- ostensibly for the privilege of enjoying WiMAX when they're in a Sprint 4G market -- and the 8-device WiFi hotspot feature runs an extra $29.99 a month, which Sprint is quick to point out is half what you'd pay for a dedicated mobile broadband account. As we saw at CTIA, the phone is the first to offer on-phone YouTube high quality video, a feature that automatically kicks in when you're in the sweet confines of a WiMAX tower. Oh, and check this out: Sprint was hesitant to commit to offering simultaneous voice and data before, but HTC must've worked out the kinks, because it's all systems go -- you'll be able to yap and browse on 4G at the same time.

    We're at the EVO 4G's announcement in New York as we type, and we can tell you that everything Sprint is demoing is crazy fast -- we'd expect no less from an WiMAX device with a 1GHz Snapdragon -- and we're particularly stoked to see them demo Need For Speed Shift on it, which will be launching on Android around the same time as the device. Follow the break for Sprint's full press release!

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    Sprint selling HTC EVO 4G on June 4 for $199 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 May 2010 18:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Sprint HTC Touch Pro2 definitely getting Windows Mobile 6.5 on Friday

    Sprint HTC Touch Pro2 definitely getting Windows Mobile 6.5 on Friday

    Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Still having a hard time believing that the Sprint Touch Pro2 will finally be getting the Windows Mobile 6.5 update treatment Friday, March 19th? Believe it, dear reader. Our boy 99accordv6 just sent over a stack of documents all positively pinning the update on 3/19/10, the most clear of which is pictured up above. While the [...]

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  • Leaked: Sprint HTC Touch Pro2 to get Windows Mobile 6.5 this week

    Leaked: Sprint HTC Touch Pro2 to get Windows Mobile 6.5 this week

    Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Are you ready for your Windows Mobile 6.5 update, Sprint HTC Touch Pro2 owners? You should be -- given that every other carrier threw 6.5 on the Pro2 months ago, you're probably champin' at the bit by now. We knew it was coming this month -- we just didn't know when. Thanks to your friendly neighborhood Sprint store spy, we've now got an exact date.

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  • Sprint Samsung Moment updated for anyone willing to leave their house

    Sprint Samsung Moment updated for anyone willing to leave their house

    Posted on January 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember the good ol' days of being a cell phone owner? Back when you could probably name every color your screen could display, 2G data connections were mind blowing, and gettin' your firmware flashed meant taking a trip to the good ol' neighborhood carrier outlet? Yeah - we're back to that.

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  • Sprint puts out fact sheet for dual-mode U301 WiMAX modem, release imminent?

    Sprint puts out fact sheet for dual-mode U301 WiMAX modem, release imminent?

    Posted on December 19, 2009 | No Comments
    So Sprint just published an official fact sheet for a U301 USB modem with support for both WiMAX and EV-DO -- it's not accompanied by any press release or product page on Sprint's online store, but we can only assume this means that a release is around the corner. Of course, the dual-mode capability alone doesn't set it apart -- the carrier's existing U300 model already handles those duties with aplomb -- but what seemingly sets the U301 apart is its support for Mac OS. We'd just as soon they'd release drivers for the U300, but failing that, alright, fine, we'll take a new modem. If we're sustaining over 3Mbps down, we'll take a lot of carrier and manufacturer abuse, actually.

    Sprint puts out fact sheet for dual-mode U301 WiMAX modem, release imminent? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Amazon selling Samsung Moment for $100 less than Sprint

    Amazon selling Samsung Moment for $100 less than Sprint

    Posted on November 25, 2009 | No Comments
    Amazon is continuing its fabulous tradition of making carriers look like money-grubbing jerks this week with a solid deal on Samsung's Android-powered Moment for Sprint, which can now be yours for $79.99 on contract. That's versus a considerably more finance-destroying $179.99 figure if you were to walk into a brick-and-mortar Sprint store -- and even bests Best Buy's deal by $20. Considering that OLED display and the fact that the Sammy's core clips along at 10 times the megahertz of Amazon's price, $80 out-of-pocket sounds pretty reasonable. Unfortunately, Android 1.5 doesn't sound as reasonable these days -- so here's hoping that 2.0 trickles down to this sucker on the double.

    [Thanks, Ron]

    Amazon selling Samsung Moment for $100 less than Sprint originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Sprint lights up WiMAX in NC, Chicago and Dallas, launches subsidized Mini 10

    Sprint lights up WiMAX in NC, Chicago and Dallas, launches subsidized Mini 10

    Posted on November 2, 2009 | No Comments

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    Don't you just love it when a plan comes together? Or better yet, when a leaked roadmap doesn't get delayed in the slightest? After months upon months of waiting, broadband-lovin' citizens in the North Carolina Triangle and Triad will be celebrating alongside DFW residents and Chicago natives as Sprint's 4G WiMAX service rolls into town. As of right now (that's today, junior), consumers in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point and Charlotte, NC; Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas and Chicago, Illinois can roll into a Sprint store and snag a U300 3G / 4G WWAN modem on a $69.99 monthly data plan. We're told that San Antonio and Austin will get lit up later this month, while Honolulu and Maui, Hawaii; Salem, Oregon and Seattle, Washington will join the fray before 2010. Oh, and did we mention that Palm's favorite carrier finally snagged itself a WWAN-equipped netbook? 'Cause the Dell Mini 10 is available starting today for $199.99 at select Sprint stores in the metropolitan Baltimore area.

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    Sprint lights up WiMAX in NC, Chicago and Dallas, launches subsidized Mini 10 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Analyst Finds Palm Pre Sales Stabilize At Ho-Hum Levels

    Analyst Finds Palm Pre Sales Stabilize At Ho-Hum Levels

    Posted on July 14, 2009 | No Comments
    Despite the early fanfare and limited inventory at launch, Sprint doesn't seem to be hitting it out of the park with the new Palm Pre. Earlier this month we reported on some channel checks by JNK Securities analyst Mike Ehrlich, who called 50 Sprint stores and found out that sales were lackluster. Yesterday, he issued a new report based on channel checks from last Thursday and Friday, Week 5 after the Pre's launch. Of the stores willing to discuss sales volumes, here is the breakdown of demand on a per-store basis:
      Week 5 Palm Pre Sales Per Sprint Store
    • 10 units or less: 30% (vs. 40% the prior week)
    • 10 to 20 units: 45% (vs. 33% the prior week)
    • 20 to 30 units: 18% (vs. 16% the prior week)
    • 30 to 50 units: 12% (no comparable)

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