Sprints Kyocera Echo M9300 – Approved by the FCC

Most of us have heard about the Kyocera Echo M9300 smartphone Sprint is going to be releasing sometime this year, although nobody is sure of the date just yet. We can look here on the Sprint site and see all the details and price of $199.99 after MIR (mail-in rebate) with a new 2-year contract though.

Sources suggest the official launch date shouldn’t be too far away from now since it’s being heavily advertised on Sprint’s web site and now approved by the FCC.

More Sprint & T-Mobile Acquisition Rumors

We’ve heard rumors about a Sprint and T-Mobile merger in the past, and this is no different. This morning, Bloomberg is reporting about Sprint and Deutsche Telekom holding meetings to discuss a possible acquisition. The deal could reportedly give Deutsche Telekom a sizable stake in Sprint following the merger – up to 50%. Sprint had no comment, but a Deutsche Telekom spokesperson said the company “could sell all or part of the U.S. business, and all options are open.”

Overview of the Sprint HTC Arrive Windows Phone 7 Device

Take a look at the video Wirefly has recently posted giving you a detailed overview of the Sprint HTC Arrive. This Windows Phone 7 device rocks a 3.6″ LCD screen that does tilt when you slide open the keyboard. The Arrive has a 5MP camera with an LED flash and also supports HD video.

Sprint To Announce New Devices At CTIA

Sprint booked a two-and-a-half hour slot at the upcoming CTIA Wireless coming up in a few weeks. Engadget did some digging around and has come up with three possible devices that Sprint will announce in that slot. The candidates are the Nexus S 4G, Evo 3D, and Evo View. Read More…

Sprint CEO’s Bonus Up 18%

If Sprint CEO Dan Hesse hits all of his target goals this year, he’ll see a $720,000 (nearly 18%) increase in his bonus. He already makes over $10 million a year, so for him, the 18% probably isn’t very much, but its nice either way. Does he deserve it though? That’s for you to discuss. While he could see the increased bonus, he has one less responsibility. He no longer has to try to get people to sign up for Clearwire’s 4G WiMAX service. Read more…

Sprint’s new Total Equipment Protection Application

Sprint recently announced a new Total Equipment Protection application that is very useful for smartphones if you pay for the TEP insurance plan. If you lose your phone you can locate, lock, clear and restore it all with this application. To give you peace of mind you can restore your information once you recover your handset so don’t think everything is gone forever. This is something Verizon and AT&T have already been successful with so maybe Sprint will be as well.

Sprint and LightSquared in discussion to share cell sites

Sprint and LightSquared Inc. are in discussion to share cell sites equipment, helping build out each others network. The deal, if it goes through, would allow LightSquared to roll out its network faster and cheaper then their current thought of methods. With Sprint planing to spend $5 billion in infrastructure upgrades in the near future, this would leave Sprint with extra capacity in which they can offer to LightSquared is what’s being said.

Sprint’s HTC Arrive – A hands on video of the copy & paste update

Available March 20th, this device is known as a Windows Phone 7 HTC 7 Pro in Europe and the HTC Arrive in the U.S. We just want to make sure you understand that first.

It sports a QWERTY tilt-o-matic keyboard, a 3.6″ WVGA display, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a 5 mega-pixel camera with flash and 720p video recording and 16GB’s of internal storage all for only $199.99 on a two-year contract, after a $100 mail-in rebate.

HTC Arrive – Coming Soon to a Sprint Store Near You!

Today Sprint has announced its own edition of the HTC Pro 7, the HTC Arrive, making them the very first on the WP7 block for the CDMA market.

New Sprint Phone Coming Feb. 24 — but what is it? ANSWER HTC 7 PRO

So it seems Sprint has tweeted about a new phone coming out February 24th. The big question is what is it. Is it Android, WebOS, Windows Phone 7? Maybe it is an extension onto the wild Evo line, or another Samsung Device….Maybe it is the HTC 7 Pro (Gold_C).

WHAT?! Finalized Sprint HTC 7 Pro Rom?

YAY! Sprint is getting closer to a Windows Phone 7 Device. Our friends over at WPCentral have posted some Valentines Day loving for Sprint users. Yes I did say Valentines day – I don’t know if anyone caught it or not but I am now so enjoy the little late Valentines Love. They found through 91HTC the finalized Sprint Rom for the HTC 7 Pro. This should mean we are getting close to a release day.

Sprint May Announce LTE Leap Soon – How Soon? 6 Months Soon

It remains a very distinct possibility that Sprint will make the jump to LTE. Sprint issued an RFP exploring the migration to LTE, then they announced a multi-billion dollar network overhaul that could easily pave the way for such transition.

We’ve also heard it from more than one employee over the last six months that Sprint absolutely will be building an LTE Network despite executive protestations. No this should come to no surprise as we here at PPCGeeks reported the network overhaul and the fact that Clearwire has been doing LTE testing and has shown speeds of 90 mb/s burst. Of course this news was before the leaked news that Clearwire will be going wholesale, though Clearwire too has made hints they could shift to LTE – for survival reasons. Whatever the outcome, Sprint may say they’ll be making their intention clean sometime over the next 4 to 6 month time frame.

[DISCUSSION] 4th Quarter: Sprint’s Loss Narrowed & their Growth Expanded

Sprint’s hard work is paying off, but is it paying off quick enough? Let us know what you think after reading this article.

During the 4th quarter of 2010, Sprint saw a tremendous decrease in subscriber losses from the past years while also seeing tremendous increases in new subscriber activations. Before the 4th quarter was over, Sprint calculated an addition of 1.1 million new subscribers in 2010.

Sprint Announces Kyocera Echo

I know we’re a little behind the ball on this one since it was announced on Monday, but better late than never right? The Kyocera Echo is the first dual-touchscreen Android phone on the Market. This phone will be available in Spring 2011 and will run Android 2.2 (Froyo) with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. Why no Gingerbread though? It has two 3.5″ WVGA screens. Its 4.53″ long, 2.23″ wide, and 0.68″ thick. There’s also no front-facing camera, only a rear-facing 5MP camera. It will also come with an 8Gb microSD card, expandable up to 32Gb. Read more…

Sprint: The First National Wireless Carrier in U.S. to Offer International 4G Roaming

Do you have Sprint service and travel outside of the U.S. often? If so, your carrier is the first U.S. carrier to offer you International 4G roaming service. Thanks to a deal Sprint just struck with Digicel and Global Mobile, you will have 4G International Roaming access in most places outside of the U.S.