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Sprint’s Samsung Moment Now Available
Sprint’s next Android phone, the Samsung Moment is now available to purchase. Like the Verizon Droid, its a touchscreen slider with a 3.2MP camera, but it boasts an AMOLED display and an 800MHz processor. It also has the standard WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, EV-DO rev. A, visual voicemail, 3.5mm jack, microSD card and a TouchWiz UI.…
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Sprint Launches 4G In Multiple Cities
Today Sprint announced the launch of 4G WiMAX in multiple cities, including: Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary, N.C., and Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, N.C. “Sprint 4G will launch later this month in the Texas cities of Austin and San Antonio.” “In 2010, Sprint expects to launch service in multiple…
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The “Droids” are coming. All of them!
For the past few weeks, all I have been hearing about is DROID! Droid does everything you want; Droid is everywhere you need it to be (like Times Square), and it’s “App-Mashing and Multitasking”. Seems like another awesome phone, right? And that’s where we are wrong.
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[Exclusive] Sprint to give customers Free Call Forwarding on Nov. 8th
Here is an excellent piece of information that was sent to the PPCG News Room today. According to an informed source, Sprint will be unleashing conditional (no answer/busy signal) free call forwarding to any phone number, including Google Voice. This means that any incoming call to your Sprint number that encounters a busy signal or…
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Droid Does Arrive Very Soon
It looks like Verizon’s Droid will be streeting on November 6, 2009. People have been receiving emails like the one below, Only a few more days until you can get the phone that’s location-aware. Voice-recognizing. App-mashing and multitasking. It can connect you to anyone or anything at break-neck speed. It’s more than a phone. It’s…
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DROID Does Times Square
The guys over at BGR have a source that states Verizon Wireless has plans to take over Time Square’s two largest digital billboards, the NASDAQ and Reuters signs. Verizon is planning on a “first-of-its-kind” interactive experience that will let people control the signs using only voice commands. The image above is a “sneak-peak”. Source: BGR
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HTC Dragon coming to Verizon
Verizon may be offering the 1GHz Snapdragon-based Android handset called the HTC Dragon in Q4 (yeah, that would make one heck of a Christmas present)! The CDMA version was recently spotted and may be branded at the Passion when it reaches Verizon’s stable. Read more at Endgadget Thanks to our PPCGeek member dmauin717 for this…
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Sprint Palm Pixi Coming Nov. 15th
Sprint just announced the availability of its 2nd WebOS phone, the Palm Pixi. It will be available on November 15th for $99 on a two-year contract (after a $50 instant rebate and $100 mail-in rebate) with a $70/month minimum plan. “We are excited to offer the new Palm Pixi to our customers in time for…
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T-Mobile Getting HTC HD2 Next Month?
Forum user Unknown Zone posted in our forums a link to an article at ITProPortal stating “…It will also be available on T-Mobile USA by the end of next month”. We haven’t heard any other information on this, such as a price or a date, but if this is true, along with Project Dark, T-Mobile…
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AT&T Hints At End Of iPhone Exclusivity
At&t had a great last quarter, activating 3.2 million new iPhones, 40% of which were purchased by customers new to AT&T. AT&T’s exclusivity deal with Apple is expected to end next year, though neither company has disclosed the terms of the arrangement. “Even if we lose the iPhone exclusivity, we’re going to probably be the…
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Sprint and Clearwire announce more cites, dates for 4G launch
Today Sprint and Clearwire, their WiMax partner, announced several cities and completion dates for their 4G rollout collaboration. Philadelphia is expected to launch within a matter of the “next few weeks.” November will prove to be a good month for Chicago, Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth and San Antonio, as they are the next…
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Nokia sues Apple, says iPhone infringes on patents
Nokia’s just hit Apple and their iPhone with a patent infringement lawsuit, claiming that “all iPhones models shipped” infringe on ten of Espoo’s patents relating to GSM, UMTS, and WiFi. According to Nokia’s press release, the patents in question have been licensed by some 40 other companies, “including virtually all the leading mobile device vendors,”…
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[How To] Configure your Sprint Mobile Broadband Card on a Linux OS
Do you want to configure your Sprint Mobile Broadband Card with your Linux OS-running Computer and don’t know how? You are in luck as I have found something that will make your life easier. While rummaging around in the PPCG HQ News Bunker, I came across a .PDF that details how a user can set…
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T-Mobile Project Dark Pricing
Even More Plus: -contract-free -new handset FlexPay over four installments -$79.99 all-you-can-eat package -$69.99 with 1,000 voice minutes -$49.99 with unlimited voice and no data. The Even More plan would basically be a new contract plan with traditional subsidies for devices and will be priced at $99.99 for unlimited everything or $59.99 for unlimited voice…
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Cellular South to get the Hero
We just received a tip that US carrier Cellular South will be releasing the HTC Hero Android phone. It will be available on November 15th for only $99 with a 2-year contract! The will also be offering a new smartphone plan upon its release: Smartphone Unlimited (Unlimited Voice, TXT, Data) – $79.99/mo + Add a…
