Tag: Sprint

  • Sprint Palm Pre Only $79 on Black Friday

  • YouMail Visual Voicemail Free For Sprint

    YouMail today annouced that Sprint users can now use their visual voicemail service at no extra charge, but only on their Blackberry and Android phones. You can either get it from the Blackberry App World or by going to www.youmail.com and signing up for an account. This service lets you: -Quickly and easily scroll through…

  • Sprint Cutting Labor Costs By $350M

    Sprint announced today that it will be cutting back internal and external labor costs by at least $350 million in the 4th quarter of 2009. This includes layoffs of 2,000 to 2,500 positions within the company. They said most of the impacted positions will be eliminated by December 31, 2009. “The reduction impacts positions companywide,…

  • Clearwire To Get Another $1.5 Billion

    Sprint is preparing to put another billion dollars into Clearwire, its 4G WiMAX partner. Their other partners, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Intel and Google (exclude Google) are collectively putting in another $500 million into the pot. There are also rumors that Clearwire has looked at T-Mobile as another possible partner. If Sprint is losing customers…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • [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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • [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…

  • Sprint acquiring iPCS

    Sprint/Nextel announced this morning that they will be acquiring their affiliate iPCS for $831 million, including the assumption of $405 million of debt. This is really good news for those that live in an iPCS market because there has been lots of tension between Sprint/Nextel and iPCS over the years, especially after the merger with…

  • Sprint Announces New Service In Metro Stations

    Today Sprint announced service availability in the 20 busiest underground metro stations in the Washington, D.C. Metro System. The move promises to improve the workday commute for hundreds of thousands of passengers who depend on Metro to travel between their homes and workplaces each day. It also will make touring the historic sites of the…

  • Rumor or Fact? Leo/HD2 is Sprint Adonis?

    Only time will tell.  PPCGeeks user boredmug has reported that a Sprint Rep (of unknown status or position)  said the HTC Leo/HD2 will be called the Sprint Adonis and will be released around Christmas time. This doesn’t appear to have been reported anywhere else since all links point back to PPCGeeks, but if the rumor…

  • Sprint’s first Android phone, HTC Hero, now on sale

    The HTC Hero offers up a stylish looking handset that sports a multitude of nice software, including apps for Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube. The capacitive multi-touch screen device also provides home screen widgets, threaded messaging, an MP3 player, voice activated dialing and (of course) Sprint TV. The hardware supports 3G speeds (where…