All Entries Tagged With: "Sprint"

Verizon Exclusive, Palm Pixi Plus and Pre Plus with Tethering

Palm just confirmed the existence of the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus. No announcement has been made on pricing details just yet, but they did give us a launch date of January 25th.

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Now Available for Sprint Devices, webOS Doctor for 1.3.5

Palm has just posted a webOS Doctor version containing this latest version, webOS 1.3.5, for Sprint Pre and Pixi customers.

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Firmware Update Released; Sprint HTC Hero

Sprint and HTC have just released a firmware update for the Hero. It appears to be a minor update, weighing in at only 3.5MB.

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Sprint Palm Pixi, Available November 15th

Palm has officially announced that the Palm Pixi will be available on Sprint Wireless on November 15th. The tiny Palm Pixi will be priced at $99.99 (with a 2-year agreement, after rebates). The Palm Pixi will be available at Sprint stores, Best Buy and select Walmart, Radio Shack locations.

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Apple 1; Palm 0

Apple and Palm have long disagreed on whether Palm device owners  can use iTunes to sync their libraries to their Palm devices since the launch of the Pre. Earlier this summer, Palm complained to the USB Implementers Forum, the group that oversees USB connection standards. They claim that Apple is restraining trade by not allowing non-Apple devices to access iTunes.

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Tough Times for Sprint?

Sprint is near the top of a list of ten companies veering toward bankruptcy, according to a report published last week by Yahoo Finance. With the possibility of losing over 4.4 million customers by year-end, and rumors of a possible takeover by Deutsche Telekom fizzling, it looks like Sprint will have to go it alone for the near future.

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First Look: Sprint’s HTC Hero Android Phone

Sprint Hero review units began shipping out this week and reviews started showing up today. The general consensus is that the device is awesome and it will be the best Android phone available for American customers when it launches October 11, 2009.

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Sprint Introduces “Any Mobile, Anytime” Plan

Sprint has been getting better at keeping their existing customers, but what can they do to draw in new ones? Enter Sprint’s Any Mobile, Anytime plan.

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Best Buy, Better Deal for HTC Hero Android Phone

The HTC Hero Android phone will be coming to Sprint on October 11, with an offer of $179.99 after a $50 instant rebate and a $100 mail-in rebate. Best Buy has the something even better. How about an instant rebate instead?

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Palm Pre Virtual Keyboard Made Easy

Are you tired of typing on the Pre’s little keyboard? If so, you can thank the folks at WebOS Internals, who have been hard at work to make their on-screen keyboard a functioning reality on the Palm Pre.

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Make Dinner Reservations with OpenTable for the Palm Pre

OpenTable is a cool restaurant reservation and reviews application for the Palm Pre. Allowing you make free reservations in thousands of restaurants across the country with immediate confirmation of your reservation. The app knows your location, so you can see restaurants nearby as well as view their availability.

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The $99 Palm Pre Mistake

Some lucky customers bought the new Palm Pre for $99 at their local Best Buy store, despite Palm Pre’s $199 pricing. How may you ask? The confusion began at Best Buy stores nationwide when a picture of an in-store banner was posted online of a week long special of a $99 Pre with a 2-year contract.

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NFL Mobile Live Coming To Palm Pre August 1st

The National Football League are releasing NFL Mobile Live application for the Palm Pre next month on August 1st. The application will be included in an OTA software update directly from Palm but will come pre-loaded on Palm Pre phones that are purchased after August 1, 2009.

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Sprint Pushing Hard For Palm Pre Sales, Sends Huge Mailer

Sprint is trying real hard to push sales of the Palm Pre and gain market share back from Apple with their dominating success of the iPhone. Today in the mail I received this huge mailer from Sprint (see photo, note taken with an Apple iPhone 3GS) offering a $199.99 special on the Pre until July 31st and a headline theme “Out with the old. In with the Now. Switch today and get the new Palm Pre, exclusively from Sprint”.

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Sprint Introduces New Palm Pre Ad, Takes Bite Out of Apple and AT&T

Sprint are trying real hard to push sales for the Palm Pre, this time taking it a step further and specifically targeting AT&T and Apple in one of their new advertisements. The ad points out that the Palm Pre can run multiple applications at once and save each user $1,200 over a two year time span in comparison to the Apple iPhone.

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RIM Launches BlackBerry Tour July 12 to Verizon and Sprint

Research In Motion are trying to steal some sales thunder from Apple by releasing the BlackBerry Tour to both wireless carriers, Verizon Wireless and Sprint. The phone will be available on July 12th for $199.99 with contract after rebates.

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Palm Pre Tethering Fail, Palm Interjects Behalf of Sprint

With the release of the Palm Pre last week which brought record crowds for Sprint, Palm have quietly stepped forward and asked developers across the net to not release information regarding internet tethering for the phone. The comments come as a special request by Palm on the behalf of Sprint, who do not allow tethering at all across their network for the Palm Pre phone.

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Appmodo Comparison: iPhone 3.0 vs Palm Pre vs Android G2 vs BlackBerry Storm

The Apple iPhone and 2.0 software update helped introduce a whole new market of applications to the mobile phone world. Due to the massive increase in demand for mobile applications, competitors like Google, Palm Inc, and Research In Motion Limited (RIM) have all stepped up to the plate to deliver their versions of multi-touch screen and gesture controlled phones with the ability to command powerful mobile applications, all helping revolutionize the industry.

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