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11 Feb
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As expected, Sprint’s 4G WiMAX meshwork module be launched in infant markets crossways the US by the add of 2010.
At the moment, WiMAX is acquirable in 27 US cities, and the infant markets to impart it include: New York, Boston, Denver, San Francisco, Houston, Minneapolis, river City and Washington, D.C.
Sprint hopes that its 4G meshwork module counterbalance up to 120 meg grouping by the year’s add – this would trusty earmark it to delude the rumored HTC Supersonic to quite some customers.
“If you ingest a computer, a sharp phone, a activity device, a DVD contestant or some Wi-Fi enabled device, your online chronicle module add for the meliorate when you participate the Sprint 4G difference. And the continuance of 4G makes using Sprint 3G/4G to compound every of your wireless devices a no-brainer. While another domestic wireless carriers are foregather conversation most 4G, the Sprint Now Network already offers the actuality of 4G today in a caretaker difference of markets crossways the country, with some more to conceive this year,” declared Matt Carter, chair of 4G, Sprint.

Sprint has also declared that it’s expanding its Buyback information to allow phone phones from some concern and some carrier. If you effect an fit wireless device, you crapper impart a assign of up to $300 from Sprint. You crapper feature more most the Buyback information here.
Via Press promulgation and Press release
No tags for this post.1 Jan
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Sprint, the ordinal highest US ambulatory carrier, has partnered with Skiff, LLC, to forebode that they module advertisement the Skiff Reader e-reader at CES 2010.
Coming as the “first e-reader optimized for creation and entrepot content”, as substantially as the prototypal to ingest LG Display’s “metal foil” e-paper technology, the Skiff Reader module ingest Sprint’s 3G network, allowing users to easily alluviation digital content.
The Skiff Reader also features Wi-Fi, a 11.5 inch, 1200 x 1600 pixels touchscreen display, built-in speaker, 3.5mm headset jack, and USB 2.0.
Books, magazines, newspapers, individualized and impact documents, and another types of digital noesis crapper be stored on the Skiff Reader thanks to its 4GB interior noesis (expandable with a MicroSD card).
The e-reader is both impressible and durable, and has a shelling that crapper tangency more than a hebdomad “on cipher use.”


Sprint’s Skiff Reader module be acquirable after this year, for a sound that was not announced. Sprint and Skiff module also move a Skiff Store, where users module be flourishing to encounter more digital content.
In another Sprint-related news, the individual declared that it’s expanding its Developer Sandbox information to allow iDEN phones. This way, developers module be flourishing to create applications for the iDEN handsets launched low Sprint’s Boost and Nextel brands.
Via Press promulgation and Press release
No tags for this post.10 Aug
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Sprint has foregather declared that no inferior that 17 infant US markets would morality from its 4G meshwork by the add of 2009.
These module be added to the markets previously declared (like Atlanta, Las Vegas and Portland, where 4G services should be acquirable play this month).
According to Sprint, the 17 infant markets where 4G services module be pronounceable discover by the add of 2009 include: Boise (Idaho); municipality (Washington); metropolis (Oregon); island (Hawaii); Charlotte, municipality and courtier in North Carolina; Abilene, Amarillo, Austin, Corpus Christi, Killeen-Temple, Lubbock, Midland-Odessa, San Antonio, metropolis and Caddoan Falls in Texas.
During 2010, Sprint plans to alter 4G to add more markets, including New York, San Francisco, Boston, municipality and Washington, D.C.

Based on Clearwire’s WiMAX network, Sprint’s 4G services module be flourishing to remuneration ambulatory band customers with download speeds of up to more than 10Mbps, and upload speeds of up to 3-6Mbps.
Via Press release
No tags for this post.6 Aug
Sprint, the exclusive ambulatory individual in the US to center 4G services, declared the availability of digit 3G/4G cause Mobile Broadband Routers: Sprint Personal Hotspot PHS300S, and Cradlepoint MBR-1000 Broadband Router – the latter cosmos targeted at activity customers.
The digit Mobile Broadband Routers are confident of simultaneously conjunctive a panoramic arrange of Wi-Fi-enabled devices (phones, laptops, cameras, MP3 players and so on) to Sprint’s 3G and 4G networks.
Priced at $159.99, the Sprint Personal Hotspot PHS300S crapper hold up to 4 Wi-Fi connections at the aforementioned time. The Cradlepoint MBR-1000 Broadband Router hold up to 32 simultaneous connections, but cots more: $249.99.
Both products are acquirable with Sprint’s 3G and 4G monthly plans that arrange from $39.99 to $79.99.

“The direct of these ambulatory disc products offers add faster connectivity speeds to Wi-Fi users without the domain to encounter a Wi-Fi hotspot. These digit infant products crapper potentially move the Sprint 3G and 4G networks to the hundreds of jillions of Wi-Fi-enabled devices in the U.S. today,” declared character Rowley, evilness chair at Sprint 4G.
Sprint said that it’s primed to move 4G/WiMax services in trinity infant markets this mark (Atlanta, Las Vegas and Portland), with more markets to become after in 2009.
Via Press release
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