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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 08, 2012
Sprint this morning announced its Q4 2011 earnings, which, basically, were all about the iPhone and the revamping of its entire network. It added 1.6 million net subscribers in the fourth quarter --...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 08, 2012
Sprint this morning announced that Baltimore and Kansas City will be the beneficiaries of its new LTE network when it launches later this year. That's to go along with Atlanta, Dallas, Houston a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 02, 2012
Sprint today announced that the HTC EVO Shift 4G is getting a software update. Here's what's new in software version 2.77.651.3:
Security Update
Updated Peep client ( to align ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 02, 2012
We first outed the $99 ZTE Optik Honeycomb tablet a week ago, and today Sprint has made it official. The 7-inch Android 3.2 device will be available Feb. 5. Spec-wise, the Optik is right up there wi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 28, 2012
The official Google sign-up page for the Sprint Galaxy Nexus is now live, waiting for all Sprint subscribers to register for "more information". We've known it was coming since S...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 26, 2012
It was a landmark Android device, and it's been an iconic phone for Sprint, but it seems that this past week finally saw the venerable HTC EVO 4G reach end-of-life (EOL) status. According to an ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 25, 2012
The ZTE Optik just made an appearance in the latest issue of the Sprint Playbook, and it's coming in at the right price. Because Sprint is dropping their Wimax support and building out the...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 25, 2012
Sprint today is rolling out the EL29 update for the Epic 4G Touch (aka the Samsung Galaxy S II). This is the update we first told you about a week ago when the source code dropped. And today, the up...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 22, 2012
Motorola has made an official request for "Pre-release software testers" of an unknown update for the Motorola Photon 4G. This is standard practice for Motorola, who likes to slowly ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 19, 2012
A giant question mark hanging fairly quietly over the head of Android (and maybe moreso Google) has been Google Wallet. That's the service that lets you pay for things with a credit card account...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 19, 2012
Sprint has over-the-air updates scheduled to roll out beginning today for the HTC EVO 4G, the Samsung Epic 4G, and the EVO Design 4G. Using the opportunity presented by removing Carrier IQ, Sp...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 19, 2012
This is getting interesting. After the recent news that federal testing determined LightSquared's LTE network plans would never work without interfering with GPS (and a cease to any furthe...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 18, 2012
Both the Samsung Epic 4G and the Samsung Epic 4G Touch have new kernel source up at Samsung's open source portal. The Original Epic 4G has the kernel and other open-source bits for update ...
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by Jared DiPane
Jan 16, 2012
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After going hands-on with the LG Viper at CES during the stylish-yet-dark Sprint party, we just had to get our hands back on one of these devices t...
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by Jared DiPane
Jan 13, 2012
Just the other day Sprint announced that they were going to be rolling out their 4G LTE network along with the first four cities to get it, but one thing that was also included in the presser was a ...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 11, 2012
An early Sprint LTE landing page listed the Sprint Galaxy Nexus as having 16GB of internal storage, compared to the 32GB offered by the Verizion version. Sprint got in touch with us today, however, ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 10, 2012
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Not a whole lot to say about the LG Viper from our brief time with it at Sprint's little get-together at the Tao nightclub in Las Vegas. You're looking at a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 10, 2012
So here's the thing about the Sprint Galaxy Nexus: It's a Galaxy Nexus. On Sprint. We can only show you the front of it here, because that's all we were allowed to take pictures of. And ...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 09, 2012
To go along with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus that will be arriving with LTE on Sprint, another device will also be joining the party. The LG Viper 4G LTE is Android 2.3 powered device, with a 5MP shoot...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 09, 2012
Update: Sprint has gotten in touch to let us know that the 16GB was posted in error, and in fact their version of the Galaxy Nexus will come with 32GB of internal storage.
Following their recent 4G...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 07, 2012
Here's another nice look at the Sprint Epic 4G Touch in white thanks to a couple of insiders, and this one shows us the software these white beauties will be shipping with. If anyone was s...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 07, 2012
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What's allegedly a set of speed tests of a computer using a Huawei-made LTE hotspot running on Sprint's LTE network has surfaced. There's not a lot...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 06, 2012
It's a little grainy, and it's wrapped in plastic, but here's your first look at the white version of the Samsung Galaxy S II Sprint Epic 4G Touch. Remember that it's the same as the...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 06, 2012
In case you missed it late last night, a report from Greg Bensinger of Dow Jones Newswires that stated Sprint is throttling the top 1 percent of its unlimited users was not correct. (Dow Jones has y...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 05, 2012
Update 2: Much ado about nothing, folks. Apparently Hesse said "roaming," and Dow Jones or whomever missed it entirely. Go about your postpaid, non-roaming business.
Update: And jus...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 05, 2012
More in the Sprint Galaxy Nexus forums!
Want an LTE Galaxy Nexus, but don't want to switch away from Sprint? That's understandable, we should always stick with the carrier who work...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 05, 2012
Sprint's making the jump from Wimax to LTE in 2012 (well, Wimax will keep working for some time), and CEO Dan Hesse just annouced the first markets for the new brand of 4G. They are:
Atl...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 05, 2012
If you've got a hankering for a Sprint Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch in white, get thee to thy nearest Sprint retail channel (in stores, online, and telesales) starting Jan. 8, as that...
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by Sean Brunett
Jan 04, 2012
The Samsung Replenish, Sprint's first environmentally friendly smartphone, has begun getting its Gingerbread update. This has to be welcome news for Replenish users who haven't heard about u...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 31, 2011
HTC has released the kernel source for the EVO Design 4G, and its US Cellular cousin, the HTC Hero S. The specific version is 2.6.35 for Gingerbread, which is the current kernel running on the...
