By: Juan February 28th, 2011
A group of our very own Moderators were present at this year’s CES Conference. I’m sure you saw some of their posts from Las Vegas earlier this year. Anyway, in the midst of their travels a small arsenal of products was built up. It is this collection of wonder that we are looking to giveaway.
How can you get in the action? Follow this link: http://sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2495182#post2495182
By: Juan February 26th, 2011
Say what? How’s a little city like Yuma getting some bigtime 4G power now? If you live anywhere near Yuma, AZ you need to post here:
http://sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2493796#post2493796
By: Chico February 25th, 2011
Today HTC announced that the new HTC Merge smartphone will be made available through multiple North American carriers beginning in spring 2011. The HTC Merge will come with Android 2.2, a 3.8 inch screen, 5mp camera, and 720p video recording capabilities. This will be HTC’s first Android based CDMA world phone. Now HTC is saying multiple North American carriers will carry the device, there are only a couple CDMA carriers in North America. So you can almost guarantee that Sprint will be one of those carriers to get the device. We haven’t had an HTC world phone since the Touch Pro 2, so we are definitely due for one. Keep on the look out for more news to come on this.
By: Juan February 24th, 2011
How do you stay on top of the 4G wars being waged by cellphone providers these days? You make the service more reliable and increase it’s coverage. That is exactly what Sprint seems to be planning by the looks of a possible deal with LightSquared.
“Sprint said in December it would spend $4 billion to $5 billion on the three-to five-year project to combine the carrier’s disparate bands of spectrum onto a single type of base station. It has contracts with Alcatel-Lucent SA, Ericsson AB and Samsung Electronics Co. for the project.
By: Chico February 24th, 2011
Today Sprint made the announcement of their very first Windows 7 Phone. The HTC Arrive which was formally known as the HTC 7 Pro, will be released on March 20th for $199.99 with a two year contract after $100 MIR. The phone has the same 3.6 inch tilt screen as the Touch Pro 2 as well as a five row keyboard. The Arrive will boast a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, 5mp camera, 720p HD video recording capabilities, and 16GB of internal storage. You also get access to another 25GB of storage in the cloud. If you are a Windows fan you can start pre ordering the phone today by going into a Sprint store.
By: Juan February 23rd, 2011
We received a tip from an SU member telling us that he is:
“…seeing 4G WiMax in Knoxville, TN for the past few days. Looks like sprint is ramping up service here.”
Anyone out there in Knoxville who can verify this?
By: Juan February 22nd, 2011
A newly published JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) study shows that brain activity increases in the regions of the brain near the cellphone. This tells of the brain’s sensitivity to electromagnetic frequencies. Still unknown however, is whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. So yeah, now we know that the brain is excited but don’t know if this will cause disease or worse yet, cancer. Hopefully, this excitement makes us smarter as more of our brain is used.
People have wondered many things concerning this phenomenon for a few years now and we still do not have a definite answer for the question – will using my cellphone give me cancer? So, as an FYI, you may want to check out the study – be warned that you’ll need to be a subscriber OR you can click the link below for some additional info on this.
The Wall Street Journal Story on this topic.
By: Juan February 22nd, 2011
In a world where long distance communication is no longer confined to the mail or wired telephones, the government now seeks to find ways to wiretap the internet’s ability to link people through programs like Skype or Yahoo! Messenger.
“Federal law already requires tech companies to cooperate with court-ordered surveillance. The problem, says FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni, is that the companies offering services like Web-based e-mail or social networking sometimes can’t cooperate.
‘What we’re finding — and it’s not universally the case, across the board — but what we’re seeing is they do not have intercept solutions available for all of the types of services that they’re offering for people to use to communicate,’ she says.”
Source.
By: Juan February 21st, 2011
Check out the thread on the forums talking about Sprint’s latest Tweet…
Join the Conversation!
This is what Sprint Tweeted:
“What do you think the next new Sprint phone will be? Find out Thursday!#comebackfeb24“
By: Chico February 17th, 2011
So the rumors are true and the wait for the Samsung Epic to get Android 2.2 are finally over. This coming Monday February 21st OTA updates will begin hitting the Samsung Epic along with the Sanyo Zio. Enjoy!
