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News July 29, 2009

Sprint now losing customers slower – shed total of 7 million over last 2 years

Sprint’s just out with an earning’s report and other than news that losses are not growing – there aren’t many happy surprises. The quarter showed a loss of $384 million and a total revenue decrease that measured 10%. Total subscribers slipped another net 991,000 subscribers which puts the total subscriber loss over the last 7 [...]

WebOS 1.1 Revives iTunes Sync

For those with Palm Pre’s, you’ll remember that Apple recently released iTunes 8.2.1 that disabled the Pre’s abiltiy to sync with your iTunes library. This latest update appears to be a direct response to last week’s iTunes 8.2.1 Update. Apple Insider is reporting that Palm’s Blog announced the update yesterday. The update should appear as [...]

Ericsson will run Sprint’s network; Big Changes Afoot? Or Not

photo credit: The Consumerist Yesterday, Sprint announced that they would be entering into a seven year, 4.5 to 5 billion dollar agreement with Ericsson. This sounds like it will basically take all of the network management pressure off of Sprint, allowing them to focus on their customer service and product offerings. Some of the major [...]

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eBooks, News April 9, 2009

by Jason Reese

Is Barnes & Noble working with Sprint on a Kindle-killer?

TheStreet.com is reporting that Barnes & Noble may be partnering with Sprint on their own eBook reader to rival Amazon’s Kindle. Last month, Barnes & Noble purchased eBook seller FictionWise for a cool $15.7 million, which would fuel the notion that B&N is looking towards ramping up their own eBook store. The Kindle uses Whispernet [...]

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News February 26, 2009

by Wayne Schulz

Sprint allowing SMS whitelisting once again

Subscribers to Sprint again have the ability to create SMS allow lists. Using a maximium of 50 numbers you can create a set of numbers that are the only privileged ones that can get a text message through to you. Seems that Sprint had this feature a few years ago. Removed it. And it’s now [...]

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News January 26, 2009

by Wayne Schulz

Sprint announces elimination of 8,000 workers saving $1.2 Billion

Sprint’s just announced that they’ll be saying goodbye to 8,000 of their workers during the first quarter of 2009. This workforce reduction is partly because “Sprint has seen a notable reduction in calls per subscriber to customer care and increased customer satisfaction resulting from customer service improvements.” Of course I guess this reduction in customer [...]

Readylink possibly euthanized as remaining user notified to switch

So far I’ve only found one report of this but I can’t imagine why someone would lie about a service few people use. This person say’s they received a letter from Sprint regretting to inform them of the death of Readylink. You may remember that ReadyLink is was the walkie-talkie service Sprint developed back when [...]

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News January 22, 2009

by Wayne Schulz

Sprint site now live with Treo PRO by Palm

Those of you who don’t realize that an updated Palm Pre is due out “sometime soon” may want to jump on this Treo PRO for $249 (after 2 year / $200 rebate) from Sprint. This Windows Mobile 6.1 device sports a full QWERTY keyboard and 320 x 320 TFT screen. Activation requires an Everything plan, [...]

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News January 8, 2009

by Wayne Schulz

Palm Pre appears on Sprint site sans price and details

The unveiling of the new Palm Pre just ended at CES 2009. It was announced that Sprint will be the exclusive carrier for this new Palm device which is due before the first half of 2009. The Sprint site now has a page where you can leave your name to be notified when the Pre [...]

Unboxing the HTC Touch Pro (Sprint Edition)

[Note: This is a joint article being written by Doug, Lauren, and Sue. Doug's comments will appear in normal typeface, Lauren's in bold, and Sue's will be italicized. We are also simultaneously posting it on both JAMM and Gear Diary.] Doug: I had a nice surprise in the mail the other day when I tore [...]

The Sprint HTC Touch Diamond Review

You might remember that when I attended the Seattle Mobius in May, I was given the European version of the HTC Touch Diamond, which for network reasons I opted to have sent to Mitchell in Australia. The Diamond version he received and reviewed was at first glance nearly identical to the Sprint version I’ll be [...]

The Sprint Palm Treo 800w WM6 Phone Review

During the spring of 2007, when I was still a 700wx user and a Sprint customer, I was more excited by the rumors of a possible “Palm 800″ than I was about any other upcoming Windows Mobile device. Some of the reasons for my anticipation included that the Palm Treo candybar with front keyboard has [...]

First Look at the Sprint Palm Treo 800w

I had a telephone call scheduled with representatives from Palm earlier this week; leading up to it I was hoping that it would concern one of the worst-kept secrets in the Windows Mobile world: the Palm Treo 800w. Sure enough, the day of the call I received advance press materials letting me know that not [...]