Sprint announced it will add the new BlackBerry Curve 8530 smartphone to it’s lineup of devices (as well as Verizon Wireless). Customers can visit http://www.sprint.com/blackberrycurve8530 to pre-register for this next generation of the popular BlackBerry wireless device on America’s most dependable 3G network1 with the affordability of Sprint’s Everything Data plans featuring Any Mobile, AnytimeSM. Pricing and availability will be announced at a later date.
BlackBerry Curve 8530 smartphone makes it even easier to enjoy music on-the-go with dedicated keys to skip to the next song on a playlist, pause or play. It comes preloaded with several multimedia applications including BlackBerry Media Sync, Sprint Music Store, Sprint TV and Pandora. It also boasts dedicated applications for a smoothly integrated social networking experience with Facebook, MySpace and Flickr. BlackBerry Curve 8530 will be available in three color options – Black, Royal Purple and Red.
Sprint’s BlackBerry Curve 8530 will offer BlackBerry App World for instant access to thousands of applications. Sprint has employed an open Internet approach, and the Sprint Application Developer Program has been providing tools for third-party developers, since Sprint first launched the Wireless Web on its phones in 2001.
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Sprint has launched the SANYO SCP-3810 offering the essential features consumers rely on to stay connected. SCP-3810 is polished with a luxurious mirrored finish in trendy Regal Red or Black Onyx, with a translucent OLED display glowing through, to subtly show the time or caller ID. It boasts a 1.3 megapixel camera and a large, easy-to-use keypad and a large, 2.4-inch QVGA screen with a convenient large-font option for better legibility. Operating on Sprint’s 1xRTT network, SCP-3810 offers instant access to the Web, email and text messaging. BASIC SPECIFICATIONS - Two color options: Regal Red and Black Onyx
- Dimensions: 3.8 inch x 2.0 inch x 0.7 inch; Weight: 4 ounces
- Main Display: 1.45 inch x 1.93 inch, 65K color TFT LCD (240x320)
- Standard battery: Removable lithium ion (Li-ion) battery provides up to 5.8 hours of continuous talk time
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Sprint Nextel and Clearwire today announced the launch and availability of their 4G WiMax wireless broadband service in several markets. They two largest markets are Chicago, Illinois, and Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas. Sprint also announced that several markets are now live which in North Carolina, which includes Cary, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, High Point, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem. Residents will be able to purchase laptop dongles that enables them to access the WiMax network and Sprint's EVDO 3G network in areas where WiMax isn't available.
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Sprint today unveiled Dell Inspiron Mini 10, the first netbook available from Sprint on America’s most dependable 3G network. This companion PC offers blazing-fast Internet access in a convenient, affordable and portable package that can easily fit in a purse, backpack or briefcase. It is now available at select Sprint Stores throughout the Twin Cities for just $199.99 with activation on a Sprint Mobile Broadband plan and a two-year service agreement, after a $100 mail-in rebate.
Dell Inspiron Mini 10 features embedded EV-DO Rev. A wireless service from Sprint that supports faster data rates and higher system capacity, enabling customers to send and receive large amounts of data at broadband speeds comparable to DSL. These faster speeds enable customers to take advantage of robust applications and services, such as wireless voice-over-IP (VoIP), high-speed video telephony, music on-demand and video messaging.
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Sprint today announced the launch of Sprint 4G mobile broadband throughout the Philadelphia area. As a result, streaming video, fast file downloads and uploads and turbo-charged web browsing are no longer just home, office or coffee shop benefits. Sprint 4G customers can enjoy a blazing fast wireless mobile broadband experience across the city, whether they’re working at a remote location, relaxing in the park, sitting at a favorite eatery or as a passenger on the freeway or public transportation – all for just a $10 per month premium over current Sprint 3G mobile data plans.
Philadelphia is one of the first cities to enjoy 4G wireless connections from Sprint, the first national wireless carrier to test, launch and market 4G technology. Sprint 4G delivers download speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G.1 Sprint 4G is like a hotspot designed to reach across Philadelphia. View 4G coverage at www.sprint.com/4G.
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Sprint today announced Nov. 15 as the first day of nationwide availability for Palm Pixi (announced September 9), exclusively available on America’s most dependable 3G network from Sprint. It will cost just $99.99 with a two-year service agreement, after a $50 instant rebate and $100 mail-in rebate and be available at Sprint stores, online, through telesales at 1-800-SPRINT, and at Best Buy, RadioShack and select Wal-Mart stores. (Palm Pixi fact sheet pdf). Running the Palm webOS mobile platform, Palm Pixi lets the user keep multiple activities open and move easily between them, like flipping through a deck of cards, using natural gestures. This allows for easy movement between messaging and email or searching the Web while listening to music, and items are rearranged simply by dragging them. Universal search also makes finding things easy, providing results from both the device and the Web.
Palm webOS brings together the user’s most important information from their phone, at work or on the Web into one logical view. In addition to linking information from Google, Facebook, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and LinkedIn, Palm Pixi adds Yahoo! integration to Palm Synergy3. Palm Synergy offers: | 
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Clearwire Communications, Comcast and Sprint today announced plans to launch their respective 4G mobile Internet services in additional cities in the fourth quarter of 2009. Each of the companies will offer 4G under their own 4G brand.
Clearwire, Comcast and Sprint will each launch commercial 4G service in Philadelphia in the next several weeks with official launch events and retail store openings to follow. In November, Clearwire, Comcast and Sprint will begin sales in Chicago. All three providers will begin selling in Seattle/Tacoma area in early December. Consumers and businesses should expect to see additional network expansions throughout these cities, and a wide-range of independent marketing and advertising initiatives.
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Boost Mobile (a division of Sprint) today announced that calling and texting to Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands is now included in the Boost Mobile $50 Monthly Unlimited and UNLTD By Boost plans.
UNLTD By Boost is the regional wireless service plan operating on Sprint’s CDMA network that includes nationwide talk, text and Web for $50 a month plus applicable taxes and fees. The UNLTD offer is in the following 13 states: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. |
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Sprint Nextel Corp. today announced it will acquire iPCS for approximately $831 million, including the assumption of $405 million of net debt. This transaction value represents 6.4x projected 2010 Adjusted Earnings Before Income, Taxes, and Depreciation. Sprint expects to achieve approximately $30 million of synergies annually in the transaction and expects the transaction to be free cash flow accretive to Sprint in 2010.
Under the terms of the agreement, Sprint Nextel will commence a cash tender offer to acquire all of iPCS’ outstanding common shares for $24.00 per share. This price per share represents a 34 percent premium to iPCS’ closing stock price as of October 16, 2009. The agreement also requires a minimum of a majority of the shares outstanding (on a fully-diluted basis) to be tendered in the offer.
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Sprint today announced availability of the first slider phone offering push-to-talk service, Motorola Debut i856 (also available at Boost Mobile). The handset combines Nextel Direct Connect, best-in-class push-to-talk services, with a stylish multimedia device for both business and consumer applications.
Motorola Debut’s compact slider form factor offers a smooth gliding action for easy one-handed operation, keeps the keypad secure when not in use and offers easy access when needed for instant communication between two people or a group of people, next door or in the next state. It is also the first device to offer the upgraded ability to switch from an active push-to-talk call to an interconnect voice call at the touch of a button.
Motorola Debut can be purchased with Nextel Direct Connect calling plans in all Sprint sales channels, including Sprint retail stores, Business Direct Sales, Telesales (1-800-Nextel-9) and Web sales for just $99.99 with a two-year service agreement and $50 mail-in rebate (excluding taxes). |
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Sprint today announced the upcoming availability of Samsung Moment, Samsung’s first U.S. handset integrating the open and innovative Android platform with the high-speed connectivity of America’s most dependable 3G network2 (EVDO Rev. A.) and the best value in wireless with the Any Mobile, AnytimeSM calling feature. Samsung Moment offers simple device navigation through an optical joystick located just below the expansive display. It features Wi-Fi capability, integrated GPS navigation and accelerometer. Additional features include:
- 3.2-megapixel camera with flash and camcorder with auto-focus
- Stereo Bluetooth 2.0 wireless technology
- Expandable memory up to 32GB
- Sprint TV with live and on-demand programming
- NFL Mobile Live and NASCAR Sprint Cup MobileSM
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The Sprint Open Developer Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., Oct. 26-28, will deliver valuable insights and support from a strong cross-section of leading mobile platforms, from Android and Palm webOS to Java ME, RIM and Windows Mobile, and provide hands-on coding sessions, breakout sessions, event sponsor exhibits and networking opportunities for developers. The conference will address enterprise M2M business solutions, approaches to make developers more profitable, 4G technical/development resources and more.
Steve Elfman, president of Network Operations and Wholesale for Sprint, Jason Mackenzie, vice president of HTC America, and Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, directors of Developer Relations for Palm, will be leading keynote addresses during the conference. Their keynotes will focus on the relevance of Sprint's truly open initiatives and what that means for developers. In addition, Android team members and technical subject matter experts from Google will lead developers in an in-depth technical discussion.
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Yesterday (Sunday, Sept. 27) Sprint launched a unique form of video entertainment designed to encourage wireless users to belt it out, sing a goodbye song to their current wireless carrier, and choose Sprint instead. In a sign that the times they are a changin’, Sprint is offering Any Mobile, Anytime – a new feature of Sprint Everything Data plans that offers customers unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling from the Sprint Network to ANY wireless phone on any U.S. wireless carrier network at any time.
Sprint’s call to action behind the new spots is simple: go to www.mobilegoodbye.com, choose a preferred tune (based on your current wireless carrier), then watch as a hip crooner bursts into a breakup song aimed at the restrictive calling circles of T-Mobile, AT&T or Verizon Wireless. | |
Sprint today announced the upcoming availability of Samsung Instinct HD, the latest follow-up to the award-winning Samsung Instinct, which made its debut last summer exclusively from Sprint.
Samsung Instinct HD boasts an attractive and intuitive user interface as well as the high-speed connectivity of America’s most dependable 3G network3 (EVDO Rev. A).With Samsung and Sprint’s first high-definition 5-megapixel camera and camcorder and TV-out HD connection, it allows photo and video playback on an HD capable auxiliary device but it does not provide HD playback directly on the handset.
Samsung Instinct HD further improves on the original with an enhanced Web browsing experience, including a full Opera Mobile 9.7 browser, WiFi capabilities, an Ambient Light Sensor and Accelerometer. It also features a Proximity Sensor with haptic feedback that gives users a gentle vibration as they experience the virtual QWERTY keyboard. Beginning Sept. 27, customers will be able to purchase Samsung Instinct HD at Best Buy Mobile, Sprint’s exclusive national retail partner. It will then be available Oct. 11 in all Sprint company-owned retail channels, including Web and telesales for $249.99 with a new two-year service agreement after a $100 mail-in rebate (taxes and service charges excluded). | 
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For years, schools have mandated policies barring cellphones from the classroom in hopes of avoiding disruptions to a student's learning environment. Today, one school district in Michigan believes cellphones deserve a spot in the classroom. The Inkster Public School District is working with Sprint and GoKnow Learning, Inc., a University of Michigan spinoff that focuses on helping K-12 adopt mobile learning, to transform the device once considered a nuisance into a powerful learning tool.
During the 2009 summer school session, Inkster enlisted Sprint for a trial in which Sprint handsets loaded with the GoKnow software were integrated into the classroom to enhance the learning environment. The trial delivered results above and beyond the expectations of Inkster Public School District. Data showed that students in the district were performing below state standards in English Language Arts (ELA) and math. However, after this trial students involved increased their achievement scores on average by 25 percent.
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Sprint announced today several additions to its Application Developer Web site designed to give developers the tools needed to create innovative applications for Android-powered devices. The updated site will include:
- Implementation information for Sprint's Android-powered devices.
- Sprint network and product services (location-based services, messaging, Geofence and more) available through the Sprint Developer Sandbox.
Developers utilizing the site and tools will easily be able to create and test applications for the Android platform on the Sprint network. The enhanced Web site will include information about Sprint's Android-powered devices and will feature compelling applications that are available in Android Market. |
Sprint has launched the Samsung M330. The vertical slider offers a stylish and affordable way to keep in touch with friends and family with threaded text messaging and T9 word completion, allowing an internal dictionary that predicts as you type, making it easier and faster to send messages.
The Samsung M330 is equipped with:
- English and Spanish menus
- VGA camera
- Sprint PCS Picture Mail
- Speakerphone
- Bluetooth
- Picture Caller ID
- Wireless backup
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Sprint Business Advantage pricing plans, available now, pack more value, flexibility and simplicity than any other similar pricing plans for business. They feature the flexibility businesses need for today’s mobile work force and to help them cut the cord.
Customers can mix and match plans that include voice only, voice and messaging, or voice, messaging and data. The Business Advantage Messaging and Data plan also includes the new Any Mobile, AnytimeSM voice feature, which allows customers on the plan to get unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling from the Sprint network to ANY wireless phone on any U.S. wireless carrier network at any time. This means unlimited everything -- unlimited messaging, data and voice -- to any of the more than 250 million wireless customers in the U.S. at any time. |
iPCS, Inc., today announced that on September 10, 2009, a complaint was filed against Sprint Nextel Corp. by three of its subsidiaries - iPCS Wireless, Horizon Personal Communications, Inc. and Bright Personal Communications Services, LLC (collectively, “the iPCS Affiliates”). The Complaint was filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. The iPCS Affiliates assert among other things, that:
- Sprint Nextel’s consummation of the recently announced transaction with Virgin Mobile USA, Inc. (“Virgin Mobile”), and its plan to compete against the iPCS Affiliates in their exclusive territories, will breach the iPCS Affiliates’ Management Agreements with Sprint (“Agreements”), under which Sprint or its Related Parties cannot compete against iPCS Affiliates in their exclusive service areas.
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