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Palm Pre: 8GB on board; 3mp camera

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

The specs are officially up for the Palm Pre. Sprint went live with the details today according to MobileCrunch.

I popped over to the Sprint.com site and had a look.

I’m a customer, dontcha know? ;-)

Not a very good one, because I’m sat in the UK at the moment — but Sprint, controversially, is my network of choice whilst I’m in San Francisco. Despite the utterly shite reputation that the company seems to enjoy from the locals, I actually found the service pretty good.

Although I don’t generally like CDMA.

Anyway.

Frontpage of Sprint.com… here’s what it says:

Nice.

Click in and you get this:

Yup.

I bet Alfie from Moblog is wetting himself by now. He’s been sending love notes to the Palm Pre on his twitter for weeks.

You can read the tech specs online — there’s a little ‘tech specs’ link.

And of course it’s all flash. So I can’t link you direct. Tsch. Marketing people, eh?

The key specs for me were the on-device memory and the camera. Both OK.

I’m not blown away.

But I’ll be really interested to see just how the webOS actually functions in the hand.

The rest of the specs look pretty nifty. Nice screen, Microsoft Direct Push/Sync. It DOES do MMS. 3 megapixel camera has an LED flash. 3.5mm headphone jack. Good man!

MPEG-4 H.263 video; MP3 and whatnot. WiFi b/g.

Cool.

Cool.

Let’s see how they perform.

The direct Sprint link is here.

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Palm Pre Rumored to be Exclusively Heading to Best Buy

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

You know it’s a popular phone when barely days after its announcement, rumors start springing up about its release. 

A “credible source” tells WebOS Arena, that Best Buy would be hosting a 60 days exclusive deal for retailing the Palm Pre. The Pre, which will be launched on Sprint’s network in the US would be the second phone to be available exclusively at Best Buy, following the Samsung Instinct which was touted to be highly anticipated and better than the iPhone.

Of course, as it is with the tons of rumors floating out there, there’s a huge cloud of uncertainty surrounding this one too.

[Via PhoneArena]

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My Sprint Samsung ACE works on Vodafone UK

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

I can’t tell you how pleased I am that my newest handset purchase — the Samsung ACE from Sprint — works perfectly fine on Vodafone UK. It’s a CDMA/GSM handset — which is why I bought it — only to find out that I didn’t have the right account settings in order to use it abroad.

Phew.

It was looking like a totally wasted purchase. But they haven’t locked it, it seems.

That’ll do nicely.

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Sprint is the first US carrier to launch Blue Mobile

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Blue Systems’ Blue Mobile real-time mobile (Blackberry/WinMob) financial information service will shortly be available to Sprint customers. Right on! What a deal for Blue Systems!

Here’s the announcement:

Blue Systems, a London-based provider of global financial information software, today announced that it has entered an agreement with Sprint, one of North America’s premier mobile carriers, to offer its real-time financial market data application, blue mobile™, to Sprint’s customers.

blue mobile™ provides professional and retail investors with the fastest, smartest way to analyze global stock market information in their offices, at home, or on the move, 24/7. The application runs on the latest Web-enabled phones and requires a data tariff. Sprint, with its high speed network, is perfectly positioned to offer blue mobile™ to its customers and is the first US mobile operator to certify the application.

Congratulations to Sulim and all at Blue Systems. Next stop, the world!

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Sprint ready to offload Nextel’s iDen

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

According to Reuters, the latest twist in the saga that is Sprint is set to get rid of the iDen network it picked up when it acquired Nextel a few years ago.

Sprint has really been struggling all round for some time and a sale of a network that was superceded in both technology and popularity terms a while back makes a lot of sense – the only question is who would buy it? The same reasons that Sprint would want to get rid of the iDen network are reasons why it would be hard to find a potential buyer.

In a recent filing, Sprint said it wants will consider “”improving operations, making additional investments, entering into strategic partnerships and considering potential divestitures” when it comes to iDen. I suspect Sprint would rather favour the latter two options.

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Sprint’s WiMax now ready for lift-off

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Could this really be the green light we’ve been waiting for? It looks like, after all the delays and to-ing and fro-ing with partner Clearwire, Sprint’s WiMax network is finally ready for take-off.

Sprint said that it’s now finished commercial testing of its Xohm network, alongside buddy Samsung, and the WiMax network is now meeting all the necessary criteria on “overall performance, handoff performance and handoff delay” after trials in Washington DC and Baltimore, as well as in Sprint’s labs. The two cities will be the first to get to try the service commercially later this year, according to the operator.

It’s now starting to look like Sprint really is going to bring a WiMax network to the US (it was looking shaky there for a while, especially after the departure of former CEO Gary Forsee) but the fuzziness around the timing of the launch – “later this year” – still hints that there could be some quirks to be ironed out yet.

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Clearwire, Sprint give birth to new WiMax venture

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

It looks like there’s life in US WiMax yet. US providers Clearwire and SprintNextel have agreed to combine their WiMax networks into a new company, under the Clearwire brand.

They’ve got some powerful friends on board too: Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks have agreed to finance the new company to the tune of $3.2 billion. Sprint will remain the biggest shareholder in the company with 51 percent.

After all the trouble with its Xohm WiMax network Sprint has been having lately, a lot of people had predicted a swift death for the technology. Not so. It seems Google and Intel, both of whom have a lot of clout and a vested interested in seeing the technology succeed, are determined to keep the network going. Hopefully this is the shot in the arm mobile WiMax needs.

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Deutsche Telekom to buy Sprint?

Monday, May 5th, 2008

According to German paper Der Spiegel, Deutsche Telekom is considering going shopping and acquiring US carrier Sprint Nextel, with a view to merging it with its own T-Mobile USA.

It’s a fascinating rumour but I’m not entirely convinced that this isn’t just an idle ‘what if?’ scenario from some Deutsche Telekom exec. Granted, for anyone considering an acquisition of Sprint, it’s a great time – the company’s been struggling of late, its share price is down and it could be snapped up for a bit of a bargain price. It would mean a big step up for T-Mobile in the US, catapulting it into the top tier of operators.

But the major reason to say no to such a deal? The tech. T-Mobile uses GSM, while Sprint Nextel uses CDMA and is trying to get a WiMax network up and running at the same time. The integration problems don’t put any acquisition in a favourable light.

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