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Phones
Sprint Intros BlackBerry Curve 8350i Push-to-Talk for Nextel (Why?)
12:30PM Wilson Rothman | Sprint today unveiled the BlackBerry Curve 8350i Push-to-Talk for its cute little Nextel customers. Our wild guess is that this is a limited run, aimed at the last four people on earth who somehow need a real business smartphone but still use Nextel. [Sprint] More »
Press
Judge Rules Early Termination Fees Are Illegal and Violate California Law
7:00AM Jason Chen | A California Supreme Court judge has just ruled that early termination fees from mobile phone companies violates California state law and are illegal. What’s this mean to you? Sprint Nextel has been ordered to pay US$18.2 million in reimbursements to customers who already paid their ETF, and to stop trying to collect US$54.7 million from customers who cancelled and refused to pay. But if ETF fees are illegal, does that mean 2-year contracts—which in turn give you subsidised price on your mobile phones—will be a thing of the past? Tough to say, but we’re headed towards some change. [Mercury News via Yahoo] More »
Networks
Sprint Airave Cell-Over-Wi-Fi Box Goes On Sale Nationwide
3:13AM John Mahoney | Sprint and Samsung’s femtocell answer to T-Mo’s Hotspot@Home is now available everywhere after localised tests in Indy and Denver apparently went well enough to push it nationwide. The box connects to your router, allowing you to make calls over the web with any Sprint CDMA phone. It’s US$100 for the box, plus US$15 per month for unlimited Wi-Fi calls for one line, or US$25 per month for a family plan, which is pricier than T-Mo’s Hotspot. But if your house is in a Sprint dark spot (and you haven’t switched providers, for some reason), this is for you. [Sprint] More »
Networks
Sprint Wants to Dump Nextel
7:15AM Matt Buchanan | Fresh off, uh, fresh rumours that T-Mobile’s making eyes at Sprint, the WSJ is reporting that Sprint is “seriously considering spinning off or selling its ailing Nextel unit.” The Sprint/Nextel hybrid has basically been the poster child for train wrecks masquerading as mergers, with Nextel being much (but not all) of the heavy weight slowly sinking the USS Sprint. Here’s three reasons Sprint should throw Nextel overboard and what it would mean for you. More »
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Apparently things aren’t so dandy over in …
4:51AM Matt Buchanan | Apparently things aren’t so dandy over in Sprint-Nextel land, since they’re shopping around for a new CEO to turn around the sinking profit train they’re currently riding express on. [NYT] More »
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Motorola Shows Off Cheap Sexy Still-Unannounced i335 for Nextel
12:45PM jenneth | The i335 is a thin candybar with a rubber keypad that feels like leather and a funky corrugated plastic back. It’s been rumored here and there, and should not be confused with an older Moto with the same name. Regardless, Motorola and its partner in iDEN crime Sprint (as in Nextel) have yet to say anything more than that it’ll be out for holidays and it will be “affordable.” Yeah, it’s missing a camera, a big LCD and any kind of bandwidth. But it’s better looking than the other Nextel phones, and its price, still unannounced, is supposedly rock bottom. galleryPost('Motoi335', 4, 'Moto i335'); More »
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