Sprint’s got a new jewel in their helm, and they’ve got decent reasons to buff it: the Photon is what Android users seem to crave these days. It’s large, powerful, and, unlike its cousins, will work (securely) around the world.
“Your phone will be your wallet.” That’s what Google’s promising with Google Wallet and Google Offers, which’ll combine payments and deals in one neat package. And it’s a pretty compelling little vision of the future of paying for stuff.
I loathe giving time to adverts (especially when they’re not paying for it!) but sometimes, they’re just too bang-on not to show you. This Sprint ad for the Nexus S is one of those ads. [IntoMobile via Phandroid -Thanks, Richard!]
If and when an iPhone update arrives this year, it may do so with a small suffix and some new carrier friends. Mainly, you can expect an “iPhone 4S” in September, with support for Sprint and T-Mobile.
Bet you thought you were pretty slick there, using a tethering app to turn your Android phone into a mobile hotspot while sidestepping the additional carrier charges. What, you thought your carrier wouldn’t notice? Well, you’re not, they did, and now the free-mobile-hotspot party is over.
Here’s what Dan Hesse had to say about the pending AT&T-Mobile merger and the looming state of mobile communications when he sat down with CNBC’s Jim Cramer: “Well, I think what it, in essence, a lot – what a lot of people have said is, if you basically – if you approve this deal, AT&T-T-Mobile, in essence you’re approving the possibility of Sprint and Verizon. It’d be pretty hard not to do that one. And then that number of 79 per cent [of mobile market share]becomes 94 per cent in the hands of two.” [CNBC]
In response to whether Verizon would buy Sprint to keep up with AT&T&T-Mo, Verizon CEO Daniel Mead said: “We’re not interested in Sprint. We don’t need them.” [Reuters]
