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Jan

16

2012

Recent “Security Update” For HTC EVO 3D Removes Carrier IQ

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by Roy Alugbue
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It looks like there’s more to the “security update” feature of the the recent HTC EVO 3D update than we previously thought. There is no longer Carrier IQ according to reports from users. Owners of the device who recently received the update confirmed this by checking in the Manage Applications tab have noticed that “HTC [...]

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Jan

13

2012

Boost Mobile Announces LG Marquee Smartphone For $280

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by Roy Alugbue
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Boost Mobile continues to build up its modest lineup of decent Android phones. It recently introduced the LG Marquee phone– yes the same Marquee found on Sprint’s NOW Network. The device has some solid specs that won’t break the bank too. Inside the phone, you’ll find: 1GHz single-core processor 512MB of RAM 4-inch NOVA display Gingerbread 2.3 [...]

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Jan

12

2012

Sprint Says OTA Update Out Today for HTC EVO 3D

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by Jack Holt
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A minor update is rolling out today for the HTC EVO 3D. According to Sprint, the update will bring the version to 2.17.651.5 and it address the following. Updated Peep client (to align with Twitter) Battery life improvements Security update If you haven’t received the update yet, you can manually check to see if it’s [...]

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Jan

11

2012

Hands-On With Sprint Version Of Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Video)

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by Roy Alugbue
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Over at the Sprint event held at Tao in the Venetian last night, our own Rob Nazarian had some one-on-one time with the newly announced Samsung Galaxy Nexus for Sprint. As perhaps highest-profile member of Sprint’s LTE family, it has the same awesome features that we’ve already seen on the Verizon version— just on the [...]

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Jan

11

2012

Eco Friendly Sprint LG Viper Unveiled At CES, We Get Hands-On [Video]

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by Axl Logan
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Sprint threw one rocking party last night at the Venetian Hotel to introduce a few new tidbits to their lineup to accompany their roll-out of LTE in mid 2012.  Sprint managed to team up with LG on this one to offer the masses the LG Viper, an Eco friendly LTE device with a 4-inch Nova display made [...]

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Jan

10

2012

Sprint Confirms Its Version Of The Galaxy Nexus Will Carry 32GB Of Storage

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by Roy Alugbue
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We officially have confirmation for the storage space for Sprint’s version of the Galaxy Nexus. We previously believed it would have 16GB of storage, compared to 32GB for the Verizon model— but that of course, was an assumption was based off speculation. Sprint has come out and confirmed it will indeed have the 32GB model, meaning prospective [...]

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Jan

9

2012

Sprint Officially Gets the Samsung Galaxy Nexus *Unofficially*

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by Jack Holt
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  As Sprint announced a few days back they will be bringing their 4G LTE network to a select few cities the first half of this year and also possibly hinted at their very own Galaxy Nexus. Well along with that announcement comes the official splash page of the first device capable of running on [...]

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Jan

7

2012

No, Sprint Wont Throttle Your data — Unless You’re Roaming

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by Stacy Bruce
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Some of you may have heard that Dow Jones Newswire recently claimed that Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said that they throttle the top 1% of data users sending the interwebs into a huge ranting session. Why would Hesse admit to data throttling when they claim to offer unlimited data to its customers? Well, it seems that Dow [...]

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Jan

5

2012

Sprint’s first LTE device could be the Galaxy Nexus with a 1.5GHz processor

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by Robert Nazarian
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You have to love when ads leak. This one is from Sprint and it shows off the Galaxy Nexus as their first 4G LTE phone. It showed up on the CNET website shortly after Dan Hesse tweeted that Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio would be the first LTE markets for Sprint by mid-year. There’s [...]

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Jan

3

2012

Samsung Galaxy Note Heading To Sprint?

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by Axl Logan
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The Samsung Galaxy Note has been a bit of a buzz lately in the mobile market and as AT&T is all set to score the device in the US, it looks like Sprint may be sticking their hand in mobile cookie jar too.  The folks over at SprintFeed state they have a proven source that claims the [...]

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