[Update] Evo 4G suffering from flaky WiFi reception issues…

[Update] Evo 4G suffering from flaky WiFi reception issues…

There’s plenty to love about Sprint’s new HTC EVO 4G. With so much advanced hardware packed under the hood and not forgetting that gorgeous screen, it’s hard to think anyone could find fault with the EVO 4G. However, there is one issue that is starting to gain quite a vocal following regarding the EVO’s apparent lack of WiFi reception. Just in one forum on Android Central alone, you can read through hundreds of upset users, upset that the EVO...

Sprint’s customer blood letting slowed to a small trickle.

Sprint’s customer blood letting slowed to a small trickle.

Sprint hasn’t been having the best of times the last several…years, but that isn’t stopping the company from putting out the occasionally optimistic and charismatic commercial telling us that everything is just fine and dandy. Well, it isn’t just fine and dandy as they’re still losing customers — albeit at a much slower pace. During the last 3 months of 2009, a total of 148,000 Sprint customers decided to defect and take their business...

Verizon sends rebadged Alltel employees packin’

Verizon sends rebadged Alltel employees packin’

Today is probably not the best day to find out you owe $2,500 in back taxes, receive a letter notifying you of your late rent payment, or even going out to spend money on a beer if you find yourself a new ex-Alltel/Verizon acquired employee. Though crying in your beer may be the only thing that makes you feel better. I must stress however that crying in good beer is a travesty — meaning a lesser beer is a more desirable tear collector. What constitutes a good beer?...

T-Mobile USA Q3 results in. Red ink needed.

T-Mobile USA Q3 results in.  Red ink needed.

With T-Mobile’s strong Android showing, coupled with Android’s rapidly growing popularity would lean one to suspect that they were set for another bangin’ quarter. That isn’t quite the case. Q3 results are out and the numbers aren’t too pretty with T-Mo dipping into the red ink for the first time in several quarters, coming up with a subscriber net loss of 77,000 subscribers (140,000 total). A far cry from the 325,000 subscriber increase in...