Well all knew it was coming: The day in which Sprint would formally announce that they had abandoned WiMAX hardware. Welcome. Today is that day. At a conference held earlier today, Bob Azzi, Sprint’s Senior Vice President of Networks stated that the carrier “will not release any more WiMAX enabled devices moving forward”. Sprint’s 1900 MHz spectrum is now being prepped for the carrier’s ongoing switch to LTE, and the carrier is also in the...
NetZero is charging ahead with a bullish plan to turn the wireless broadband industry on its head thanks to a new Clearwire partnership, affordable hardware, and 4G plans starting at…$0/month. The best part: NetZero’s new 4G gig is contract free. The two hardware options available at launch include a $49 4G USB modem and $99 NetZero 4G hotspot. As hardware sans contract, it’s already a deal data plan pricing withstanding. But when you factor in said data...
We love it when big tech companies screw up and release software/hardware early. Today’s tech gaff leaving many Android users very happy is brought to us compliments of Sprint. It seems someone had a small case of itchy clicky fingers and posted the Nexus S 4G’s upcoming Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ROM online. Sadly, it was quickly removed, though not before an eagle-eyed XDA member snagged it and subsequently re-shared it with the rest of the internet. While...
Sprint doesn’t have any time to lick their wounds on WiMAX’s loss to LTE. They’re already dangerously close to being brushed under the rug of irrelevance. But they aren’t giving up. Today during Press Day just before the official start of CES 2012, Sprint unveiled three new LTE products that will (hopefully) help the nation’s third largest carrier once again climb into the main mobile arena. The Viper 4G is an Android 2.3 Gingerbread device that...
The moment digital wallet junkies have been waiting for — a compatible piece of hardware to make use of Google Wallet. Sprint and Samsung just released the “GWK74″ update for the Nexus S 4G that enables the built-in NFC chip’s Google Wallet functionality. As of writing this is the only hardware device gaining Google Wallet support. That should soon change, however, given the packed schedule for NFC-packing devices coming either later this year and...
