Sprint Nextel has raised as of October 1st, 2006 the amount it charges users to send an outgoing SMS message. The original rate was 10 cents per message which was increased by 50% to 15 cents. This is a significant percentage wise increase where other carriers charge around 10 cents per message.
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In an effort to compete with Disney Mobile, Sprint Nextel updated its Sprint Family Locater service to improve its offerings. The competition race is always good for the customers.
The uprated service offers kids tracking capability from a mobile device or a web site. The service uses GPS (Global Positioning System) embedded inside of [...]
An agreement was reached between Sprint and Major League Baseball to deliver a live radio broadcast of every major league game to Sprint’s wireless customers.
The non-exclusive deal allows other mobile providers (Mobile ESPN and Verizon Wireless) to offer some MLB themed content. For now, Sprint is the only wireless carrier to offer the live [...]
Len Lauer, Sprint COO, announced today during the company’s conference call that Sprint will start selling Motorola’s popular Razr family phones during the companies third quarter this year.
The decision perhaps is a result of comments made by some analysts about relationship between Sprint’s disappointing quarterly growth and not selling phones from the popular Razr family.
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Sprint Nextel released the results of a study performed to identify women’s habits in wireless usage. The data is also being used to power a ‘phone finder’ called Women in a Wireless World.
Interesting findings from the survey include:
37% of women want their phone within a reach 24 hours a day
Splash of color in the [...]
The Sanyo Katana, a high-profile handset scheduled to launch on July 10th, 2006.
Sanyo Katana features:
Dimensions: 3.9†x 2.0†x 0.6†Weight: 3.5 ounces
Bluetooth (DUN supported)
QVGA display with 65K colors
Speakerphone
VGA camera
Wireless backup
The phone comes in one of the four differeent colors: Mystic Black, Blue Sapphire, Cherry Blossom Pink and Polar White.
The sales will begin by July [...]
The phone was introduced to help perents stay connected and to control the usage of the wireless phone.
Incoming and outgoing phones can be controlled by entering allowed phone numbers into the address book and clicking the perental control button.
Other features of the Sanyo SCP-2400 include:
1.1″×1.4″ 65K color STN display
Ready Link push-to-talk
Voice dialing
Speakerphone
The phone comes in [...]
Sprint Nextel, six months after the deal was first announced, completed the acquisition of Nextel Partners. Sprint Nextel orignally owned about 31 perscent of Nextel Partners common stock. After the deal is completed, Sprint Nextel will reach out to 54 million addtional people in mid-size and rural areas of 31 states.
Sprint Nextel has updated its business website to reflect the PPC-6700, a very high-end handset that we’ve been calling the HTC Apache.
The PPC-6700 has many high end features:
Windows Mobile 5.0
416MHz Intel CPU
EV-DO, WiFi and Bluetooth
QWERTY keyboard
miniSD card slot
1.3 megapixel camera
Mobile version of GoToMyPC to access your desktop computer
The PPC-6700 will be available through Sprint business [...]
Sprint Nextel launched the Samsung SPH-A560, an entry-level clamshell phone.
The new phone feature set covers all the basics:
32 chord polyphonic ringtones
speakerphone capability
SMS text messaging is provided
128×160 pixel STN LCD with 65K colors
Size: 90mm x 47mm x 25mm
Sprint is charging $9.99 for the A560 with 2 year service activation.
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