Verizon Whines About Sprint's "Most Dependable" Claims

Apparently Verizon has gotten cocky after its court victory over AT&T and decided it wants an encore. This time the wireless provider is playing the bully as it demands that Sprint cease claiming that it's "America's most dependable 3G network." More »

Amazon's Kindle 2 Gets 85 Percent Battery Boost, Native PDF Reading

Amazon claims that all it took was a six month firmware improvement test to get the Kindle 2 to run for 85 percent longer than before, which is a pretty damn impressive feat of engineering. More »

Sprint's HTC Hero Takes Inevitable Price Dip to $100

After the HTC Droid Eris, a rebadged Hero, debuted on Verizon for $100, Sprint's Hero couldn't well sit at $180 and expect to sell—and now Best Buy has stepped up, selling the Hero at $100 with contract. [Engadget]

Why U.S. Wireless Pricing Sucks

The New York Times ran a story today that helps explain why the American cellular industry is so screwy. In short: It's our fault. More »

webOS 1.3.1 Available Now

Nothing game changing, just bug fixes and small tweaks. Don't expect one of Palm's infamous syncing hacks, because iTunes support is nowhere to be found. Fire up your updaters, 1.3.1 is live now. [BGR, GadgetsOnTheGo, thanks Jimmie!]

Sprint's Still Bleeding, But Not As Badly

It's been crazy watching Sprint overhaul itself over the last year, going from a wasteland of phones to probably the number two carrier for hardware, so I feel kinda bad that they still bled out over 800,000 postpaid customers this past quarter. (Postpaid are the customers carriers actually want, vs. people who prepay for chunks of minutes.) More »

T-Mobile Project Dark Pricing Plans Go Live Today

According to documents procured by the folks at Fone Frenzy, T-Mobile's incredibly appealing Project Dark pricing plans begin today. Long story short, those leaked plans we brought you earlier this week are completely, totally true. Also, Catherine Zeta-Jones: Updated. More »

Clearwire, Comcast, and Sprint To Roll Out 4G In Select Markets Starting Next Month

If you weren't among the lucky ones in a market with 4G being offered already, there's good news. Clearwire, Comcast, and Sprint will begin 4G sales in the Philadelphia area over the next few weeks with Chicago and Tacoma following in November. There'll be no Comcast for Charlotte, Greensboro and Raleigh, North Carolina; Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth and San Antonio, Texas folks, but they'll be able to purchase 4G service from Sprint and Clearwire around the same time with Honolulu and Maui, Hawaii following in early December. Your city still isn't listed? Yeah, mine either. [Clearwire]

Sprint to Buy iPCS and Settle Lawsuits For $831m

Did Sprint have a choice in buying iPCS for $831 million? Not if it wanted to continue operating iDEN in parts of Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Nebraska, where iPCS had an exclusive, according to Fierce Wireless. [fierce wireless]

Heads up: Sprint's HTC Hero Now Available to All

The CDMA Hero is now available to everyone, after first dibs went to Best Buy's Reward Zone (and those willing to deal with Sprint's telesales). Arguably the best U.S Android phone, it's $180 (after rebate; with 2-year contract). More »

You Always Wanted a Cell Tower in Your Backyard, Right?

While disappointing carriers by reiterating the FCC is all about net neutrality, chairman Julius Genachowski also offered them some consolation: To get more 4G goodness in the air, the FCC's going to a "shot clock" style rollout for cell towers. More »

Samsung Moment Hands-On

I just got some time with Samsung's Android handset for Sprint, the Moment, and it looks promising, but barely differentiates itself from the Android crowd. More »

Windows Mobile 6.5 Comes to Sprint With Samsung's Intrepid

Though we pronounced Windows Mobile 6.5 anything but intrepid, Samsung is bringing a WinMo 6.5 phone by that name to Sprint. It should be available October 11th, and looks pretty much like Sammy's old BlackJack line. More »

Best Buy Employee Holiday Guide Pseudo-Reveals BlackBerry, Nokia, Android Launches

Today's Best Buy leak takes the form of a who's who of holiday hardware releases for the retailer's mobile department: More »

Why Verizon's Probably Still Getting the Pre

A report from TheStreet is getting everyone all worked up, and rightly so: Dropping the Pre would be an idiotic move for Verizon, and a lame turn for their customers. But hey, don't fret too hard! At least, not yet. More »

Rumor: Verizon Ditching Palm Pre, Screwing Both of Them

Uh, I'm not sure if this would be worse for Palm (who needs to be on more carriers) or for Verizon (who has the shittiest smartphones around), but TheStreet hears "Verizon has decided not to support the Pre." Crazy. More »

Sprint CEO on Pre vs iPhone: "It's like comparing someone to Michael Jordan"

Charlie Rose asked Sprint CEO Dan Hesse about how the Palm Pre is doing against the Apple iPhone. The bottom line: Well, but not too well. It almost feels like he's admitting defeat from the start. More »

Sprint Any Mobile Official: Unlimited Calls to All Mobile Numbers (Unless You're Roaming)

While other carriers, including AT&T, have MyFaves-style uncapped calling to pre-selected phones on any network, Sprint only had unlimited Sprint-to-Sprint calls—until now. Any Mobile is for "Everything Data" plans $69 and up, but there may be roaming implications… More »

Sprint Any Mobile: Unlimited Calls to All Mobile Numbers

We hear Sprint Any Mobile is a new calling feature with unlimited calls to all mobile numbers, true to the name. Which, we suspect, is the big "game changing" announcement Sprint's teasing for tomorrow's Sprint Connection Newsletter. [Sprint, Thanks tipsters!]

WebOS 1.2 Release Note From Sprint Says Update Coming Today

Sprint's support site has the release notes for the WebOS 1.2 update that already leaked and it's branded with a September 8th release date. After extensive and exhaustive research, I can officially confirm that today is September 8th. More »

Sprint Retracts $100 Palm Pre Deal After Only Six Hours

Here's how this went: AllThingsD found two explicit references on Sprint's website to a deal that gave new Sprint subscribers a Pre for $100. A few hours later, after an almost certainly hilarious "internal review," they canceled it. Uh, oops? More »

Sprint's Palm Pre Drops to $100, At Least For New Recruits (Update: Canceled!)

Sprint's effectively knocked another $100 off the price of the Palm Pre, with a mail-in rebate service rebate for anyone who ports a number from another carrier to start a new contract. Good news for everyone! (Except loyal Sprint customers.) More »

HTC Hero $100 Rebate Is Mercifully Instant at Best Buy

I had essentially taken this for granted, since Best Buy's instant rebate policy is storewide, but hey, just in case: Whittling the HTC Hero's price down to the advertised $180 will take the redemption of a $50 "instant savings" (don't worry about this) as well as a $100 mail-in rebate, which Best Buy has confirmed they'll take care of, sparing you the endless torment of cutting out a barcode, sticking it in an envelope and driving by the post office. More »

BlackBerry Essex: The Tour, Plus Wi-Fi and a Trackpad

Here's (Update: a mockup of) the BlackBerry Essex—basically a Tour tarted up with Wi-Fi and the Curve 8520's trackpad that's gonna creep across the line. So it's better. How you feel about that, Tour owners? [CrackBerry]

HTC Touch Pro2 Launching On Sprint September 8th For $350

Sprint customers that were riding high on the possibility that the HTC Touch Pro2 would arrive on their network were shot back down to earth today as the official word reveals a September 8th release date for $350. More »

New Palm Phones Appear in Sprint Inventory

Looks like the CDMA carriers are going to battle over which can carry more Palm phones. Verizon may have some Palm devices stored up, but it appears that Sprint also has a few additional Palm handsets in its arsenal. More »

FCC to Investigate Network Carriers' Competitive Practices

After much yaddayaddayadda, the Federal Communications Commission is finally launching a dedicated inquiry on cellphone network carriers' competitive practices. Their objective, according to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, is to make the industry "more competitive." Well, no kidding, Julius: More »

Samsung Instinct HD Shows Up On Best Buy: 5Mp Camera, HD Video Confirmed

Why hello Samsung Instinct HD. Looks like the Instinct S30 successor (aka Instinct S50 and Dash M850) will be exclusive to Best Buy at the shops, and have a 5Mp camera with video capture, HD-TV-out, Wi-Fi and visual voice mail. More »

Sprint-Compatible HTC Hero Clears the FCC

We've seen rumors that Sprint would be getting the Android-wielding HTC Hero, but now FCC documents have been released showing that a CDMA version (meaning Sprint-compatible) of the Hero has been approved for sale in the US. In other words, those rumors are looking pretty true at the moment. [FCC via Engadget]

Samsung's Android InstinctQ For Sprint Spotted In Leaked Pics

What is the InstinctQ? Well, these leaked pics from phandroid reveal a QWERTY slider for Sprint that is clearly running on Android. More »

Software Update Fixes the HTC Hero's Only Real Problem

Well, this changes things. Right after it came out, Matt called the HTC Hero "tragically flawed." Why? Because the otherwise fantastic Sense UI was slooooow. HTC, presumably run by competent, rational human beings, has fixed this. More »