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sprint

Sprint Wants to Dump Nextel

Fresh off, uh, fresh rumors that T-Mobile's making eyes at Sprint, the WSJ is reporting that Sprint is "seriously considering spinning off or selling its ailing Nextel unit." The Sprint/Nextel hybrid has basically been the poster child for train wrecks masquerading as mergers, with Nextel being much (but not all) of the heavy weight slowly sinking the USS Sprint. Here's three reasons Sprint should throw Nextel overboard and what it would mean for you. More »

5:15 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By matt buchanan
8,208 views, 27 comments

Latest by n/a: @vertigo: GEEEZ! There are some Nextel HATERS here! I switched from T-Mobile to Nextel over 3 years ago, T-Mobile was giving me free phones and service without deposits, but the service and the phones SUCKED!!! My wife and I wanted Nextel more »

sprint

Sprint to Revive Nextel With Wi-Fi BlackBerry and CDMA Phones

According to a Gearlog report from CTIA, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse is promising an unnamed new iDEN BlackBerry with both push-to-talk and Wi-Fi, a full-featured smartphone to put some juice into the abysmal Nextel network. He also pledged new phones from Sanyo, Samsung, Motorola and LG that run on the CDMA network most Sprint customers use, but will have Nextel's push-to-talk and other "chirp" services. This sounds to me like waffling: if iDEN can't attract handset makers and has no high-bandwidth roadmap, why encourage the format? I'm all for moving in the CDMA direction and easing customers in with familiar services, but hasn't that been the plan all along? And hasn't it been failing? [Gearlog via Electronista]

6:15 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Wilson Rothman
4,685 views, 24 comments

Latest by Zlevee: Still used heavily in the construction industry. Blackberry's with the push-to-talk feature are used by management people in that industry. more »

wireless

Sprint Looking to Get Back with Clearwire on WiMax: It's Not You Baby, It's Me

After a messy breakup in November, Sprint Nextel is looking to get the Clearwire WiMax partnership back on track—and they are courting other major companies to sweeten the deal. More »

6:50 PM on Tue Jan 29 2008
By Sean Fallon
2,800 views, 5 comments

cellphones

Confirmed: Sprint Will Ship BlackBerry Pearl 8130 on Black Friday; Moto Q and i335 Coming Too

Rumor confirmed. On Friday, November 23, better known to you Dealzmodo nuts as Black Friday, Sprint plans to roll out the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 ($200 with two-year contract and $50 mail-in rebate). Buyers of the BlackBerry can also get the new Power Vision BlackBerry Pack: For $30 per month on top of your voice plan, you get unlimited web and data access, unlimited text messaging, support for 10 email accounts, plus Sprint Navigation and Sprint TV, all on the EV-DO network. Black Friday will also bring Motorola's Windows-Mobile Q9c ($150 with two-year contract and $100 mail-in rebate) and the slim, sexy and military-grade dust- shock- and vibration-resistant Moto i335 for Nextel ($50 with two-year contract and $50 mail-in rebate). [Sprint]

9:46 AM on Thu Nov 15 2007
By Wilson Rothman
7,842 views, 12 comments

Latest by n/a: While many people get Black Friday off, it isn't a holiday. UPS and the rest(I think even US mail is delivering that day too) will be shipping on those days more »

money, money

Sprint Earnings Report: Not So Great, But the Sky's Not Falling Yet

Well, if AT&T and Verizon are having slambang quarters, someone's gotta get the short end of the stick. And that someone is Sprint, though the picture's not quite as dire as the summary execution of their former CEO depicts. "Consoliated net operating revenues" for the quarter were $10 billion, down half a billion from last year's Q3, with net income falling to $64 million from $279 million. While they've added 2.1 million subscribers since the same quarter last year to hit 54 million, they've lost 60,000 subscribers since last quarter, and the revenue hit actually stems from lower wireless revenues. More »

4:00 PM on Thu Nov 1 2007
By Matt Buchanan
1,632 views, 24 comments

Latest by Notrevo: @SneakerFiend: I love it when people like you show how ignorant they truly are when it comes to the wireless industry. more »

The Sprint CEO troubles have come to a head as CEO, Chairman and President Gary Forsee resigns. Too bad he didn't forsee some better business decisions. [PC World]

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Apparently things aren't so dandy over in Sprint-Nextel land, since they're shopping around for a new CEO to turn around the sinking profit train they're currently riding express on. [NYT]

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moto holiday 2007

Motorola Shows Off Cheap Sexy Still-Unannounced i335 for Nextel

The i335 is a thin candybar with a rubber keypad that feels like leather and a funky corrugated plastic back. It's been rumored here and there, and should not be confused with an older Moto with the same name. Regardless, Motorola and its partner in iDEN crime Sprint (as in Nextel) have yet to say anything more than that it'll be out for holidays and it will be "affordable." Yeah, it's missing a camera, a big LCD and any kind of bandwidth. But it's better looking than the other Nextel phones, and its price, still unannounced, is supposedly rock bottom.

9:45 PM on Thu Jul 26 2007
By Wilson Rothman
7,422 views, 9 comments

Latest by al2six: well i guess sprint won't be killing iDEN as soon as some thought [www.mobilealmanac.com] more »

where you at

Sprint Adds Social GPS Functionality to 25 Phones

If you liked the social GPS features that Helio offers on both its Drift and Ocean phones—you know, the one that gives you a list of where all your friends are—Sprint's partnering up with loopt to give you something similar. For an extra $2.99, you'll get to add GPS-based social mapping to "more than" 25 Sprint and Nextel phones, which means only already GPS-enabled phones will be able to take advantage of this. More »

2:40 PM on Tue Jul 17 2007
By Jason Chen
2,535 views, 3 comments

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Sprint Plans to "Sprint Ahead," Minus Nextel

Brand identity crises seem to be all the rage these days—Sprint's joining the party by all but dropping the Nextel name and adopting the all-too-easy slogan of "Sprint Ahead." The focus of the new marketing campaign, which starts July 1, will be on its data services and network speed. More »

9:30 AM on Wed Jun 27 2007
By Matt Buchanan
6,344 views, 15 comments

summertime

Top 5 Water-resistant Phones

The summer is here and InfoSync has reviewed the Top 5 best water-resistant, ruggerized phones. They tested the Verizon Wireless G'zOne Type-V and Type-S and Nextel's Motorola i880, ic502 and ic402. They are all good and do their job reasonably well. After reading their report, we know exactly what cell we would like to take to the beach. More »

5:53 AM on Tue Jun 19 2007
By Addy Dugdale
11,066 views, 6 comments

cellphones

Even More Zune Phone Rumors! WiMax? VoIP? Sharing With Anybody?

Despite being pretty certain that the Zune Phone was already in development, we haven't had many details about its featureset, timeline, or, well, anything else. Now we do. More »

2:00 PM on Fri Feb 9 2007
By Jason Chen
1,182 views, 12 comments

cellphones

Samsung m500 Cellphone For Sprint: Meh Phone, Radical Box

Oh my, look what Santa brought me today, completely unannounced: the Samsung m500 for Sprint (or Nextell or whatever they're calling themselves these days)! My quick impressions are that it's pretty much a standard cellphone (1.3-megapixel camera, microSD slot, etc.). Yes, it supports Sprint's super-de-dooper Power Vision network, which hosts all sorts of video and music content that you cold stomach. (So did the a900m from a few months ago, too.) But you know what? It shipped in a really cool box, like the Zune's. In fact, I'd say that the box the cellphone came in is cooler than the phone itself. I'm talking, solid brushed nickel, people. It's so heavy it could probably kill a man. – Nicholas Deleon More »

5:28 PM on Mon Nov 20 2006
By Gizloco
983 views, 1 comment

Latest by rimplestultskin: here's to hoping the m610 "glint" comes in just as nice a package. so i can protect it from RAZR fanboys trying to 'destroy my RAZR killer before i can unbox the fucker'. more »

wireless

Sprint WiMax Network Going Live in Q4 2007

sprint_nextel.jpgWe reported Tuesday about Sprint Nextel's WiMax broadband wireless network it was planning to build
using WiMax technology. Now, the company says it's going to start laying down some serious money to make this happen, vowing to spend $3 billion over the next two years to build the WiMax network. The advantage for us? Nothing short of accessing video, music, voice and even video calls wherever we are and whenever we want. Is anybody thinking the current wireless "broadband" service EV-DO is fast? Says Sprint CEO Gary Forsee:
"The 4G network will be four times faster than today's EV-DO network. And at these speeds, it's all about lighting up new devices. Imagine accessing YouTube.com and MySpace.com literally on the fly."

Hey, they're serious about this. It might happen sooner than anticipated, too—Sprint said the network would go live in the fourth quarter of 2007, adding that 100 million users would be on that network by the end of 2008. The best news for us is that this really is going to be similar to cable broadband service if these suits aren't lying, and they're saying the average download speeds will be between 2mbps and 4Mbps. Bring it. – Charlie White More »

8:56 AM on Thu Aug 10 2006
By Charlie White
6,601 views, 6 comments

Latest by hindukid8: @Axtell: i believe they already have fixed the Nextel network. the new Powersource phones have voice on the Sprint 1900band and walkie talkie on the Nextel 700 band. no more static or dropped calls. so bring on wimax...don't you understand more »

portable media

Sprint to Build WiMax Network by 2008

We've seen the chips that handle WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) getting smaller and smaller, and now we hear that Sprint will be using WiMax for its next-generation service, otherwise known as 4G. That's right, think Web on the move, anywhere and fast. Next Tuesday, Sprint Nextel will announce it will be building a broadband wireless network using WiMax technology, according to BusinessWeek. More »

1:02 PM on Tue Aug 8 2006
By Charlie White
671 views, 7 comments

cellphones

Motorola Q Heading to Sprint Nextel Q4 2006

Good news to all you poor bastards who are tied to Sprint Nextel because that's the service that some schmuck at work—who's long gone by the way—decided the company should use. Sprint Nextel's CEO Len Lauer said that they're going to get the Motorola Q come Q4 2006. Their poor financial results discussed at during today's conference call were seen by some analysts as caused by not carrying the popular Motorola phones like the RAZR or SLVR. More »

8:32 PM on Thu Aug 3 2006
By Jason Chen
1,683 views, 5 comments

Latest by made2last: great, thats why I signed a 1 year with Verizon... now I can get a real phone and data plan in a year. more »

cellphones

Clarification: Motorola's i880 and i885 NOT Dual Mode

We spoke to a Motorola iDEN devices rep and confirmed that the Motorola i880 and i885 we posted about are NOT cross platform, dual-mode phones. They're only iDEN with PTT functionality that work on Nextel's service. More »

7:40 PM on Thu Jul 27 2006
By Jason Chen
4,620 views, 2 comments

cellphones

Nextel Getting Two-Megapixel Cameraphones From Motorola

motoi880.JPGAt the company analyst event in Chicago, Motorola showed off their i880 and i885 cross-platform phones that work on both Sprint's CDMA and Nextel's iDEN network. You can interpolate from that that they'll both support the push-to-talk sound everyone loves to hear. More »

5:15 PM on Tue Jul 25 2006
By Jason Chen
2,483 views, 3 comments

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