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by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2012 7:24 PMAlong with the Galaxy Nexus, Sprint offered subscribers their first chances to grab an LTE-capable phone (in anticipation of the carrier starting service) with the LG Viper 4G LTE. We saw the Android launch back in April, sporting a dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon, a four-inch WVGA screen, and a gigabyte of RAM. If all that sounded good to you, but you look for phones that are on Team QWERTY, you might want to check out the LS860 Cayenne, tipped for future arrival at Sprint. The Cayenne is, based on what leaked specs are available, a duplicate of the Viper, with the addition of a sliding QWERTY...
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by Joe Levi | May 22, 2012 6:22 PMIf you're looking for a smartphone on Sprint’s website you'll find enough options to make your head spin. By my count there are 42 devices: four of them are iPhones, 19 are running Android. HTC is in comeback mode. It's put a fresh face on Sense UI, brought out some new devices, and shown us some very impressive specifications. The latest Android-powered smartphone to join Sprint's ranks is the HTC EVO 4G LTE, essentially a modified One X. Like its AT&T sibling, the EVO 4G LTE has a gorgeous display, unique design, and feels like a very well-built device. Inside the Box The box itself...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 21, 2012 7:32 PMEver since some HTC phones got caught-up in US Customs last week, plenty of anxious users have been wondering when the EVO 4G LTE on Sprint might finally arrive. Best Buy reached out to customers who had pre-ordered the handset with word that the phone might end up shipping on May 23, but the retailer later had to send out corrections, explaining that it still didn't have any idea just when the Android handset could continue with its launch. Most recently, we heard from HTC itself that progress had been made towards resolving the Customs hold-ups, and some phones had passed-through and were on...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 21, 2012 7:38 AMThe AT&T HTC One X and Sprint EVO 4G LTE (plus probably the T-Mobile Amaze 4G) were affected by U.S. Customs reviews and were delayed from the shelves because of an ITC ban imposed in defense of an Apple patent. The ban came into effect on April 19 and the manufacturer as well as the operators couldn't tell anything specific regarding a timeframe for resolving the issue. According to recent reports, HTC has issued a statement in Taiwan that brings some relieving information: "Some of our products have passed the review and have been delivered to our telecoms operators’ clients in the US...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 18, 2012 4:28 AMYou might want to treat this with a small dose of skepticism, at least until we hear official wording from Sprint itself, but according to the leaked document pictured above, Sprint will start offering iPhone trade-in credit given you grab the latest iPhone 4S. The program should kick off today and run through June 30; it should address both new and existing customers, given you sign a two-year contract and add a new line. At least $100 is what you'll get in credit for any iPhone, the exact amount probably depending on the model, condition and specs (as in internal storage). If you fancy an...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 18, 2012 3:34 AMThe HTC EVO 4G LTE should have been on shelves today, May 18, but thanks to an ITC ruling banning imports of HTC devices as of April 19 there are some delays thanks to U.S. Customs who are taking their job (and the ruling) seriously (as one would expect). There was a ray of light however which might have gotten your hopes up yesterday: Best Buy sent out a letter letting people know that the HTC EVO 4G LTE should be available as of May 23. Today Best Buy is taking your hopes and scatters them away. According to a new letter being sent out, the previous one contained incorrect information reg...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 17, 2012 4:04 PMUp until a couple days ago, things had been looking good for the retail launch of HTC's EVO 4G LTE on Sprint this coming Friday. All of a sudden, though, word arrived that HTC's shipments were being held-up in US Customs, in order to verify compliance with an International Trade Centre order stemming from a complaint brought-on by Apple. While HTC expressed confidence that the EVO 4G LTE, along with the company's One X, didn't include the features restricted by that ITC decision, we weren't sure just how long the delay might affect the phone's arrival. It now looks like things will be resolved...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 17, 2012 8:27 AMWhile Android users who also happen to be Sprint subscribers were able to take advantage of carrier billing when purchasing applications from the Google Play Store, there were still some missing features in terms of paying for other content bought from Mountain View's online market. Google recently announced that Sprint is now fully supporting carrier billing for all purchases from the Google Play Store. This means you will be able to buy also books, music, and movies with the costs being added to your monthly phone bill. If you don't have a credit card or you don't want to use it for purch...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 16, 2012 3:15 AMThe HTC One X for AT&T and the upcoming HTC EVO 4G LTE for Sprint -- which should hit the shelves this Friday, May 18 -- appear to be delayed by U.S. Customs, according to an official statement released by the Taiwanese manufacturer. The reason behind the delay, according to the wording, is "standard U.S. Customs review of shipments that is required after an ITC exclusion order". "The US availability of the HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G LTE has been delayed due to a standard U.S. Customs review of shipments that is required after an ITC exclusion order. We believe we are in compliance with t...
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by Jaime Rivera | May 15, 2012 8:00 AMAs a geek, it's sometimes hard for me or many of us to leave the tech bubble that we're surrounded with in order to understand why the average consumer sees things differently. Our own passion for gadgets pushes us to swap phones constantly, where as the average user signs a contract for one phone they won't be able to change for the next two years. With such a huge commitment, it's still an illogical mystery to many how Apple was able to push their iPhone from complete in-existence to being the top selling smartphone in the world. I say illogical because it was significantly more expensive th...
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by Evan Blass | May 14, 2012 11:30 AMWith the highly-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III practically confirmed for all four major US carriers, we thought it would be fun to gather up test shots from their respective eight-megapixel cameras. Don't expect anything you can print out and frame, though: the pickings here were decidedly slim, with most of the variants only offering up a handful of examples -- none of which apparently took into account the subject nor quality of the image. Still, as with the first iPhone 4S test photo, there's something fun about checking out images from unreleased devices that will soon sweep the country ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 11, 2012 3:10 PMHTC's EVO 4G LTE for Sprint is shaping up to be one of the highlights of the manufacturer's latest series of Android handsets. The carrier confirmed earlier this week that the smartphone will make its retail debut next Friday, on May 18. Sprint's got pre-sales of the EVO 4G going for $200 on-contract, but if you've put off placing your order, there's now an even better deal available, with Amazon pre-orders costing $50 less. Amazon Wireless has the EVO 4G LTE on two-year contract for a hair under $150. Right now the site is showing the phone as backordered in addition to being up for pre-or...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 10, 2012 8:08 PMLG's Optimus LTE2, with its 2GB of RAM, has recently been revealing to us the manufacturer's latest efforts to step-up its Android game. While the phone sounds like it will have more than enough memory, some users might have been disappointed that the rest of the phone's rumored hardware isn't quite up to that same level of excess. Well, if that's what you're into, we might have just the LG phone for you, as some new leaks make the company's model LS970 out to be quite the Android powerhouse. The LS970 will apparently come with a Qualcomm APQ8064 under its hood. That's one of the company's ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 10, 2012 7:02 PMThe HTC EVO 3D on Sprint is one of those phones where we've long known that the handset will be seeing an upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich, but didn't have a strong grasp on just when that might be. With the news that the Virgin Mobile version of the phone would come with ICS (and the related screw-up where many Sprint users flashed the leaked ROM for that phone onto their Sprint handsets, temporarily giving them Virgin branding without an obvious way to go back), you could probably make a safe bet that ICS would come to the EVO 3D sooner rather than later, but we still lacked official confirmati...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 10, 2012 3:02 AMWe first heard of the Samsung SPH-L300 LTE for Sprint a couple of days ago when, thanks to User Agent Profiles, we found out that it will be a mid-range device with LTE capability. The image above claims to be the L300, with interesting buttons at the bottom -- reportedly fake metal -- and a huge bezel at the top. That aside we can only tell you for sure that it will feature NFC, as reported. The SPH-L300 is expected to sport a WVGA resolution screen, 1080p-capable five-megapixel camera, Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 SoC is, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of storage, Bluetooth 4.0, and a 1.3-megapixel fr...
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