Smartphones might be all the rage, but that doesn’t mean messaging phones don’t provide a decent solutions to many mobile communications needs. To that end, Sprint has announced it is launching the Sanyo Incognito on November 30, with full retail sales beginning December 6. The Incognito features a glossy black, streamlined form factor sports an external OLED status display, but reveals a full QWERTY keypad and a 2.6-inch QVGA display when flipped open. And forget sticker shock: the Incognito will run just $49.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate…so long as its purchased with a two-year service agreement.
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Best Buy’s Holiday Android Phone Deals
Best Buy is making mobility a little more affordable this holiday season with its special Sprint Android Smartphone offers. The electronics retailer announced today it will be offering two Sprint smartphones—the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment—for $99.99, including instant rebates, with new two year activation. Both phones were originally $179. This offer runs all throughout December too.
Sprint and Other Investors Give Clearwire $1.5B in Financing
Investors in Clearwire Corp., including Sprint Nextel Corp. and major cable companies, Tuesday said they are pumping an additional $1.5 billion into the company so it can keep building out its nationwide wireless data network.
Sprint, which owns 51 percent of Clearwire, is putting up $1.176 billion. Comcast Corp., the country’s largest cable company, is investing $196 million, and Time Warner Cable Inc. and Bright House Networks are adding $103 million and $19 million, respectively.
Sprint resells Clearwire’s service, based on WiMax technology, in the few markets where it’s already available. Comcast does the same, giving it an opportunity to compete with the wireless data offerings of AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc.
Sprint Lights Up WiMax in New Markets, Rolls Out Dell Mini 10
U.S. mobile operator Sprint is continuing its charge into the 4G mobile broadband game, rolling out WiMax services in a slew of new markets, including Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, and a bunch of locations in North Carolina including Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill, and Cary, plus Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and High Point.
“Sprint continues to lead the charge in rolling out wireless 4G in cities across America and the momentum continues to build,” said Spring 4G VP Todd Rowley, in a statement. “Our aggressive expansion of Sprint 4G will include many new devices and capabilities that create increased performance and productivity while enhancing personal lifestyles on the go.”
Sprint Expands Android Family with Samsung Moment
U.S. mobile operator Sprint is jumping into the Android pool, putting the Samsung Moment on sale today for $179 after rebate with a new two-year service agreement. Although the Moment is not the much-anticipated Droid debuting soon on Verizon, the Moment does pack some key features, including a slide-out QWERTY keypad, a gorgeous 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, and a 3.2 megapixel camera, all driven by a sprightly 800 MHz CPU.
Sprint Third Quarter Loss Widens to $478 Million
Beleaguered U.S. telecommunications operator Sprint has posted its financial results for its third fiscal quarter of 2009…and the company is reporting a net loss of $478 million for the quarter. That’s 47 percent more than the company lost in the same quarter a year ago—that was $326 million—although CEO Dan Hesse says the company is turning a corner and seeing upticks in both pre-paid and post-paid subscribers.
“Sprint achieved its best net retail subscriber results in more than two years and improvement in both post-paid and prepaid gross subscriber additions,” said Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, in a statement. “Sprint is beginning to attract more customers with the industry’s best device line-up and the clarity and simplicity of our offers, [and] seven sequential quarters of improvement in customer care satisfaction.”
Palm Pixi Coming to Sprint November 15
Mobile operator Sprint has announced it will begin selling the Palm Pixi smartphone on November 15 for $99.99—although that attractive low price reflects a new sale with a two-year service contract, and is calculated after both a $50 instant rebate and a $100 mail-in rebate. The Pixi will be available online from Sprint and at Sprint retail locations, as well as Sprint retail partners like Best Buy, RadioShack, and Wal-Mart.
“We are excited to offer the new Palm Pixi to our customers in time for the holiday season, and it’s a great addition to Sprint’s industry-leading device portfolio,” said Sprint’s senior VP of product development Kevin Packingham, in a statement.
Verizon’s Big Ad Push for Android Takes on iPhone
An aggressive TV ad campaign from Verizon Wireless is adding to the support building for a software package from Google Inc. that is shaping up to be the most formidable challenge yet to Apple Inc.’s iPhone.
The commercials for the “Droid” phone, being made by Motorola Inc., list features that the iPhone lacks, such as a physical keyboard and the ability to run applications simultaneously. It ends with the tag line “Everything iDon’t. Droid does.”
Sprint Launches First Android Phone, the HTC Hero
Although retailer Best Buy jumped the gun a little bit, Sprint has formally launched its first Android device in the form of the HTC Hero, a highly-customizable smartphone with a 5 megapixel camera, 3.2-inch touchscreen display, a virtual QWERTY keyboard, and support for up to 32 GB of removable storage—and, of course, it’s running Android, which means it comes with built-in access to Google services (like Google Maps, Gmail, and YouTube) plus access to the growing Android market to feed user’s need for applications.
Dramatized Ads Weave Plot Lines Around Products
In television’s latest quest to discourage viewers from skipping ads, actors from NBC and ABC shows are appearing in character in commercials to interact with products in parallel story lines. This new kind of commercial further blurs the line between program and advertisement and comes as traditional product placements within shows, an early response to fast-forwarding, have become common.
A series of spots that debuted this week weaves Palm Inc.’s Pre phone more deeply into the story line of two prime-time dramas.
