Today Sprint announced the Reclaim from Sprint, a phone that was made with 80% recycled materials. The phone’s charger consumes 12 times less power than the Energy Star standard requires. The outer casing is made from 40% bio-plastics and the packaging materials are made form 70% recycled materials. The Reclaim is a slider with full [...]

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The Toshiba TG01 smartphone, notable for its use of a high-powered 1GHz Snapdragon CPU from Qualcomm, has appeared on the FCC website. Unlike the usual FCC listings, the TG01 tested in this case is a production-ready device with support for CDMA networks and not a prototype, indicating it will very soon launch at either Sprint [...]

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Sprint Nextel recently revealed that it plans to add Wi-Fi to the BlackBerry Tour starting in 2010, and will begin to require that all its future smartphones come with Wi-Fi. Sprint didn’t say exactly when this requirement will be reflected across its entire line-up of devices, but Wi-Fi is definitely on the way. Verizon Wireless [...]

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Today Sprint announced that it will begin selling the BlackBerry 9630 Tour via telesales, online and its business channels on July 12 for $200. That’s the same date the phone goes on sale at Verizon Wireless and at the same price point.

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Motorola announced the iDEN Clutch i465 on May 1st. Now Sprint announces to carry the Motorola Clutch i465.
The Motorola Clutch i465 is a rugged device in a slender candy bar form factor, and the first Nextel Direct Connect messaging-centric device that brings the strength of a full QWERTY keyboard to the iDEN line. Motorola Clutch [...]

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Sprint recently began offering two new feature phones for sale. Shared features include Sprint’s OneClick user interface, 2 megapixel cameras with video capture, stereo Bluetooth, GPS for navigation, and support for microSD cards.

LG LX370: This simple slider can access many of Sprint’s services and costs $100 after rebate with new agreement.
Exclaim: This dual slider has [...]

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Today Research In Motion announced the BlackBerry 9630 Tour, a new QWERTY-equipped device that supports both CDMA EVDO Rev. A and quad-band GSM/EDGE plus 2100MHz HSDPA networks. The Tour also comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera with flash, autofocus and video capture. The Tour has a full HTML web browser, 3.5mm headset jack, Bluetooth 2.0 [...]

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Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said that there is a high likelihood that there will be shortages of the Palm Pre. He said, “We don’t intend to advertise [the Pre] heavily early on because we think we are going to have shortages for a while. We won’t be able to keep up with demand for the [...]

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Much has been said of the Palm Pre and the handset itself hasn’t even been released yet. Well there’s more to whet your appetite before its imminent launch on the American CDMA network, Sprint. A series of pictures has leaked onto the internet showing the box and packaging for the Pre. Enjoy another chapter in [...]

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Twitter continues to expand into the mainstream. It’s already being used by a number of celebrities, it’s all over news channels and its founders have even started making the rounds on various television shows like The Colbert Report. Now, Sprint has released a commercial, running across the country, that features the service — and also [...]

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Samsung today announced the Instinct S30, a successor to the Instinct. The Instinct S30 (model number SPH-M810) is more streamlined than the orginal, and will be available in two colors: “Cobalt Metal” and “Touch of Copper”. The S30 will come with Opera Mini 4.2, calendar sync, IM, and an upgraded memory card slot supporting 32 [...]

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Today Sprint announced a major planned expansion of its WiMax-powered 4G footprint. Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Portland and Seattle will all see service launched some time during 2009. Sprint also said that it plans to launch WiMax service in Boston, Houston, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. during [...]

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With official specs and photos of the BlackBerry 9630 Niagara still some ways off, new live photos leaked over the weekend via CrackBerry shed some more light on the handset. Coming about a week after the orginal leaked photos, one of the new images reveals the backside of the handset, confirming it will run on [...]

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Documents seen on the FCC site provide details about an unannounced Motorola phone. The QA4 is a slider that also features a touch screen for user input. It has tri-band 850/1700/1900 MHz CDMA radios, including EVDO, aGPS and stereo Bluetooth. A camera of unknown quality is visible in the pictures of the QA4, and the [...]

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Today Sprint announced the LG Rumor2, a revision of the Rumor that was first offered by Sprint in late 2007. The biggest changes compared to the original are an expanded QWERTY keyboard with more rows to make typing easier. It also brings stereo Bluetooth, improves the display to QVGA resolution, and includes an additional battery [...]

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