Articles tagged with: Smartphones and Sprint Nextel

Maturing Palm Centro Again Signals Need for Innovation

..operating system and didn't truly change the way its smartphones worked. "Palm really hasn't come up with anything that's as good as what's in the market," said Shahid Khan, senior partner at media and telecom consultancy IBB Consult more

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CTIA Wireless Show to Focus on Open Network Opportunities

..d operating system to get its browser on more smartphones. Google eyes the advertising opportunities in mobile as potentially more lucrative than the Internet because of the personal nature of the handset. The carriers will also be demonstrati more

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Sprint Nextel Offers Software Upgrade for HTC Smartphones

Sprint Nextel is offering a software update for the HTC supplied Touch and Mogul smartphones to add support for EV-DO Rev. A data speeds as well as Windows Mobile 6.1. The upgrade also includes enhanced GPS capabilities, allowing support of popular applications such as Sprint Navigation. Sprint Navigation provides audio and visual turn-by-turn directions, more than 10 million local listings, and one-click traffic rerouting, similar to an in-vehicle GPS system.  more

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Palm Looks to Keep Pace With New Treo for Sprint

..alm held 2.9% of the global market for smartphones, compared with Apple's 5.3% market share, according to Gartner Inc. Keast, however, argued that the iPhone is going after the consumer market, whereas the new Treo is geared toward corporate c more

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Sprint Expands Range of Phones That Get Corporate E-Mail

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Sprint Nextel plans to give a number of its non-smartphones access to corporate e-mail accounts in an effort to entice subscribers and stave off customer defections.  more

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US Operators Ad Spend Passes $4 Billion in 2007

..ustry figure of 12%. The study also found that spending on advertising for smartphones jumped massively during the past yea - reaching $300 million on that segment alone.  more

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Motorola to Split Off Handset Business

..igher-end phones, and that mobile devices will still be an attractive market several years from now. -By Roger Cheng, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-2020; roger.cheng@dowjones.com (Donna Kardos contributed to this story.) (END) Dow Jones Newswir more

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Wireless Carriers Want to Bring Connection to New Devices

..d beyond cellphones and smartphones by providing aircards that can be plugged into laptops to provide cellular-based Internet access. Adoption has sped as the carriers have moved to faster third-generation, or 3G, networks. By opening its netw more

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Wireless Carriers Target Young Texters With Latest Phones

..th in smartphones and quasi-smartphones is Microsoft, whose Windows Mobile operating system is powering many of these devices. Harry Putz, general manager for the communications sector in North America for Microsoft, said the company sold 11 mill more

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