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Tuesday April 1, 2008
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Here's a surprise: Sprint CEO Dan Hesse just announced that his carrier will have a Wi-Fi, iDen Blackberry on the Nextel network "later this year."
That's all he said on the topic in his CTIA keynote spech today, but it's pretty big news, considering the company hasn't been giving their old iDen network much smartphone love. (iDen has a Blackberry and a Windows Mobile phone, but they're both quite old.)
The Nextel "push-to-X" network will also get new phones from Sanyo, Samsung, Motorola and LG that will run on Sprint's CDMA network, but with Nextel's push-button 'chirp' services, Hesse said.
"One capability that makes Sprint unique is the push to talk network that sets the gold standard," Hesse said. "If it's not sub-second [connectivity], it's second rate."
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April 6, 2008 4:04 PM
its about damned time they came out with something new, hopefully it will be cool, and sleek like all the other competitors out there and push the edge of competition, because nothing beats PTT.
April 8, 2008 8:42 AM
hell yeah.
does anyone know where pictures of the bb might be?
April 18, 2008 2:21 PM
so.... i can have a funeral for the 7100i? had the Sprint 8130 3 weeks, TRASH!!! back from the dead--to the 7100i! nextel-sprint-nextel! Might go with the Curve 8330 to be released on April 20th.
April 25, 2008 4:38 PM
Thought they were discontinuing support for the iDEN Network 2010.