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5Words for Monday, September 14th, 2009

Monday, September 14, 2009

Like 5Words? Subscribe via RSS. Will T-Mobile pick up Sprint? NYTimes.com delivers ad-based malware. FTC stops Sears, Kmart spying. AT&T starts iPhone MMS early. Dell discounts the Zune HD. Apple’s hogging all the flash. Apple chops Apple TV price. Here’s your Atari 800 laptop. Eee Keyboard PC: October arrival. Nokia’s Booklet: priciest netbook ever.

Free Cell-to-Cell Calls From Sprint

Thursday, September 10, 2009

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TechVi broke this news, which is now official: Any Sprint customer on the base $70 / month plan, which includes unlimited data, text and MMS messages, and 450 minutes, will be able to call any other cell phone on T-Mobile, Verizon, or AT&T without using plan minutes. That’s not unlimited calling, but for some people, it would [...]

Palm Announces the Pixi

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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It’s been the subject of rumors for months–including ones that said it was on hold–and now it’s official: The second WebOS phone from Palm is on its way. It’s called the Palm Pixi (rumors had the code name as Eos or Pixie) and it looks to be a Centro to the Pre’s Treo: a cheaper, [...]

Sprint: The Pre is on Sale. No, Wait, Forget It!

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

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Well, this is weird and embarrassing: All Things Digital’s John Paczkowski, who reported earlier today on a $100 discount for new Sprint customers who bring their phone numbers from another carrier that brought the final price of the Palm Pre to $99, has posted a new story saying that Sprint has decided to pull the [...]

Take Back the Beep!

Thursday, July 30, 2009

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My friend David Pogue of the New York Times is a man on a mission. He’s become irate over the time that cell phone company voicemail systems spend playing a recorded message telling you to leave a message, explaining how to send a page, and suggesting that you hang up when you’re done leaving the [...]

A Netbook for the Price of a Newspaper

Monday, July 6, 2009

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JK on the Run’s Kevin Tofel has noticed an eye-popping deal currently being offered by Best Buy: Sign up for a two-year Sprint EVDO contract at sixty bucks a month, and you can buy a Compaq netbook for ninety-nine cents. The netbook goes for $389.99 without a contract, so it’s a discount of a whopping [...]

Palm Pre Selling Better than Expected: Analyst

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Both Sprint and Palm have a lot riding on the Palm Pre. In Sprint’s case, the carrier desperately needs a hit to help it stop bleeding customers. For Palm, its much more serious: either the Pre is a success, or the company itself may fail. According to Charter Equity Research analyst Edward Snyder, neither company has [...]

Verizon vs. Sprint vs. AT&T

Monday, June 29, 2009

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Sprint claims to have “America’s most dependable 3G network.” Verizon says it has “America’s largest and most reliable wireless network.” AT&T says it has “the nation’s fastest 3G network.” With wireless, in other words, everybody’s a winner–if you ask the carriers themselves. Which is why I admire what Mark Sullivan and my other PC World pals [...]

Should Original iPhone Owners Ditch Apple for a Pre?

Friday, June 26, 2009

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PreThinking has noticed that Sprint is running ads for the Palm Pre directed at the earliest of iPhone adopters–the folks who bought first-generation iPhones two years ago, and whose contracts are therefore starting to end. (Or will be in a few days–next Monday is the second anniversary of the iPhone’s introduction.) The ads correctly point [...]

5Words for Memorial Day, May 25th, 2009

Monday, May 25, 2009

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Holidays are usually pretty quiet: Google Earth honors the fallen. Read Sprint’s Pre launch guide. Lenovo to use Nvidia’s Ion. More about AT&T’s Palm EOS. Safari 4 practices poor housekeeping. Goal one for Pre: browsing. Gotta love the name “Wooo.” iPhone-painted New Yorker cover. Iran blocks Facebook. (Twitter? MySpace?) A more Mac-like Linux.

Not the Way to Start Your Palm Pre Launch

Friday, May 22, 2009

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The Boy Genius Report claims that Best Buy will only receive about 4,250 Palm Pres for its launch on June 6–a pittance considering the retailer has at least 1,000 retail locations set to offer the device. If these initial shipment numbers are true, each store would receive four units, far less that what you’d think [...]

AT&T: Palm’s Pre Stinks Because…

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

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PreCentral has what appears to be an internal AT&T document designed to prep staffers on how to compare the iPhone 3G with Palm’s upcoming Pre. It’s not completely stunning that it tends to accentuate the negative when it comes to the Pre, and the positive when it comes to the iPhone: As unfair comparisons go, this [...]

5Words for March 25th, 2009

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

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No history-making news today: The White House’s Digg clone. Yahoo closes FareChase travel site. Guy Kawasaki provides Twitter tips. Mozilla plans 3D graphcs Web. Canon DSLR does 1080p video. Sprint details WiMax rollout plans. HD radio: a progress report. Finally! Castle Wolfenstein for iPhone. PCMag likes Wacom’s latest tablet. This Eee PC’s a keyboard.

Sprint a Little Wishy-Washy on WiMax?

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

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GigaOM is reporting that Sprint has reportedly begun testing LTE equipment, a move that may suggest it may not be completely confident that WiMax may be its eventual route for 4G. Sprint owns 51 percent of Clearwire, a company commited to bringing near-nationwide WiMax access by 2010. However, its competitors have all decided that LTE is [...]

5Words for February 12th 2009

Thursday, February 12, 2009

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Looks pretty quiet out there: Nice Web site, Your Majesty! Sprint posts Palm Pre specs. Movie-and-game combo discs. Microsoft’s advice: Get Vista. Now! Shorty Awards honor popular Tweeters. Fujitsu’s $900 e-book does color. Sirius XM: Help! Help! Help! Pioneer quits the TV business.

Sprint to Undercut Itself With $50 Boost Unlimited Plan

Friday, January 16, 2009

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I don’t know but this seems just a bit odd to me. Sprint Nextel owned prepay company Boost Mobile is set to offer a $50 monthly plan which would give its users unlimited voice, text, data, and “chirp” (walkie-talkie for us less hip) beginning on January 22. Unlike other prepay companies, who offer unlimited plans on [...]