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Weather by SMS

August 6th, 2009 No comments

There’s a new free weather notification service called CellWarn that sends watches, warnings, advisories and even forecasts to your cell phone or email.   Its nothing revolutionary, you can get this type of stuff free a lot of places, but this service sends warnings by polygon where most others will send you a warning if any part of your county is in a warning.   The National Weather Service issues

Mobile Broadband cards – To roam or not to roam.

August 5th, 2009 No comments

On 8/6/09, Sprint Smartview – the connection manager for CDMA Broadband cards will update its software to version 2.27. This new software version gives CDMA Mobile Broadband Card customers the choice to either restrict international roaming or allow it.     The new software will be available 8/6/09 at www.sprint.com/downloads . The new softeware defaults to automatically restrict international roaming.

Samsung Exclaim (M550)-Coming soon in white!

August 4th, 2009 No comments

The Samsung Exclaim will soon be available in white.  This launches exclusively in Radio Shack on 8/7/2009 for 60 days.  All other channels including retail will recieve the device in white on 10/11/2009.

SPRINT NEXTEL Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results

July 31st, 2009 No comments

Agreed re the CDMA side of things.   However, iDEN is seriously an uptapped resource.  The fact that the company is losing post-paid iDEN subscribers, I believe, has more to do with a combination of things.  First, the fact that this company is offering unlimited everything to Boost users at a flat $50/month while post-paid users have to pay easily $70+ for the same services is one reason.  Secondly,

Oops! Best Buy Sells Palm Pre for $99 in Error

July 28th, 2009 No comments

Lucky People Too bad none of us knew about this. thats gotta hurt  their bottm line sales.