Review: HTC PPC-6800 Mogul (Sprint)
We give the HTC PPC-6800 Mogul a month long, battle-tested review. Does the Mogul give Sprint an answer to Apple’s iPhone? Or is it too little, too late? Read more to find out. Buy a PPC-6800 Mogul from Wirefly ($249.99 with Contract) Update: I apologize that some of my comments have been mistaken for comparing […]
UTStarcom, Sprint Change Tune, Cancel PPC-6600 EV-DO
Until this week, both Sprint and UTStarcom were confirming to PCS Intel directly that the PPC-6600 would be updated to support EV-DO. However, that has now changed. Katie Wasserman, the Vice President for Marketing of UTStarcom’s Personal Communications division confirmed directly to PCS Intel this week that the PPC-6600 would not be updated to support […]
Sprint Re-Affirms Plans To Update PPC-6600
Despite missing a planned timeframe to release an EV-DO update for the PPC-6600 by the end of January, Sprint today confirmed to PCS Intel that the update is still planned for release. Sprint now plans to release the update by the end of the first quarter of this year. The PPC-6601 continues to be Sprint’s […]
PCS Intel Pro Giveaway 2: Chargers for Everyone
If you were a runner-up in our first giveaway, you didn’t get a charger. Long story short, the movers lost them. So, to make things even better, we’re going to give away a charger of your choice to every PCS Intel Pro member that is currently a member as of this posting. The only caveat […]
Sunday SPI Roundup
Taking a look at the past week in Sprint PCS Info, we started with insight into the GSM world’s problems with FOTA and DRM, why Sprint doesn’t have any high-end Nokia phones, what a re-branded PPC-6600 would look like, an editorial picking apart emerging TV technolgies such as MediaFLO and DVB-H, and… this just in, […]
Orb: Ready for Phones
We’d like to take a moment to spotlight Orb. Orb has been growing, and growing, and growing to a point where it has reached an almost iTunes-like popularity in the technocratic world. Well, they’re at it again. Orb, when combined with your home PC, will now stream live television to your MM-class Sprint phone. For […]
Sprint Plans To Update PPC-6600
Sprint has confirmed that they plan to update the PPC-6600 Series to support EV-DO. While the update is not expected before the end of the year, and must be approved by Sprint, it will enable EV-DO status similar to the Verizon version of the device.
SPI Labs: PPC-6600 & Tiger
As you probably know, we were the first site to create a process to allow the PPC-6600 to tether over Bluetooth with a Mac. And now, we’re the first site to figure out how to get it to work with Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger). When we were testing Tiger, Apple had offered two ways to […]
SPI Labs: More Progress on PPC-6600 & EV-DO
A brief follow-up to the recent coverage of the PPC-6600 and its potential support for EV-DO. We have been able to determine that the main reason that our original update did not work was Sprint’s EV-DO PRL. It appears that the 20007 PRL is very targeted for data card devices. Modified versions of the 20007 […]
SPI Labs: PPC-6600 Unofficial EV-DO Update *Updated Again*
Update 2: Well folks, while the update appears to be successful, it doesn’t work. We couldn’t tell when we made the update, because we simply didn’t know where EV-DO was available to test the update. Meaning, that while the update does work, and shows the PPC-6600 supports EV-DO (by accepting an EV-DO PRL properly), it […]