AT&T to Complete HSPA Network Upgrade This Year
AT&T Vice-President of Network Architecture Hank Kafka has made definitive statements regarding the carrier’s progress in upgrading its 3G W-CDMA enabled markets. Speaking at a roundtable meeting sponsored by the GSM Association, Kafka stated that AT&T had 255 markets with HSDPA access in 2007 and expects to add more with a total goal of 350 […]
Software Update for AT&T Tilt Released
Released today from HTC, the latest ROM Update for the AT&T Tilt provides multiple upgrades such as enhanced Bluetooth performance, the option of enabling DTMF tones for the slide-out QWERTY keyboard, improvement of overall device performance and stability as well as the inclusion of the Microsoft AKU (Service Pack) 0.4. This ROM update brings your […]
Sprint Finds New Ways to Charge for ESN Swaps
Over the course of the past two weeks, Sprint has begun to charge $18 ESN swap fees to customers. Sprint calls this an “upgrade fee”, as it is only applies to phones that have not been activated in the past. This is different from past ESN swap fees charged, which applied to all ESN swaps […]
LG MM-535, Sanyo MM-9000 Updated (Updated Again)
Update 2: Readers are reporting 1.012SP has been released for the Sanyo MM-9000 via FOTA. This fixes more bugs not corrected with 1.011SP in regards to Picture Mail. Update: Readers are reporting 1.011SP has been released for the Sanyo MM-9000 via FOTA. Sprint has been updating their phones at a very mixed pace recently. Sometimes, […]
Sprint Refreshes Plans, Data, Upgrade Options (Updated)
Update: Sources have sent in a few clarifications we fell worth passing on. First, SMS is no longer bundled with Vision. On the new Vision offerings it will be $5 for 100 messages and $10 for unlimited. Grandfathered customers with 100 message buckets in their Vision packs will still be able to upgrade to unlimited […]
Forum Update
The Store Reviews forum now handles store reviews for all carriers (for example, the Cingular store or Nextel store). Also, the SPI Supporter Congas have been moved to a new forum called Conga Central. Sprint PCS Info Forums
Site Upgrade
SPI has been updated to version 7.6 of the PHP-Nuke Content Management System. This update adds support for RSS/XML newsfeeds in both Mozilla Firefox and Safari Tiger.
Upgrade Program Tweaked
Sprint appears to have modified their Handset Upgrade Program in four key ways: 1) Program has been renamed New For You Upgrade Program 2) You used to be able to receive half the elegible discount after 12 months of having the phone active on your account, this has been removed, and really was never publicized. […]