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Learn about opportunities for developers within the Java ME space Learn about opportunities for developers within the Java ME space. Click here to see an interview with Paul Reddick, VP of Business Development and product Innovation at Sprint Nextel. Paul gives Sprint's perspective on breaking into the mobility market, technology and business trends, and go-to-market successes. The Geography of Mobile Location Services "Sprint Nextel, along with its large developer community, has become a sort of global poster child for success" Sprint NetBeans Mobility Case Study Sprint case study on our mobility developer portal. April 21 Wireless Week Mobile Content news flash. Percentage of Location-Based Services by Carrier Sprint Nextel: 53% Sprint reaches 2 million song downloads Sprint customers have downloaded two million songs from the Sprint Music Store since the service debuted in late October, it was announced April 6th at the CTIA Wireless 2006 conference in Las Vegas. In addition, the Sprint Music Store was honored at the conference with two high-profile industry awards: Wireless Weeks Excellence Award for Mobile Content and Outlook 4Mobilitys Innovation Award. Read News Release. *****************************************************
The following articles are populated on a daily basis to keep you informed on some of the latest news in the wireless data space: Initially in 2002, Bell Mobility and Nextel, now part of Sprint Nextel, were alone in offering high-precision GPS-based services to their customers. In 2005, Sprint launched the Business Mobility Framework, which gave enterprises and developers the ability to leverage newly optimized location and presence features in the network to devise their own applications. Verizon Wireless introduced its own services in 2006. Even more powerful was Sprint Nextel's move last year to port all of the advanced LBS applications from Nextel's iDEN network onto Sprint's CDMA network. This has resulted in an adoption surge in the enterprise, said Mary Foltz, director of wireless data business solutions for Sprint Nextel.
Sprint Nextel Corp. has thrown down a gauntlet in the form of two new unlimited voice and data plans offered in the San Francisco market, home of a high-tech populace. Sprint Nextel's two Unlimited Access Pack plans include a $120-per-month plan that includes unlimited voice calling, messaging and mobile Web access, and a $150-per-month plan that bundles all of those options plus unlimited Internet access for a personal computer. Global VoIP over Wi-Fi equipment will drive $82 billion in revenue by 2012, according to Juniper Research, which projects that dual-mode handsets--cellular and Wi-Fi--will dominate that market. North America will account for nearly half the projected revenue, Juniper forecast.
Here's one that Sprint bashers won't like. A Texas technology firm studied calls made from more than 130,000 wireless phones and found that Sprint offers the most reliable service among the top mobile phone companies. The Motorola "Buzz" and the "Blend" are the first in a series of hybrid technology mobile phones. They work both with the system running the old wireless network of Nextel Communications Inc. and the different technology running the Sprint network. The phones are a key part of business strategy for the company created in 2005 when Sprint merged with Nextel. After a somewhat lackluster start, mobile TV is generating greater interest in the world of communications. TelecomWeb news break's sister e-letter Tarifica Alert recently detailed the mobile-TV offerings of a selected group of global wireless carriers, including O2 and Vodafone (U.K.), Maxis Communications (Malaysia), Mobile One (Singapore), and Cingular and Sprint Nextel. Vodafone provides the broadest content choice with its top-end "Value Pack" that comprises 30 channels. Sprint Nextel comes in second, with 17 channels offered in its "Sprint Power Vision Ultimate Pack." Maxis is the only provider offering a pay-per-channel tariff as well as a monthly tariff.
Sprint Nextel has selected Chicago and Washington D.C. markets as the first two U.S. metropolitan areas for deployment of its WiMax wireless broadband data service. Sprint Nextel announced progress with its plans for a large scale advanced mobile broadband network designed to bring wireless innovation to devices and new multimedia mobile applications to customers.
The Sprint M610 cellphone by Samsung features - the ultra-thin phone features a 2.0 megapixel camera and includes a MicroSD Memory Card and is enabled with GPS, Bluetooth and Sprint TV. Sprint Nextel is rolling out a new handset from Sanyo that sports 1 GB of internal memory. Separately, the wireless carrier has officially launched N, its nighttime mobile TV network for teens. |
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