Phone Upgrade Plans: Sprint vs. AT&T vs. Verizon vs. T-Mobile

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6 Best Sprint Smartphones

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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Update Rolls Out For Sprint Samsung Galaxy S2

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Sprint Starts Rolling Out Galaxy S III Jelly Bean Update

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Sprint Scooping Up Clearwire Could Result in Nation’s Fastest 4G

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LG Viper 4G LTE Launching from Sprint Later This Month

Attention Sprint fans who’ve been waiting for LTE.  Today, the company announced the release date of its first-ever 4G LTE phone, the LG Viper.  This announcement makes the arrival of Sprint 4G LTE less of a dream and more of an impending reality. This mid-range handset will be available later this month for $99 (after a two-year contract and $50 mail-in rebate), with pre-orders starting on Thursday, April 12th.  

Although this is a huge first step for Sprint’s 4G LTE  rollout plan, the only cities due to get LTE service any time soon are Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and San Antonio, none of which will receive the service until mid-year. Viper owners in other cities will have to wait even longer to get LTE speeds.

No matter where they use the Viper, owners can feel good about  its eco-friendly features.  The Viper’s body is made of 50% recycled plastics and it has recyclable, glue-free packaging. Its tree-hugging attributes earned the LG Viper 4G LTE the ULE Platinum Certification and the CarbonFree Certification. This is the third eco-friendly phone released by Sprint and LG. The first was the LG Remarq, followed by the LG Rumor.

The phone will have a 4-inch, 800 x 480 display, a 5-MP rear camera, a VGA front camera, a 4GB microSD card (expandable to 32GB), 7 hours of battery life and 50GB of free cloud storage. The Viper will be powered by Android 2.3 Gingerbread running on a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor.

With an NFC chip on-board, the Viper will be Sprint’s second phone with  Google Wallet integration users can use for mobile payments. a free app called The phone also comes preloaded with “Life’s Good Fairytales” — a story creation app that allows users  to take photos, capture sounds and edit those elements to create an adventure. Other Android users will be able to purchase this app for $0.99 starting on April 27th.

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Sprint and HTC Collaboration Event April 4th, HTC One X on Way?

Sprint and HTC sent out invitations today for an April 4th press event the two say will show off their, “latest collaboration.” Now what could these two be announcing that warrants its own press conference? Well, according to TechnoBuffalo, which cites a, “reliable Sprint source, the event will serve as the big unveiling for Sprint’s version of the much anticipated HTC One X. It could be called the “Jet,” according to s4gru, and possibly launch June 10th.

If the rumors are true, then the One X could launch in June, which is right about the time Sprint is expected to flip the switch on its 4G LTE network. An AT&T version of the phone has already been announced, but instead of using Nvidia’s hulking quad-core Tegra 3 processor, that phone will instead ship with a dual-core Snapdragon chip.

We spent some hands-on time with the One X at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and were blown away. The 4.7-inch phone’s 1280 x 720 Super LCD 2 display was a sight to behold. On top of its gorgeous display, the Android 4.0-powered One X packs Beats Audio, as well as HTC’s Sense 4.

But the real reason to get excited about the One X is the freakishly fast 0.7-second Image Sense camera. HTC equipped the phone with a dedicated camera co-processor, allowing it to snap pictures in an instant. Intel’s Atom Z2460-powered smartphone can pop off 10 pictures in the same 0.7-seconds, but it’s not close to shipping.

We’ll keep you updated on Sprint and HTC’s announcement when it happens early next month.

via TechnoBuffalo

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Select Android Devices To Get Sprint Push-To-Talk App

You may have purchased your first cell phone for its elemental function of being able to take phone calls, but is that the main reason you own one now? With text messaging, food delivery apps, and social networking right in the palm of your hand, today’s technology has made it wonderfully possible (debatable) to avoid talking to another person on your phone in real time. Now, Sprint has made it even easier to evade direct and lengthy communication with the revival of an old service, Direct Connect Now, in the form of a new push-to-talk app — in other words, they’re bringing back walkie-talkie chatting.

Sprint Direct Connect Now is slated to debut first on the Samsung Transform Ultra, and will be downloadable as an Android app. It will give users access to Sprint’s CDMA-based Direct Connect network to let them chirp at their family and friends — holding up to 20 conversations at once — even minus the all-but-defunct iDEN-compatible hardware of yore. (The iDEN network Sprint scooped up when it acquired Nextel is actually 2G technology, which means voice and data can’t be operated on it simultaneously.)

While the Samsung Transform Ultra is set to get push-to-talk first, Sprint may offer the feature on their higher-end Android phones soon afterward, since it’s entirely software-based. Who knows? The glory days of walkie talkies might just be making a comeback.

via The Verge

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Carrier Support Showdown: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon Tested

Cellphone shoppers generally judge wireless carriers based on their networks’ speed, size and—above all—reliability. But reliability extends to customer service. Will your carrier be able to help when something goes wrong? And can you get your questions answered in a timely fashion?

With that in mind, we performed a survey of the country’s four largest service providers—AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless—to determine which offers the best service and which could use some lessons in customer appreciation.

To get a complete view of each carrier’s customer support options, we visited two of their brick-and-mortar stores, placed two phone calls to their tech-support hotlines and tried to connect with them via their Web services. For our tests, we used purchased phones (instead of review units) to help ensure we received genuine user experiences.

Our test beds included an AT&T Motorola Atrix 4G, a Sprint EVO 4G, a T-Mobile G2x and a Verizon Wireless Motorola Droid X. To ensure our testing was fair, we posed the same three questions to each carrier’s service representatives: “How can I tether my phone to my notebook,” “How can I upload photos from my phone to Facebook?” and “How do I improve my phone’s battery life?”

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