Epic 4G Coming August 31 for $249

For everybody waiting for Sprint's next 4G phone, the Epic 4g now has a release date and pricing. The phone will be released on August 31 for $249 with a mail-in rebate and new two year contract. The phone, a part of the Galaxy S series from Samsung, features a slide out QWERTY keyboard, Android 2.1, and a Super AMOLED display. The phone will also pick up your 4g signals whenever you are in a service area. The phone will also let you chat with your EVO owning friends with a front facing VGA camera in addition to the normal 5 megapixel camera. It also has a mobile hotspot function for five devices and a Samsung 1 GHz processor. Sprint says that the phone will get Froyo (Android 2.2) within the coming months. Engadget/

Sprint Subscribers Really Liked the World Cup

If you didn't hear about it, the World Cup was on earlier this summer, believe it or not. And if you were a mobile viewer of the World Cup, chances are that you were watching it on a Sprint phone. That's right, Sprint customers were the number one viewers of the World Cup from a mobile device. About 700,000 people watched the games from ESPN's channel on Sprint TV. The most watched games of the world cup were USA v Ghana, USA v Algeria, and the Netherlands v Spain final match. The Sprint article that the information is from also posts some interesting facts about other most watched shows, some of which are the 2008 Presidential Inauguration, the Michael Jackson Memorial, and a Dallas v New Orleans NFL game. (Sprint)

Sprint Reports Great Second Quarter Results

Sprint has recently released information on the second quarter of 2010, and things are definitely looking up for the company. Sprint gained a total of 111,000 subscribers during the quarter, marking a turn around from the customer loss of past quarters. Although there were large gains made in CDMA subscribers, the iDen network lost over 400,0000 customers. Sprint also reported their best ever churn rate for the company, at about 1.85 percent. Postpaid, or contract customers, increased by 136,000 customers while prepaid growth was still good but not as strong as before. It seems like Sprint is finally looking up in terms of subscribers, and hopefully they can continue to gain more subscribers to the network. (Sprint)

Sprint 4G Coverage Now In Delaware, Florida, and Michigan

For everybody out there waiting to use your Evo on a 4G network, you might just be covered. Sprint has launched WiMax in Wilmington, Delaware, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Jacksonville, Florida on August second. They have also extended their coverage in California to the cities of Modesto and Stockton. Although the new coverage areas are a great addition to the network, Sprint hasn't announced coverage in other major cities around the nation, including San Francisco and New York, although people have reported their 4G devices detecting and connecting to a 4G network in isolated areas of the city. Hopefully we will see coverage in a few more cities by the time the Epic 4G hits the market. (Sprint)

Sprint Finally Doing Refurbished?

If you have ever looked for a phone on an AT&T website, you will notice that most models also have a refurbished version of the phone. When you refurbish a cell phone, you replace the used/broken parts and replace them with new ones, which gives you a phone that is something between used and new. Whenever you buy a refurbished phone, you get big savings passed on to you. Although Sprint has only done refurbished and used phones for replacements, they now have a refurbished Palm Centro on their website. The deal is online only, and you can't buy the phone new anymore, but they are starting to make refurbished models out of the popular phone. Hopefully, we are going to start seeing some more refurbished phones on the site, especially ones that have a new model available too. (Sprint)