Some of the better-known pre-paid carriers are getting ready for something big. It appears Boost and Virgin Mobile are partnering with Samsung for an event in New York City on August 22nd to announce some “big mobile news”. Anything beyond that is unknown, but we’re sure a new phone is in store — a pre-paid Galaxy S III, perhaps? Either way, it… Read more
Have you ever wanted to make one app stop rotating without constantly toggling auto rotate in settings? If you have notification toggles, that makes the issue better, but not ideal. What you need is PerApp. It lets you toggle orientation lock, volume boost, and screen timeout length individually for each app. And if you have root, you can also adjust… Read more
Sprint has been a pretty good parent company to its subsidiaries. Both its prepaid counterparts, Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile, have been getting some pretty sweet phones to add to their arsenal. Both carriers got an Evo (Design on Boost/3D (V) on Virgin), and now it looks like Boost will be receiving one of Sprint’s more recent flagships, the Epic 4G… Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbeR6gfO8Y4&feature=player_embedded#! Dutch company NXP is usually known for their NFC products, but they unveiled something new and quite innovative today. It’s an audio chip that will improve the sound quality of the micro speakers in mobile devices. It’s a chip that will just amplify the audio, push it up to five times… Read more
Boost and Virgin Mobile customers have two handsets to look forward to next week, with both of Sprint’s prepaid brands tipped to launch high end devices from HTC. As Pocketnow first reported, a version of the EVO 3D known as the EVO V 4G is prepared to hit Virgin, while Boost will get the EVO Design 4G (name supposedly intact). They will be the first two… Read more
Sprint released their first quarter 2012 numbers this morning reporting a net loss of $863 million dollars, while adding more than 1.1 million new customers to their network. Sprint’s new subscriber growth netted 263,000 postpaid customers in the first quarter of 2012 alone. Sprint said they are still on track with their LTE network, expected to launch… Read more
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