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Sprint has gone ahead and killed its exclusive Nexus smartphone, the Nexus S 4G. According to The Verge, Sprint has confirmed the news and the device has vanished from the company’s website, never to be seen again. This means that consumers who want to get a hold of Sprint’s WiMax-powered Nexus must now do so [...]
Last week, Sprint started to roll out Android 4.0 for the Sprint Nexus S 4G. Problem is, many users still haven’t seen the update arrive for installation. Luckily, there is an easy way to install the update manually, without having to wipe anything on your phone. A user on the Android Central forum found the [...]
Sprint has announced that the Nexus S 4G Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update is rolling out now, an update that will come with a host of features and improvements for owners of the carrier’s Google experience device. The announcement was made on Sprint’s community forum and it details exactly what’s coming with the upgrade [...]
Google had promised users who buy into their own branded Nexus line of smartphones that Nexus products will be among the earliest products to get software updates. Unfortunately, for Google’s Nexus S and Nexus S 4G owners, the wait for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is still happening and with devices from other third-party manufacturers–like [...]
While Sprint has still has not confirmed exactly when it will be rolling out its upcoming 4G LTE network, all signs seem to be pointing to April as the month in which the Now Network launches its high-speed cellular network. The first sign was a contest for its first 4G LTE phone ending at the [...]
Sprint is getting the ball rolling as it preps a number of its Android smartphones to be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. After news that the Now Network was working to ready the delectable frozen desert for the Epic 4G Touch, a Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone with 4G WiMax support and a [...]
If you’re the proud owner of Sprint’s Nexus S 4G, you’ve probably been wondering when the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich would start rolling out for your device. Unfortunately, we don’t have the exact answer to that question but now that an official Android 4.0 ROM for the device has made it onto XDA-forums, we [...]
There have been reports by users in communications with Sprint customer service, retail stores, and online chat that the carrier is willing and capable of activating a Verizon Galaxy Nexus on its own 3G Now Network. As Sprint and Verizon both operate the same 2G and 3G airwaves on the same spectrum, the move wouldn’t [...]
Google promised that the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Samsung-made Nexus S would roll out soon after the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and sure enough, just a day after Verizon launched its 4G LTE model, Google made good on that promise as Android 4.0 is now rolling out for the [...]
Owners of the Google Samsung Nexus S will have just a little longer to wait for their Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update as Google is now testing the delectable frozen treat on Nexus S smartphones owned by its employees. In Android tradition, updates are deployed first to employees before reaching broader worldwide audiences, and [...]
Google and Samsung have both confirmed that an update for Sprint’s Nexus S 4G has begun rolling out and that the update will be bringing support for Google Wallet, a service that it announced all the way back in May of this year. The update is rolling out now over-the-air (OTA) so if you haven’t [...]
Best Buy has a one day sale planned for tomorrow, Wednesday August 16th and it will have three Android phones up for free, a list that includes AT&T’s Motorola Atrix 4G, the WiMax-enabled Sprint Nexus S 4G, and last year’s Verizon Galaxy S device, the Samsung Fascinate. Of course, free in the smartphone world usually [...]
Been looking to get your hands on the Nexus S? I don’t blame you, it’s a fantastic phone. You know what else is fantastic? The fact that Best Buy is offering all three versions of the device for free tomorrow. That’s right, the newly released AT&T model, the Nexus S 4G for Sprint, and the [...]
Sprint and Samsung are beginning to roll out the delayed Nexus S 4G software update. The update corrects a number of bugs, but the biggest improvement may be seen in speedier 4G WiMax upload and download speeds. However, not all is good news with the update. While the faster mobile broadband speeds are a welcomed [...]
If you own a Nexus S 4G on Sprint, you’re in for a little treat starting next Monday on July 25th. Sprint has just announced that Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread is going to be rolling out that day and it appears that it’s going to bring some pretty awesome improvements along with it. What updates exactly? [...]
Yesterday was supposed to be the day that a sizable update to Sprint’s Nexus S 4G rolled out from the shadows and onto devices across the United States. Obviously, that roll out never happened and now we know why. It was delayed. Android Central has acquired a piece of evidence that reveals that Sprint had [...]
It looks like the Google Nexus S 4G Android Gingerbread smartphone for Sprint will be getting an OTA software update come this July 11th that will bring with it some new features, one of which is NFC support. The update, called GRJ90, will add these features to the 4G WiMax smartphone: Enables the NFC Secure [...]
Yesterday was a glorious day if you happen to be an owner of a Google Nexus S, HTC Desire S, Sony Ericsson Xperia neo, or Sony Ericsson Xperia pro. Why? Because Skype released Skype 2.0 for Android which brought video calling to those four phones. Skype promised it would be bringing support for more phones [...]
Apple didn’t announce a new iPhone at this year’s WWDC keynote and that has left many current iPhone owners, myself included, in a strange position. After two years, contracts with AT&T will soon be up and all of us will be looking for a new phone to get. Many of you will want to wait [...]
If you want to get your hands on a brand new smartphone with WiMax 4G speeds and the latest version of the Android 2.3 Gingerbread, look no further than the Nexus S 4G from Sprint. If you want to get that phone for an extremely cheap price, look no further than Amazon which has it [...]
The race is on in the mobile wallet and digital payment space with NFC adoption to kick in full gear. Sprint and Google are teaming up, and sources tell Bloomberg that the two companies may be ready to reveal its digital payment service as soon as Thursdasy, May 26th. When the service rolls out initially, [...]
If you own a Nexus S, run it on T-Mobile’s network and haven’t been able to get Google Talk’s video chat feature that arrived with the recent Android 2.3.4 update, well, you’re not alone.As a matter of fact, T-Mobile is blocking you from using the feature on its 3G network. Engadget has confirmed that the [...]
After having made the Google Nexus S 4G available for order this past Sunday, Sprint is already beginning to roll out a maintenance update for the Android 2.3 Gingerbread device. The Maintentance Release GR22 is being delivered as an over the air software update and brings a number of enhancements related to the device’s security, [...]
Today is May 8th and that means that today is launch day for Sprint’s WiMax version of the Nexus S, the Nexus S 4G, which has finally gone on sale after getting announced back in March at CTIA 2011. On Friday, we learned that some Sprint stores had already started selling the device ahead of [...]
The Nexus S 4G for Sprint isn’t officially supposed to arrive until May 8th but that apparently hasn’t stopped some Sprint stores from coughing up the goods early. It appears that a couple of lucky souls were able to waltz into their local Sprint store locations and procure Sprint’s latest WiMax offering a full two [...]
Google’s Nexus Twitter account has tweeted that it has a surprise in store for Nexus owners today. Unfortunately the tweet is light on the details and heavy on the tease so right now we can only wonder what they have in store for us. An easy guess would be something to do with the Sprint [...]
Sprint has finally made the release date and pricing of the upcoming WiMax enabled Nexus S 4G official announcing that the device will be headed to shelves on May 8th with a familiar price tag of $199 which will come after a new two-year contract is signed. We had heard previously that the Nexus S [...]
Back in December, Google announced that the Android 2.3 Gingerbread would follow Android 2.2 Froyo as the next operating system coming to Android OS smartphones. As of today, April 21st, there are only 3 phones that currently boast official Gingerbread leaving many device owners to wonder: Am I going to be getting Android 2.3 Gingerbread? [...]
Best Buy’s Sprint Nexus S 4G pre-order page has gone live and those looking to get their hands on a WiMax enabled Nexus S are able to do so right now. Before today, there was a ‘coming soon’ button that adorned the Sprint Nexus S 4G pre-order page but alas, that button is now gone [...]
According to evidence procured by Android Central, Sprint’s version of the Nexus S entitled the Nexus S 4G will be hitting shelves across the United States in just over three weeks on Sunday, April 18th. The Nexus S 4G is currently available up for pre-order at Sprint retail stores with customers having to pony up [...]
Sprint and Samsung have alerted the world that their upcoming Nexus S 4G, a WiMax version of the original Nexus S that came out in December, is now available for pre-order. Over at Sprint’s Nexus S splash page, there is a little bubble announcing the fact that the upcoming device is available for order at [...]
There have been rumors for a couple of weeks regarding a WiMax-enabled Nexus S for Sprint and now, the wait is finally over. Earlier today, Sprint made the Nexus S 4G official, a move that had been expected at CTIA but instead comes a day early. Sprint’s version of the Nexus S is going to [...]
With CTIA a few shorts week away, rumors are speculating about what Sprint will launch at the trade show. The carrier had launched the HTC EVO 4G as the flagship Android 2.2 smartphone a year ago at the Spring CTIA show, and this year, the Now Network may be getting the Nexus S 4G. According [...]