Device Arena

Sprint is helping give mom a wireless makeover for Mother’s Day with the attractive Red LG Lotus and affordable family plan pricing.

Sprint is offering 50 percent off the new Red LG Lotus in time for Mother’s Day. Moms can look hip and stay connected to their kids as the LG Lotus has a full QWERTY keyboard housed in the most unique design in the industry. The device is not just fashionable but also very practical. Using Sprint’s patented One Click user interface, moms will be able to easily learn how to use all the features of their phone and stay in touch with the entire family.

With Sprint’s Ready Now service, mom can make an appointment for a “wireless makeover,” just as easily as making one at the spa. Sprint revolutionized the wireless retail experience by launching Ready Now at Sprint stores last fall. Sprint has trained and committed its retail associates to work one-on-one with customers to personalize phones, set up features and demonstrate how their phone works. Customers can work with Sprint retail associates to learn more about how they can fully leverage the strengths of their device on Sprint’s Mobile Broadband Network. After a Ready Now makeover, mom will feel as relaxed with her technology as she does after leaving the spa.

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Palm and Sprint today introduced the Palm® Treo™ 800w, Sprint’s newest smartphone with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. Designed for business users who depend on their smartphones for high-speed productivity on the go, the Palm Treo 800w operates on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network(1) and comes out of the box with support for EV-DO Rev. A data speeds, WiFi for data and GPS capabilities.(2)

The Treo 800w is Palm’s most business-friendly phone yet. IT departments can simplify infrastructure and lower costs with a direct connection to Microsoft Exchange Server, giving users up-to-date email, contacts, calendars and access to other productivity applications. Palm designed the Treo 800w for easy-to-use mobility with a full QWERTY keyboard, five-way navigation and one-touch buttons to the most-used applications, making it a smartphone people want to use.

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Building on the success of the popular Katana family of handsets, Katana LX by SANYO brings a sophisticated look and feel to the Sprint Vision device portfolio. This slim device has an elegant mirrored finish with a translucent OLED LCD glowing through to subtly show time or caller ID. Katana LX by SANYO is family-friendly and affordable offering access to the essential features users need most on their wireless phone. Key features include Web and email access, VGA camera, speakerphone, integrated Bluetooth® technology, and large, colorful internal LCD screen. Katana LX by SANYO is available in three fashionable color options: Pacific Blue, Elegant Pink, and Liquid Graphite.

Ahead of CTIA WIRELESS 2008, Verizon Wireless, the owner and operator of the nation’s most reliable wireless voice and data network, today announced the XV6900 will be available in April through Verizon Wireless business sales channels, at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com. The Verizon Wireless XV6900 is a stylish, compact and versatile touch-screen phone, optimized for easy navigation with the swipe of a finger and runs on Verizon Wireless’ network, which gives the pure white XV6900 fast Internet and e-mail connectivity.

The XV6900 from Verizon Wireless takes touch to the next level with smooth navigation. Whether customers are accessing local weather reports, navigating to the Internet, flipping through photos, or one-touch dialing of loved ones, they can interact with a myriad of the XV6900’s features with just a flick of their fingers.

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Ericsson and Napster announce the largest European hosting contract for Napster Mobile, with O2 UK.

O2 UK’s customers will be able to search, browse, preview and purchase full-length tracks from Napster’s immense catalog of over 5 million tracks and play them on their mobile handsets and PCs.

The Napster Mobile service contains several sophisticated features, including a recommendation engine that makes content recommendations based upon each consumer’s musical taste, and dual delivery, a feature that sends a copy of the content purchased on the handset to the customer’s PC.

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