Sprint announced today that Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) agreed to be a Premier Sponsor for its 11th annual Open Solutions Conference and will be giving the first 1,500 registered attendees a free Nexus S(TM) 4G from Google(TM) device with one month of service.*

The conference, Nov. 2-4 in Santa Clara, Calif., gives developers, enterprises and entrepreneurs information on creating innovative applications and solutions on the Sprint network. Registration is now open at http://developer.sprint.com/devcon2011 .

NFC focus

Near Field Communication (NFC) is engineering that allows consumers to simply tap their NFC-capable gimmick, such as a radio phone, near an NFC reader to obtain information or to use it as a credit card or mobile wallet. Sprint, together with Google, is the first U.S. carrier to roll out an app — Google Wallet — using NFC capability for purchases in retail stores.

As part of its commitment to environmental duty, the Sprint Open Solutions Conference will be a “green” issue. Attendees will be able to use their Nexus S 4G device to obtain information from sponsors, exhibits and at breakout sessions eliminating the need for brochures and paper materials. Each booth in the convention centre will have an NFC tag or smart poster that will allow participants to tap and receive product or service information.

In addition, throughout the conference space, users will find smart posters and NFC-enabled vending machines to take advantage of the technology and learn more about its uses.

Mobile commerce and NFC sessions

During the conference, Sprint and Google will be leadership several sessions that focus on NFC and mobile commerce:

– Sprint Mobile Commerce — session demonstrating how to leverage mobile commerce within an application or solution. Mobile commerce can help provide a wider product reach, reduce transaction costs and streamline business processes.

– NFC and Mobility — informative session on business opportunities around Google Wallet and utilizing NFC engineering.

– Leveraging NFC Technology — hands-on coding seance on how to incorporate NFC technology into applications and wireless solutions to make them richer and more useful for consumers.

“As an environmental leader in the industry, we are pleased to use NFC engineering and the Nexus S 4G devices to make this our first green conference,” said Kevin McGinnis, vice president-Product, Sprint. “We are excited to see the innovative and useful applications and solutions that developers, business leadership and entrepreneurs create after experiencing the power of NFC technology throughout the Open Solutions Conference.”

Throughout the three-day conference, developers will learn about Sprint’s open enablement strategy, creating applications for 4G and 3D, how Sprint’s machine-to-machine (M2M) ecosystem is generating innovative solutions in transportation and other sectors, go-to-market strategies, approaches to make developers more profitable, and current Sprint tools and capabilities across devices, networks and platforms. The conference volition also lineament sessions focused on the enterprise market, including topics related to trends in business applications and devices, Android strategy, mobile security measures, mobile ecosystem strategies, M2M-specific solutions development, next generation Sprint Direct Connect, managed mobility and cloud services.

Additional events at the Open Solutions Conference include hands-on coding sessions, breakout sessions, event sponsor exhibits, town hall meetings, keynote presentations from manufacture leaders, and networking opportunities for developers. The conference will include 4G and M2M demonstration areas. A preliminary agenda for the Open Solutions Conference is now posted on the Sprint Developer website.

The registration cost is $350. Developers can register and find additional information about the Open Solutions Conference at http://developer.sprint.com/devcon2011 .

Although the device is only mid-range handset, but it runs with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The device packed with an 600 MHz processor, accelerometer, a 3.5-inch HVGA capacitive touching screen, and a virtual keyboard. The device can be purchase for $129.99 without contract.

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Clearwire, Comcast and Sprint will each launching commercial message 4G service in the San Francisco Bay Area in late December, with functionary launch events and retail computer memory openings to follow across the area. Consumers and businesses should expect to see additional mesh expansions throughout the city, and a wide range of self-employed person merchandising and publicizing initiatives.

The 4G client experience from Clearwire, Comcast, and Sprint uses radio 4G technology that differs from Wi-Fi because it provides inspection and repair areas measured in miles, not feet. Outside the 4G inspection and repair area, dual-style 4G/3G modems hold users continually connected by leveraging Sprint’s 3G information network.

Customers in San Francisco volition be able to step-up their mobility and productivity in many slipway: from instantly downloading large files to get work done on the run, to browse the web just like at domicile from across the metropolis, or observation online videos and movies nearly anywhere around townsfolk.

Subscribers will also be able to leverage a wide kitchen stove of 4G devices, including: powder compact USB modems, numerous Intel® embedded WiMAX laptops and netbooks, portable Wi-Fi/4G hotspots, and other wireless devices, all aimed at devising lives in these 4G cities more mobile and efficient.

CLEAR

Clearwire’s 4G service, CLEAR®, is payoff-it-with-you internet inspection and repair for businesses and consumers. Customers volition be able to purchase inspection and repair online at www.clear.com, followed by retail computer memory and dealer openings. For more selective information about pricing, services, devices, and local retail locations, visit www.clear.com.

XFINITY™ Internet 2go

Comcast’s 4G overhaul, branded XFINITY™ Internet 2go, is sold as role of a Fast Pack that bundles the nation’s fastest in-home wired Net with the nation’s fastest wireless Internet. For more selective information, visit www.comcast.com/highspeed2go.

Sprint 4G

Sprint’s 4G service is branded Sprint 4G. Sprint 3G/4G dual mode products available today combining Sprint 3G – a dependable nationwide 3G network – with Sprint 4G, for turbo-charged wireless connectivity in 4G reporting areas. With Sprint 4G, cyclosis video recording, fasting file cabinet downloads and uploads and turbo-charged vane browse ar no longer just abode, situation or umber shop class benefits. Sprint 4G plans ar available at Sprint retail stores, Best Buy stores and topical anesthetic retailers in 4G overhaul areas and Sprint telesales at 1-800-Sprint-1 or online at www.sprint.com/4G.

Clearwire’s 4G Network in 2010

Clearwire’s 4G network is currently available in 56 markets across the United States, including: Merced, Visalia, Modesto and Stockton, Calif.; Wilmington, Del.; Orlando, Daytona Beach and Jacksonville, Fla.; Atlanta and Milledgeville, Ga.; capital of Hawaii and Maui, Hawaii; capital of Idaho, Gem State; Chicago, Ill; Hub of the Universe, Mass.; Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn.; St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo.; The Queen City, Raleigh and Greensboro, N.C.; Las Vegas, Nev.; Baltimore, Md.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; siege of Syracuse and Rochester, N.Y.; capital of Oregon, Portland and Eugene, Ore.; Pittsburgh, City of Brotherly Love, Harrisburg, Reading, House of Lancaster and House of York, Pa.; capital of Rhode Island, R.I.; Nashville, Tenn.; Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Abilene, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Killeen/Temple, Lubbock, Midland/Odesa, Waco and Wichita Falls, Texas; Salt Lake City, Beehive State; Richmond, Va.; Seattle, Tri-Cities, Yakima and Bellingham, Wash.; and telephone exchange Washington, D.C.

By the oddment of 2010, the 4G network is also expected to be available in other major metropolitan areas such as Denver, Miami, Cincinnati and Cleveland.

In offprint announcements, Clearwire and Sprint also announced today the advent launch of overhaul in New House of York City and Los Angeles.

Vero is available now through Sprint’s direct ship sales channels including Business Sales, Telesales (1-800-SPRINT1) and Web gross sales (www.sprint.com). It will be available in all remaining Sprint retail channels start October 10. It costs just $9.99 with a new two-class service correspondence, after a $50 mail-in rebate (price excludes taxes and surcharges).

The handset features a “grippable” soft-blackness finishing and an attractive external 1.3-in OLED glow-thru display for company ID and clock. A 1.3 megapixel photographic camera takes sharp photos that are easily shared exploitation multimedia system electronic messaging (MMS). Once flipped open, Vero’s extra-large key pad enables quick and easy dialing and the large-baptismal font choice can be selected for convenient wake of lineament menus and contacts. With up to 5.2 hours of talk time, Vero is always at the ready.

“So much attention being paid to the ontogenesis marketplace for smartphones, but there remains a robust requirement for an extremely affordable handset like Vero that looks goodness and does a fantastic occupation with the basics like calls and messaging,” said Yasuhiro Oishi, vice president of sales and selling at Kyocera Communications Inc. “Vero’s combining of features and economic value shuffle it ideally suited to seniors, kids and anyone who wants a dependable, affordable communicating tool.”

Starting at $49.99, Sprint’s Everything Messaging plans ar a perfect match for Sanyo Vero customers (excludes taxes and surcharges). Sprint’s Everything Messaging plans include unlimited text, picture- and video recording-electronic messaging.

The family-friendly Vero supports Sprint Family Locator, which uses GPS engineering to locate a phone and displays the localization on an interactive mapping, and includes Parental Controls, a great feature for parents and business managers alike. Weighing in at only 3.4 ounces, Vero includes WAP 2.0 for downloading ringers, games and screensavers; a superscript speakerphone; and Automatic Speech Recognition software (ASR) to dial numbers pool or launch earphone functions. Casual information charges of $0.03/kb will apply to customers not on a plan with unlimited information.

The Samsung Strive will be available on Mar 21 in II color combinations, blackness/silver and empurpled/charcoal. Strive features a 2.0-megapixel camera and a vertical slide designing to reveal a full keyboard for tapping out information on Mobile River Email, minute messaging and social networking apps like AT&T Social Net with repose. The Strive volition be available for $19.99 for a limited metre with a two-class correspondence and after $50 mail-in rabbet.

The GSP enabled Samsung Sunburst featuring a appliance prevention to allow one-touching approach tophone functions like creating a text subject matter, in addition to direct links to mixer networking sites. Sunburst will also be available on Mar 21 for $39.99 after a II-year correspondence and $50 mail-in-rebate.

Pantech Link — An ultra slim and light, full keyboard quick messaging earpiece. Link’s coeval design makes it one of the sharpest in the popular, prevention-stylus family of handsets. With blackness and blue angel accents, Link provides direct access to a playfulness and sought-after kitchen stove of features such as Mobile Email, minute electronic messaging, AT&ere;T Mobile Share, AT&ere;T Social Internet, AT&T Navigator and more. Link volition be available in AT&T stores and online in the advent weeks.

Combining a full touch screen with a vertical sliding keyboard, the Pantech Pursuit plays server to a set of assuredness and unique features via shortcuts on Pantech’s first touch user port for easy, customizable access to apps and features like AT&ere;T Social Internet, AT&T Address Scripture, and mixer networking sites. Available in the summertime in cat valium or blue, the Pursuit volition also support face identification software system and geotagging to get the most out of your pictures.

Together with the four new models, AT&ere;T also offers the following services

AT&ere;T Address Book — Syncs contacts to an online savoir-faire volume so customers can approach and manage their mobile contacts from their French telephone — or their PC. Synchronization occurs automatically when any variety is made, so tangency entropy is always backed up. From the online port, customers tin can import contacts from other Web-based address books, such as personal e-ring armour accounts, as fountainhead as send text messages to their contacts’ mobile numbers. There is no additional charge to use AT&ere;T Address Book

Next Generation Messaging — Brings an advanced messaging experience designed by AT&ere;T to the quick messaging phones family. The familiar text messaging experience is enhanced with group electronic messaging and “reply all” functionality for up to 10 contacts, a threaded conversations data format, a consolidated inbox, and enhanced multi-media display. AT&T designed the service based on research that revealed customers want features that assist with social planning, improved subject matter establishment and better media desegregation — but are also simple to manipulation.

AT&T Mobile River Share — Helps customers quickly transfer photos and videos captured on their mobile earpiece to other destinations and allows customers to manage that content across the mobile and PC screens. With just a few clicks, customers tin can share videos and pictures in full solving, up to 10MB, with their home computer, social networking sites, other people and a personal Net-based storage storage locker from AT&ere;T — all from their wireless handset. Customers can access pictures and videos stored in their AT&ere;T Locker at any metre from any Internet connexion or from their handsets. AT&T Mobile Share is available for $10 per calendar month for 50 media transfers; customers tin can also earnings per use, at $.35 per transfer1. The inspection and repair includes online reposition of 250MB at no commission. Customers can leverage an additional 10GB of reposition for $5 per calendar month. Standard data charges apply for browse the online media storage locker from the mobile handset.