Paging Apple's legal department. Sprint announced the first WiMax smart phone Tuesday, the HTC Evo 4G, which runs on Google's Android platform. It's the first phone designed to run on Clearwire's 4G WiMax network. It's also a clear challenge to Apple, which recently sued HTC over Android.

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Sprint's Android 4G Smartphone Evo Aims For Apple originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:00:00.

Filed Under: Company News, Technology, Google , Motorola, Sprint Nextel Corp., Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, HTC, Clearwire

Making good on its pledge to get help to Haiti immediately, Verizon Wireless advanced $2.98 million in mobile donations that its customers have made to the Red Cross on Friday. Since the earthquake hit Haiti earlier this week, wireless companies have received a flood of donations via text messages. Typically, such donations can take up to three months to be delivered. But as DailyFinance reported yesterday, Verizon Wireless had been looking for a way to "get this money into the pipeline ASAP."

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Verizon Delivers $3 Million in Subscriber Text Donations for Haiti Relief originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:30:00.

Filed Under: Company News, Sprint Nextel Corp., AT&T, Verizon

The long-awaited fourth generation wireless network called Long Term Evolution, or LTE, is expected to be released by year-end in up to 30 markets by Verizon Wireless (VZ). But if you were at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, you didn't have to wait to see how this next-generation cellular network will work.

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Verizon's New Network Could Bring Higher Speeds, Higher Fees originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:57:00.

Filed Under: Technology, Sprint Nextel Corp., AT&T, Verizon