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One of our Apple sources has just informed us that it looks like Apple has finalized the code for its upcoming iOS 4.3 release. The build, we’re told, is 8F190 for those keeping track. Maybe we’ll see this release unify the Verizon iPhone OS-wise as well? We’ll probably see this in the wild next week if we had to bet… Via BRG - Boy Genius Report

Sprint on Thursday announced that it will launch the HTC Arrive next month on March 20th. The carrier teased the device in a series of tweets over the past few days, culminating in a seventh tweet — in honor of Windows Phone 7 — just now. The HTC Arrive is Sprint’s rebranded HTC 7 Pro, one of our favorite Windows Phone 7 devices to date. It features a 3.6-inch WVGA touchscreen, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 16GB of internal storage, a 5-megapixel camera with 720p HD video capture capability and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Sprint’s version of the phone will also carry its standard apps, such as Sprint TV and Sprint Navigation, as well as Microsoft’s updated Windows Phone 7 OS complete with copy/paste support. The HTC Arrive will cost $199.99 with a two-year service contract when it launches next month, and it is available for pre-order beginning today. Sprint’s full press release can be found after the break. First Windows Phone 7 Device for Sprint, HTC Arrive, Available Beginning March 20 for $199.99 New Windows Phone 7 phone brings the Start screen to life with Live Tiles for a glance-and-go experience; offers Xbox LIVE and Zune integration with Microsoft Office Mobile Starting today, customers can pre-order HTC Arrive at any Sprint Store; For more information, visit www.sprint.com/arrive Available from Sprint on March 20, the HTC Arrive™ smartphone (announced by HTC globally as HTC 7 Pro) offers the Windows Phone 7, glance-and-go experience combined with an innovative design that features a sliding full QWERTY keyboard and tilt-up display. Its unique Start screen with Hubs gives easy access to the user’s most valuable content and customizable Live Tiles come to life with real-time updates from the Web. Depending on the app, the Live Tiles might show pending messages and appointments, news and weather, or game notifications and friend status – all continuously refreshed. It also lets the user customize people, apps, playlists, pictures, and other favorites to the Start screen, so they’re available at a single touch. Windows Phone 7 Hubs bring together related content from the Web, applications and services into a single view and offers quick and easy access to the users’ most valuable content. The six Hubs are built on specific themes, including: People Hub brings together relevant content based on the person, including photos and live feeds from social networks. People Hub provides a central place from which to update status or change profile pictures across multiple social networking sites. Skim Facebook®, Windows® Live feeds & photos, then call, text or post to friends and get directions to their place.Games Hub is an on-the-go arcade and the first and only official Xbox LIVE experience on a phone. Play solo, or use the free Xbox LIVE service to match wits with friends wherever they are and view player avatars, profiles and achievements.Pictures Hub houses your entire collection and makes it easy to share pictures to a social network in one step. It can also bring together a user’s photos by integrating with the Web and PC, making the phone the ideal place to view an entire picture and video collection, including photos saved to the phone and pictures friends posted on Facebook or Windows Live. You can even send favorites to friends, or post them to Facebook or Windows Live, all from one place.Music + Videos Hub is an anytime entertainment center. Play a music collection – synced wirelessly from a PC – or stream or download new tunes. There’s even a built-in FM radio and high-resolution screen that’s perfect for watching TV shows, movies or your own video clips. Add an optional Zune Pass subscription to get millions of songs for one low monthly fee. Users can turn their media experience into a social one with Zune Social on a PC and share their media recommendations with like-minded music lovers.Marketplace Hub allows the user to easily discover and load the phone with certified applications and games.Office Hub brings the familiar experience of the world’s leading productivity software to your phone. With access to Microsoft Office, OneNote and SharePoint Workspace all in one place, users can easily read, edit and share documents.HTC Arrive key features include: Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon Processor3.6-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen with multi-touch capabilityFull HTML Web browser with Bing Search and Maps for turn by turn directions, address mapping and even street level views via voice search or typingWindows Phone Marketplace offers a single view to showcase apps, games, music and premium Xbox LIVE gamesCorporate email (Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync®), personal (POP & IMAP) email and text messaging5MP camera with flash, autofocus and digital zoom and 720p HD camcorder. The camera button will snap photos fast, even if the phone is locked.16GB internal memory for storing pictures, videos and large filesWi-Fi® (802.11 b/g/n)HTC Arrive will be available beginning March 20, for $199.99 with a new two-year service agreement or eligible upgrade and after a $100 mail-in rebate (taxes not included) in all Sprint retail channels, including the Web (http://www.sprint.com) and Telesales (1-800-SPRINT1). Beginning today, customers can pre-order HTC Arrive at any participating Sprint Store with the purchase of a $50 Sprint gift card. Customers who pre-order HTC Arrive will have their name added to the Device Wait List and be contacted to set up an appointment to complete their purchase beginning on Sunday, March 20. Through the pre-order process, customers will have peace of mind knowing they are able to get the device they want and receive the full retail experience, including Sprint’s Ready Now customer service experience. Sprint customers get more with unlimited data plans on the Sprint Network. Sprint offers real simplicity, value and savings versus competitors, making it easy for customers to get the most out of their phones without using a calculator to tally up costs or worrying about how much data they’ve used. HTC Arrive requires activation on one of Sprint’s Everything Data plans, plus a required $10 Premium Data add-on charge for smartphones. Sprint’s Everything Data plan with Any Mobile, AnytimeSM includes unlimited Web, texting and calling to and from any mobile in America while on the Sprint network, starting at just $69.99 per month plus required $10 Premium Data add-on charge – a savings of $39.99 per month vs. Verizon’s comparable plan with unlimited talk, text and Web (excluding Verizon’s Southern California plan; pricing excludes surcharges and taxes). Sprint Everything Data plans qualify for automatic enrollment in the Sprint PremierSM loyalty program1. Existing Sprint customers can switch to an Everything Data plan without extending their service agreement. New lines of service require a two-year service agreement. 1To qualify for Sprint Premier Silver customers must have a three-month average monthly recurring charge (MRC) of individual plans of $69.99 – $89.98 Via BRG - Boy Genius Report

The day hath cometh. The world’s first Honeycomb (Android 3.0) tablet has officially hit the streets and is ready for purchase. You can run to your local retailer and pick yourself up a shiny, new XOOM for $599 with a signed two-year contract or $799 contract free. Interested parties can read our thoughts on the Moto’s first tablet here, and if you go and pick one up for yourself… be sure to swing back by and let us know what you think! Happy XOOM’ing. Read Via BRG - Boy Genius Report

In a note to investors on Wednesday, RBC Capital Markets Managing Director Mike Abramsky reiterated the firm’s confidence in Apple’s upcoming next-generation iPad. RBC predicts that Apple will sell 30 million iPad 2 units between April 2011 and March 2012. Apple will unveil the iPad 2 at a media event next week, and the tablet is expected to launch in late March or early April. Abramsky discusses expected hardware specifications for the iPad 2 in his note, which include a faster 1.2GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, a rear camera, a front-facing camera for FaceTime video chat and a thinner, lighter case. He also notes that initial supply may be constrained due to component availability, however, which jibes with our earlier report. Via BRG - Boy Genius Report

As many of you know I have a few forums covering a variety of topics. I have enabled a system that will allow you to login to any of the sites in my network with your login information that you use here. Some of you have accounts on some of the other sites. If you signed up at those sites with the same email address as here then your login was merged so when you login it will use the info from here. If you have never joined any of the other sites in the network and if you use your login from here you will have to edit your profile. The only thing that this universal login does is allow you to login to any site on the network without going through the registration process. Here are the sites that you can login to now: Forum SEO Help Just BS Chat Forum And of course if you are a member of any of those communities and haven't yet joined this forum then your login from there will get you logged in here. I will be adding this to the last 4 sites soon. You can keep up to date on what the sites in the network are by visiting Schwarz Network the main site. If you have any questions post them here and I'll try my best to answer them.

I've been a Sprint customer for a long time. I always had a Nextel. My contract was long expired so I decided to get a smartphone. I did my research and decided to stay with Sprint since for all the years I was with them the phone always worked and I only ever found one area where service was limited. I did consider an iPhone, but, I had to cancel my AT&T landline service because it was garbage so I figured ATT&T mobile service wouldn't be much better. Once the decision was made to stay with Sprint I took my old Nextel and traded it in for a HTC EVO 4G. Since then I have crashed it, hacked it and abused the heck out of it and it keeps working like a champ. I am getting ready to install Gingerbread on it. So what's everyone think of Sprint as a mobile carrier?

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