Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Sprint embraces WiFi in smartphones - FierceBroadbandWireless

Sprint Nextel is requiring its smartphone suppliers to add WiFi capability to their devices for the carrier going forward, and the operator announced it will release an updated version of the BlackBerry Tour next year that will include WiFi.

"Sprint is embracing WiFi in all its major devices going forward," Jeff Clemow, the carrier's director of business product marketing, told FierceWireless...