Mobile Phone News

Samsung Epic 4Gs earmarked for product advocates at Sprint retail locations — folks whose job it is to know everything about key devices — apparently started to roll in on Monday of this week. So the good news is that your local store Truly possibly does have an Epic 4G lying around somewhere, but the bad news is that unless you get close enough to the advocate to pickpocket it, you can’t have one just yet; we’re told the retail units should be shipped “within the week.” On a related note, our tipster also tells us that Sprint is geared up to roll out WiMAX in Boston the week after the Epic 4G launch, so that should be a nice little foil to the LTE trial Big Red’s been running there this year.

Samsung Epic 4Gs earmarked for product advocates at Sprint retail locations — folks whose job it is to know everything about key devices — apparently started to roll in on Monday of this week. So the good news is that your local store Truly possibly does have an Epic 4G lying around somewhere, but the bad news is that unless you get close enough to the advocate to pickpocket it, you can’t have one just yet; we’re told the retail units should be shipped “within the week.” On a related note, our tipster also tells us that Sprint is geared up to roll out WiMAX in Boston the week after the Epic 4G launch, so that should be a nice little foil to the LTE trial Big Red’s been running there this year.

Great news: the original Android 2.1 firmware for Sprint’s HTC Hero was recently rooted. Bad news: Sprint and HTC were entirely too quick about fixing it, pushing out an over-the-air update this weekend that patches up the so-called “security vulnerability” without a new root yet in sight. Owners of rooted devices are naturally being advised not to pull the trigger on the new build at this time; too bad HTC couldn’t have shown this kind of hustle with the 2.1 upgrade in the first place, isn’t it?