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Sprint reported about the apparition of the first of Sprint Nextel combo phones. The Motorola ic502 was launched.

The ic502 uses Sprint's CDMA 1xRTT network for voice calls and data connections, but Nextel's iDen network for walkie-talkie service. Packed in the rugged clamshell body, it has the 65k color display, GPS, JAVA .

Motorola i880 was presented by Sprint Nextel on its iDEN Nextel network, the handset being an update to the Motorola i870 .

Motorola i880 includes the following features:

• 176 x 220 pixel 262k color display
• microSD card slot (64MB card included)
• 2.0 megapixel camera

Sprint Nextel Corp. has officially launched CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A technology in San Diego market much sooner than it was initially expected. Also Sprint Nextel is going to come to 21 more markets by the end of the year. The faster network is supposed to increase revenues as well as improve new applications such as video telephony, multi-user video conferencing, real-time gaming, video streaming and high-performance push-to-talk service.

Sprint Nextel announced today that it plans to use WiMax technology to power its next-generation high-speed wireless network.

The Sprint Nextel 4G mobility network will use the company's extensive 2.5 GHz spectrum holdings, which cover 85 percent of the households in the top 100 U.S. markets.

To access that network, Sprint Nextel will work with Intel, Motorola and Samsung to incorporate WiMAX technology for advanced wireless communications and help make chipsets widely available for new consumer electronics devices.