TS2R Wireless News: Verizon LTE-Advanced Advances, Samsung Epic 4G Touch, Sprint Premier Gold Tarnished and Sprint 14 Day Return

TS2R Wireless News.jpgTS2R Wireless News from Wireless and Mobile News:

Full news stories today include the reviews of Droid Bionic benchmark tests, HTC Rhyme (Bliss) photo,  Sprint's network ready for iPhone, AT&T LTE network launch and the profitiability of an HP TouchPad revival.

Here's the news that is too short to report:

  • Verizon Wireless' Praveen Atreya announced that Verizon's next step will be LTE-Advanced.
  • Reminder: The Samsung Epic 4G Touch will go on sale from Sprint, tomorrow.
  • The Sprint Premier program has ended as well as Premier Gold customers getting annul updgrades (which could be a sign of an iPhone coming to Sprint) ending at the end of 2012.
  • Another sign of the iPhone times is that Sprint has shortened it return turn-around from 30 to 14 days for new lines of service and upgrades effective 9/16.  Verizon shortened its return policy days before it launched its iPhone.
  •  Boost announced the Sasmung Transform Ultra QWERTY slider will go on sale 10/7.