Following its preliminary publication, Sprint has today shared its final report for Q3 2014. The US carrier managed to bag just short of one million new connections, boasting “significant progress on building a consistent and reliable network”. It’s not all good news, however. As the recent Super Bowl ad teaser revealed, the company hopes you’re watching.

Following its preliminary publication, Sprint has today shared its final report for Q3 2014. The US carrier managed to bag just short of one million new connections, boasting “significant progress on building a consistent and reliable network”. It’s not all good news, however. As the recent Super Bowl ad teaser revealed, the company hopes you’re watching.

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Following its preliminary publication, Sprint has today shared its final report for Q3 2014. The US carrier managed to bag just short of one million new connections, boasting “significant progress on building a consistent and reliable network”. It’s not all good news, however. As the recent Super Bowl ad teaser revealed, the company hopes you’re watching.

First, the good stuff. The report shows the total new connections up 42 percent year-on-year, adding 30,000 postpaid, 410,000 prepaid and 527,000 wholesale (via Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile brands) customers in the quarter alone. The postpaid gross additions is the highest in three years and 4G LTE coverage has reached over 270 million customers. Now for the bad.

The new additions came at a cost. Sprint reported an operating loss of $2.5 billion (including non-cash charges of $2.1 billion; EBITDA of $1.04 billion), compared to an operating loss of $576 million in the year-ago quarter. Revenue also took a serious blow, falling 1.8 percent to $8.97 billion. Also, while the company sure added new connections, there were also account holders who opted to emigrate. All 205,000 of them.

While its aggressive marketing clearly appears to be attracting new customers, the company’s earnings are starting to feel the marketing strain. Check out the full report on Sprint’s website if you’re interested to read through results in full.

Source: Sprint

Just a quick heads up for you folk that have been waiting to order the red BlackBerry Passport over in the UK. Online retailer, Clove, now have the red variant available and in stock ready for you to order.

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The popular messaging app WeChat for Windows Phone was updated today. Version 6.0.2.1 includes a way for users to record and send short video messages to friends. The app’s last big update was in December, which revamped the user interface.

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This how-to is part of our iOS Help feature, where every week I try and help you fix the problems you’re having with your iPhones and iPads. If you have a question or need help with something iOS related that you just can’t figure out, I encourage you to drop a question in our iMore forums or email ioshelp@imore.com!

This week’s question comes to us from William:

My keyboard shortcuts no longer sync with my iPad.

Any ideas how to fix this?

William, you definitely aren’t the only person having issues with keyboard shortcuts, particularly after updating to iOS 8. Whether they’re just not syncing or you find them disappearing from a particular device altogether, here are some suggestions on how to get them back in working order again!

1. Turn off predictive text

Some folks have had luck simply turning off the predictive text feature in the Settings app. It’s more of a workaround than an actual solution, but it’s the easiest one to rule out first. To turn off predictive text, just follow these steps:

1. Launch the Settings app.
2. Tap on General.
3. Tap on Keyboards.
4. Turn Off the option for Predictive.
5. Reboot your iPhone or iPad and try using keyboard shortcuts again.

If keyboard shortcuts are back to normal, you’re good to go. If not, continue on.

2. Toggle Documents & Data on and off

If you don’t have iCloud Drive turned on and you’re not on iOS 8.1 or above, you will still see a Documents & Data option under iCloud. If you are on iOS 8.1 or newer, you will not see Documents & Data, so skip to step 3 now.

1. Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.
2. Tap on iCloud.
3. Tap on Documents & Data.
4. Turn Off the option for Documents & Data.
5. Reboot your iPhone or iPad and turn the option back On.
6. Test to see if your keyboard shortcuts are now working.

3. Toggle iCloud Drive on and off

If you are using iCloud Drive already, complete this step.

1. Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.
2. Tap on iCloud.
3. Tap on iCloud Drive.
4. Turn iCloud Drive Off.
5. Reboot your iPhone.
6. Turn iCloud Drive back On and test keyboard shortcuts.

If they still aren’t working, continue on.

4. Sign in and out of iCloud

A last resort is to completely sign in and out of iCloud. You’ll want to do this on all devices linked to your iCloud account, one at a time.

1. Launch the Settings app.
2. Tap on iCloud.
3. Scroll all the way to the bottom and tap Sign Out.
4. Tap Sign Out in the popup menu.
5. Tap *Delete from My iPhone** in the second popup menu.
6. Type in your password to disable Find My iPhone if you’re prompted and tap Turn Off.
7. Once you are signed out of iCloud, reboot your iPhone or iPad by holding down the power and Home button until you see the Apple logo.
8. Sign back into iCloud in the Settings app.

What worked for you?

We hope one of these suggestions gets your keyboard shortcuts working again William. And for anyone else out there having issues with keyboard shortcuts, give these a try and let us know in the comments what worked for you!

Over in the BlackBerry Beta Zone the third party Instagram client, Insta10, has today been updated. There’s a list of fixes which have been implemented and there’s still more to come in future updates, but also introduced with this version is Hub Integration and running headless – although not perfect yet.

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Microsoft’s latest acquisition, while not officially announced by the company, is said to be Sunrise Calendar. Anyone who’s ever spent any time with Android or iOS may well be familiar with i already. It’s massively popular and all the while has remained free to download.

But what is it that makes this calendar app a potential $100 million investment? Why is it so good? Read on and we’ll try to break it down for you.

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