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Why Now Is A Great Time to Be a T-Mobile Customer

A few years ago, T-Mobile was borderline sick. The spectrum crunch was felt in full force by T-Mobile customers around the country. 1,500 milliseconds pings and dropped calls galore peeked their heads at every opportunity. T-Mobile’s smaller customer base accompanied by its use of non-standard frequencies for network operation made it nearly impossible for T-Mobile to garner flagship handsets, further compounding the  ”greener pastures” appeal of competitors’ networks. To add insult to injury, T-Mobile had no roadmap … [read full article]

HTC Considering “Google Edition” One Stock Android Release In The United States?

With the release of the vanilla Android Galaxy S 4 edition right around the corner, attention has turned back to HTC and questions surrounding a possible HTC One vanilla Android release. With five million devices sold, the One is a beautiful smartphone with a great camera, awesome speakers and it’s easily one of the best devices we’ve seen come out of Taiwanese manufacturer. HTC has denied publicly that a One … [read full article]

T-Mobile’s LTE Network Speeds Off To Great Start In New TechHive Survey, RootMetrics Report

The combination of T-Mobile’s 4G HSPA+ and LTE networks showed up strong in a new TechHive national survey of the nations four largest networks. T-Mobile’s LTE network is still in its infancy with only seven “confirmed” cities: Baltimore, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Jose and Washington D.C. Of course we’ve already seen plenty of LTE coverage start to light up in cities like New York, Minneapolis, Los … [read full article]

Samsung Announces 10 Million Galaxy S 4 Units Sold, Handily Breaking Galaxy S III Record

Pop open the bubbly this morning as Samsung officially announces that it has surpassed 10 million Galaxy S 4 units sold in less than one month. Samsung Mobile CEO JK Shin promised as much last week and we suspected that if anyone knew just how close the company was to the 10 million mark, it was him. In comparison the Galaxy S III took around 50 days … [read full article]

T-Mobile LTE Sightings Abundant In The Los Angeles Area Today

T-Mobile’s next set of LTE network launches continues to get fine-tuned with the latest group of reports pointing to Los Angeles. According to sightings coming in via @tmonews Twitter, Facebook and my inbox Los Angeles area sightings are happening en masse. As with last weeks sightings in Minneapolis, New York City and Detroit we’re still calling this as “fine-tuning” and testing” but customers can still latch on to the LTE network. Los … [read full article]

HTC Said To Be In “Complete Disarray” As Key Staff Exit, Struggles To Keep Up With One Demand

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A brand new report surfacing out of The Verge suggests things are not all sunshine and rainbows in HTC’s camp. With key staff exiting the company, a “disastrous” HTC First launch and inventory constraints plaguing the HTC One launch, the company’s future looks anything but certain. In the past three months HTC has lost Jason Gordon, the company’s vice president of global communications; global retail marketing manager Rebecca Rowland, director of digital … [read full article]

T-Mobile Drops In American Consumer Satisfaction Index, Now In Fourth Place

I look at each of these studies and wonder if the questions were a little different or if we caught someone on a different day, would their answers have been different? What I can’t do is argue that T-Mobile continues to be on the losing end with a fourth-place finish on the new annual study from the American Customer Satisfaction Index. On a scale from 0-100 the overall score was a 72, a … [read full article]

Hands-On Video With The Nokia Lumia 925 For T-mobile

We all know a flagship Nokia Lumia device is overdue on T-Mobile and that’s what has Windows Phone 8 fans in a tizzy for the Lumia 925. Sure, there’s some concern about the lack of expandable memory and built-in wireless charging. Thankfully, our man at PhoneDog, Aaron Baker got some hands-on time with the Lumia 925 over in Las Vegas as CTIA gets underway. T-Mobile has yet to announce pricing and availability, but with the … [read full article]

Update: Samsung Galaxy S III LTE Launched Yesterday, May 20th In Retail Locations

Hold the phone T-Mobile fans as our intel from yesterday is outdated almost immediately as new intel points to a Galaxy S III LTE release yesterday. Early yesterday we were advised that the Galaxy S III LTE would be available on June 5th, which is fortunately an outdated piece of information. According to this newly obtained image, T-Mobile has launched the Galaxy S III LTE in T-Mobile retail/branded locations. “On May 20, … [read full article]

Consumer Reports Calls Samsung Galaxy S 4 “Top-Rated” Smartphone

Consumer Reports may have lost some of its luster in recent years thanks to the onslaught of smartphone rankings across the web. Still, when Consumer Reports talks, people listen and that’s why we’re taking note of their new choice for “top-rated smart phone.” According to the report published yesterday, the Galaxy S 4 dethroned the LG Optimus G which sat in the top spot for several months. The S4 has an excellent … [read full article]