Dearest Readers,

Tmonews has seen some definite hardships in the last two weeks. Server troubles have plagued the day-to-day life of the website and caused my hair to turn gray. Really, it’s all gray now. In an effort to stem the anger and frustration I have experienced and the readers have endured we have decided to accelerate some of our plans for the unveiling of the “new” Tmonews. Dust will be prevalent for the coming days as we continue to iron out the kinks, adding in old features and starting anew on others. The site will look as you see it now, this is the Tmonews website adopted for the future and while we enhance it, we continue to ask for a little more patience. Tmonews will continue to be the T-mobile lover’s blog you have enjoyed up until now, just with a brand new look. So sit back, relax and enjoy the scenery.

Congratulations to Frank C, the winner of the Tmonews logo contest and recipient of the grand prize of $250!!!!!! Frank was kind enough to rework his strategy with his winning contest entry when we decided on a slightly different direction color wise and we are absolutely thankful for his hard work. Congrats, Frank!

Expect to see quite a few more changes as the time comes, don’t forget to visit our forums, follow us on twitter, receive the RSS feed and donate money to my “Get David a Macbook Pro fund.”

P.S. A number of posts and comments have yet to be imported, including comments from our most recent posts. We are working on importing everything in the next few days so please, hang tight!

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T-Mobile’s been on a role lately adding more and more cities to their 3G network. We’ve been getting a lot of emails regarding 3G in Charlotte from residents. Even though this hasn’t been confirmed by T-Mobile, due to the volume of emails we have received today we’re posting this as a hopeful launch! At this rate it looks like everyone will have 3G in there city by December maybe even on Christmas Day! TmoNews will keep you guys updated with the latest 3G launches!

UPDATE: T-Mobile has officially confirmed 3G for Charlotte NC & Charleston SC

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Good afternoon TmoNews readers! Today is a very important day for RIM (Research In Motion). RIM has officially acquired Torch Mobile. You know the developers behind the WebKit-powered Iris mobilebrowser. As you may already know the famous iPhone/iPod Touch Safari browser also use mobile WebKit. Not to mention the Android web browser also uses WebKit. So this could really help Blackberry devices acquire a decent web browser. And we might even see this new web browser on the upcoming T-Mobile Blackberry Driftwood. Sound off in the comments or feel free to discuss in the forums!

Via Crackberry

UPDATE: The guys over at WMExperts.com contacted Torch Mobile who replied that the company will no longer be developing for Windows Mobile or Windows CE.

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The guys over at BeGeek got their hands on the first official photo of the Nokia N900 Internet tablet. Yup the one expected to head to T-Mobile USA in the near future. Their tipster claims that the official announcement should be made September 2nd at Nokia World. BeGeek’s tipster also claims that the N900 will have a 3.5 inch screen, the tablet is equipped with a GPS, an accelerometer, an NPC 5 megapixel camera and 32GB of memory. The specs match the Nokia device codenamed “Rover” that passed FCC for T-Mobile USA a while ago right? Let’s just keep our fingers crossed and hope we are blessed with this device soon! Feel free to express your thoughts in the comments!

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Still want a new Touch Pro 2 but don’t have the cash for it? Well the wait is over! Amazon is offering the HTC device for $149.99, that is with new service with T-Mobile. When compared with T-Mobile’s pricingthat saves a total of $200! And if your not diggin’ the contract the TP2 is $549.99. Hurry and take advantage of this great offer! Amazon will also throw in free two-day shipping when you purchase the phone with a service plan. What are you waiting for, head over to Amazon.com!

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There is little question the almighty dollar is influencing a lot more of a our buying decisions lately than it has in recent years. T-mobile, who has long prided itself a lower cost solution to the Verizon and AT&T’s of the world, has certainly carved out quite the little niche. However, there is a difference between saying you are the low cost carrier and actually being the low cost carrier these days. So what’s the truth? The people over at billshrink are spending their days researching away so we can assure ourselves our dollars are working hard for us. While T-mobile has partnered with Billshrink in the past to help provide customers with lower cost solutions, Billshrink still operates independently and the results of their latest carrier comparison shows no allegiance exists. Regardless of any study, comparison or intuition you might have, however, the real answer lies in what works best for you, based on both price and reliability. AT&T, that pretty much means people should be deserting you in droves.

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T-mobile has certainly made strides in its 3G networks in recent weeks with a large swath of launches enveloping the Tmonews homepage.  That’s a good thing though, I know there are still many many readers looking for that magically appearing 3G symbol. This week the following cities launched and while we attempted to report on them all, server troubles have occupyied too much of my time. Here’s the full list recap so no one feels left out.

The following cities have launched this week:

• ·Knoxville, TN
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• ·New Haven, CT
• ·Waterbury, CT
• ·Augusta, GA
• ·Richmond County, GA
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• ·Port Arthur, TX
• ·Alvin, TX
• ·Algoa, TX
• ·Manvel, TX
• ·Magnolia, TX
• ·Nashville, TN

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The following cities have launched this week:

• ·Knoxville, TN
• ·Bridgeport, CT
• ·Hartford, CT
• ·New Haven, CT
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• ·Augusta, GA
• ·Richmond County, GA
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• ·Magnolia, TX
• ·Nashville, TN

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