Well, its over! T-Mobile has ended its year old search deal with Yahoo.  It comes as no surprise to hear that Magenta has replaced Yahoo with its biggest rival—Google. The deal is important because it now shifts search dominance away from Yahoo, as the Big G is now working exclusively with two of the top four carriers in the United States.  A Yahoo spokesperson said that Yahoo will still be working with the fourth-largest U.S. carrier on other content services, such as Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, News, Sports, Finance and Flickr. It should also be noted that Yahoo will continue to work for T-Mobile International in Europe. Interestingly, the break-up follows last weeks discovery that AT&T will replace Google with Yahoo on their upcoming Google Android device-the Motorola BACKFLIP (really? replacing Google on a Google Android handset?) Well folks, how many of you think the Google-T-Mobile search deal with last longer than the Yahoo one? Lets hear some comments below!

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Magenta has something special for the top 2% of their customers brewing slowly on their website.  It seems some users have been contacted last night and this morning to be offered a preview of a new program called My T-Mobile Perks.  Membership to the new program is completely free and doesn’t require you to do any fancy tricks to sign up. Just click the link in the email, sign in, and then confirm you want to join the preview.

So what kinds of perks are to be expected?  Well, since it’s a preview (read not complete by any means), there’s not a whole lot to choose from just yet.  However, the email mentioned you will receive perks automatically for your birthday, your anniversary date with T-Mobile (how romantic), and other special Stick Together days.  Further investigation found that the free gift on your birthday is a ringtone and a wallpaper and the Stick Together days are additional minutes and messaging for free.  After joining, completing one of the surveys on the site rewarded us with a $5 gift card for Subway.

Lastly, there are GiveBack Bonus Perks that the email mentions, and there will be rewards you receive each time you add My T-Mobile services or products to your existing account.  There’s even a mention of your perks getting progressively better the longer you stay with T-Mobile.  So what do you guys think?  Is this another reason to love T-Mobile (as if we didn’t already)?

Edit: Sorry for the confusion.  It’s only the preview part that has been rolled out to the 2% of customers.  We’re not sure if the My T-Mobile Perks will be available for ALL customers, but here’s to hoping it is!

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T-Mobile will be doing a software trial for G1 users only. This will NOT be the rumored Eclair update, sorry to say. However, this trial will reflect features similar to Google Voice integrated into the stock dialer app. It will allow you to set numbers to be ignored, integrate Visual Voicemail, and  and some other goodies. Once this software comes out of trial status, there will be other features, too, but we can’t talk about those just yet. So how about the cool part? Well, T-Mobile is actually looking for people to test out these new features on their phones (something to the tune of thousands of users!). Do we have your attention yet? Excellent, we’ll let you know as soon as we get the details on where you can sign up.

Edit: Yes, this will most likely look and function similar to what rooted users have had for a while now.

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As you probably all already know, T-Mobile announced its new Even More plans in late October. But it looks like that’s not all T-Mobile is rolling out this year. Thanks to our trusty tipster, T-Mobile will be offering T-Mobile Complete. T-Mobile Complete is a pre-packaged, no-annual contract solution that offers the value of a monthly plan and the first pay-in-advance BlackBerry smartphone from a national U.S. carrier. This will be great for people looking to get nice gift for the Holiday Season. Full details below:

T-Mobile announces the availability of T-Mobile Complete, a pre-packaged no-annual contract solution that offers the value of a monthly plan and the first pay-in-advance BlackBerry smartphone from a national U.S. carrier.  With T-Mobile Complete, customers can choose from four handsets starting at $59.99, which includes first month free. Customers can also choose from a range of unlimited plans starting at $50 per month. T-Mobile Complete is currently available nationwide at Best Buy and at select Walmart locations.

T-Mobile Complete kits are the easiest way to give phones this holiday season. Just buy the kit, wrap it, give it as a gift, and the recipient can activate service from anywhere, anytime – and they get the first month free! One of the four devices available through T-Mobile Complete is the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone, the first pay-in-advance BlackBerry smartphone available from a national carrier.  Smartphones will be a hot gift option this holiday season – in fact, T-Mobile expects smartphones to account for 40 percent of its sales in the fourth quarter of 2009.

T-Mobile Complete is just one great holiday gift option from T-Mobile.  With a wide array of devices this holiday season – including the broadest lineup of Android smartphones of any carrier in the U.S. – there’s something for every type of customer.

Handsets available will include the BlackBerry Curve 8520, Samsung T239, Samsung Gravity, and the Samsung T229. Are you diggin’ T-Mobile Complete? Leave your thoughts in the comments!

UPDATE 2: Samsung T239 will  run you $49.99

UPDATE: According to Engadget:

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 will be $299.99 
And the BlackBerry Pearl will run you $149.99

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Soon, T-Mobile will be set up to allow corporate customers who use Blackberries to make calls over their office Wi-Fi connections without using up cell plan minutes (hey, this sounds familiar).  Then, as a neat trick, the call will be automatically switched to T-Mobiles network after said Blackberry user is outside of their Wi-Fi network’s range.  T-Mobile “will charge a flat monthly fee on top of cellular rates,” all in an effort to persuade business customers to cut the cords on their landlines (and save money while doing it).  Tell us what you think about this feature in the comments!

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Have you ever found yourself someplace new and not know what to find around you? Well, there is an app for that, and it is coming to T-Mobile phones.  T-Mobile will be offering the WHERE service through Web2Go for $2.99 per month.  Until further notice, only G1, Blackberry Curves, Samsung Memoirs and Beholds will be available to download this service.  Not familiar with WHERE? Well, they do a pretty good job of explaining what this app is capable of:

WHERE® allows you to quickly launch a mobile experience that puts the people, places and things you look for at your fingertips while on the go. Local content available through WHERE includes everything from the weather, news, and restaurant reviews, to the closest coffee shop, cheapest gas, traffic updates, movie show times and more. WHERE also helps you reach your destination with easy to use maps and directions.

WHERE makes you feel like a local, no matter what city you are in.

This seems like it could be a nice little add on for those traveling customers.  Leave your thoughts in the comments!

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You may recall our earlier story about T-Mobile’s upcoming Equipment Installment Plan, which is set to begin on November 16, well we have a little more information about this interesting option which you might be interested in.  First off, let me just let you know what this is not: it isn’t really an offer of credit and is not going to have any interest or APR involved, so there is almost no reason to not be all for this offer.  How much you can spread out (up to $500) does depend on your credit class and history though, so don’t expect to be able to walk out with a top of the line device (or two, or a bundle of accessories….) if you’ve had credit problems in the past.

Which brings us into what else the equipment installment plan can be used for, not only is it for phones but also for accessories!  You can put all accessories, devices and handsets on an installment plan – as long as it’s over $19.99.  You will not be able to include any fees (including upgrading and restocking), airtime payments or e-pins and hard card prepaid refills.  So now there are no excuses for walking out of the store with those hands free kits and an extra battery or two!  Or, you can always just grab a couple of phones for the family instead.

OK, that’s cool and all – but what about upgraders?  Have you recently upgraded your device(s) and are now a little upset because you didn’t know about the G1, the Behold or the Zine (and why didn’t you?  Aren’t you following along)?  T-Mobile haven’t forgotten about you either, upgraders can take advantage of the EIP as well!

If you do decide to opt for the installment plan (and I would imagine that quite a large number of people to take advantage of it) then the day that you decide to take that brand new phone (and accessories!) home, you’ll be out the first payment plus any taxes and fees as well.  After that, the next three payments will be added to your monthly bill.

So I’m really excited about the equipment installment plan, and I hope that you are as well!

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It’s been a month now since we last mentioned this device and there’s no better time to bring it up again than now. The T-Mobile Cameo, a picture frame that can receive pictures via e-mail and/or picture message (MMS), is nearing its release and some details have surfaced.

So first off, sending pictures to your picture frame at home via E-MAIL? Who can say that doesn’t just sound cool? Not only can you send pictures directly from your phone to the frame by picture message (and not just your phone, but any phone) but anywhere you can get access to your email. On vacation out of state? Take a really good photo that you know your friend/family member would love to display, or just know you’ll want it on your own frame? The Cameo makes it really easy to receive and display sent pictures from afar, an easy way to display a great picture that anyone would love to show off. Read the full story

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T-mobile is pulling out all the stops to retake the vaunted top spot in the wireless customer service wars. Introducing, customer service from….the phone!! In a deal with Nuance Communications T-mobile will introduce on select handsets a do it yourself application which initiates when a customer calls customer service. In an effort to streamline “”issues such as diagnosing and repairing configuration problems as well as with making account and billing inquiries,” this application according to T-mobile has already shown promise in live trials. Installation is available via the manufacturer or over the air T-mobile remains mum on what devices will have this service.

This begs the question of what happens when a customer calls from a phone other than their mobile, like oh say a land line? In principle I think this is a wonderful idea but the questions remains as to how many customers will actually see their issues settled by an application, or how many will ignore the application and just desire to talk to a live person.

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That’s right T-mobile is in high gear for the 22nd of October, you know the day some G1 phone launches. Oh well, phones are all the same these days, right? Much more important however is some small overhauling to the Myfaves rate plans.

Magenta has done a little tweaking to the plans increasing them by $10 and making mobile 2 mobile standard on all myfaves plans. So really, its not “tweaking” per se, just making what was once an option now “included.”

The only REAL revamp here is the inclusion of a $69.99 myfaves 400 plan. No surprise really as that price point remains the common entry level for family plans on the big carriers. This does not affect any of the non-myfaves plans.

Anyways, not much else to tell but here’s a small graph because some of us just learn better with pictures.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in! 

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