By the looks of things T-Mobile isn’t ready to give up the prepaid world to the likes of Walmart with the introduction of three brand new rate plans. Effective October 20th T-Mobile will introduce 3 brand new prepaid plans: $70 Unlimited Talk & Text with 2 GB of Data (includes picture and video messaging) $50 Unlimited Talk & Text with 100 MB of Data (includes picture and video messaging) $30 1500 Talk & Text with … [read full article]
Update: Those goofy guys at Phonedog, Noah and Aaron went hands on with the Defy last night at Motorola’s CTIA event and we’ve got the video! Oh how I love the traditional hands on of an upcoming device to get a better “feel” of what’s going on. In this particular case we’re graced with a half dozen or so pictures courtesy of the folks at Laptopmag but their camera work gave away a few hints of … [read full article]
This will hardly come as a shock or surprise to pretty much anyone who has watched the mobile industry over the past two years or so showing Blackberry in decline. This chart looks to be pretty much on the ball with all the recent reports offering the Android platform as “the” platform right, the other major platforms seem to be declining. Even Apple is offered a declining platform in next few years and we’re not sure … [read full article]
Well, would you look at that. Just yesterday, the WSJ confirmed T-Mobile’s involvement in the Windows Phone 7 launch event, and now the FCC has officially cleared two HTC manufactured Windows Phone 7 handsets, the PD29110 and the PD26110. The HTC PD29110 supports WCDMA Band IV (AWS) which pretty much seals its fate for T-Mobile, while the PD26110 seems to be headed towards AT&T. If we didn’t know better, we’d probably say the PD29110 is the HTC … [read full article]
While CLIQ XT owners are still patiently waiting for their promised Android 2.1 update (which is still scheduled for Q3/ Early Q4 of this year), Motorola has started rolling out a maintenance update in the meantime. The maintenance software update (1.32.20) improves: Overall Phone Performance Users will notice a significantly improved overall performance and responsiveness to input requests, including: opening applications, answering calls, opening the Happenings widget, and downloading attachments and pictures within email Additional Stability … [read full article]
According to sources at the WSJ as well as an “official statement” given to the Journal, T-Mobile will definitely be on hand to showcase their first entry into the Windows Phone 7 market. Of course we presume that to be the HTC HD7. While many of you have all but shrugged off the latest and best hope for Microsoft to regain market share there is plenty of money and Microsoft marketing strength put behind this … [read full article]
We are just on a roll today and since we have your attention with all of yesterdays exciting announcements we should remind you, today is the day to win a free Apple iPad from our friends at Phonedog! This couldn’t get any more basic or simple as all you have to do is “like” the Phonedog Facebook page. It’s that simple! The winner will be announced TONIGHT at 5pm West Coast time, so 8pm eastern … [read full article]
It would be easy to think that yesterdays launch announcement of the new myTouch device overshadowed the additional launch of 16 more HSPA+ cities. So we thought we’d take a little time this morning to remind everyone exactly what cities went “live” yesterday for your HSPA+ browsing speed pleasure. With its latest expansion, T-Mobile’s HSPA+ footprint now includes Biloxi and Gulfport, Miss.; Denver, Colo.; Huntsville, Ala.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Myrtle Beach, S.C.; Norfolk, Va.; Omaha, Neb.; … [read full article]
Had enough myTouch HD details, or whatever the phone will really be called? No? Good because we’ve got the official sign up page for you to register and receive information regarding launch and pricing. Who knows, maybe just maybe we’ll see another pre-order. Though we’re completely speculating on that last part so don’t take it seriously, until we say otherwise. For the moment though, register and wait for some eagerly anticipated details on what is bound … [read full article]
While so many of you are gobbling up the myTouch details that have either leaked or been officially announced tonight, one thing our eagle-eyed readers caught in the comments stands out. On both the “new myTouch” and Motorola Defy product pages on T-Mobile.com it completely confirms that Wi-Fi calling of some nature lives and on Android. While we don’t know the extend of the details on how exactly this will work, we’ve had enough … [read full article]
