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HTC One Won’t Reach US Shores Until Late April Says New Press Statement

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A brand new press statement from HTC just hit our inbox offering up some less than thrilling news on HTC One availability. “HTC has seen unprecedented demand for and interest in the new HTC One, and the care taken to design and build it is evidenced in early reviews. The new HTC One will roll out in the UK, Germany and Taiwan next week and across Europe, North America and most of Asia-Pacific before the end … [read full article]

T-Mobile’s UNcarrier Value Plan Phone Pricing Available In Fine Detail

We’re dropping news today with an upcoming sneak peek at T-Mobile’s future Value Plan UNcarrier handset pricing launching next week. T-Mobile’s evidently moving away from specific tiers with handset pricing and breaking down each phone in its own way with some costing as little as $2 a month and others as high as $20 monthly installment payments. As a quick reminder, beginning sometime next week, perhaps as early as the 24th or with the [read full article]

New One-Size-Fits-All Value Plan Brochures Begin Arriving In T-Mobile Retail Stores

T-Mobile is one step closer toward UNcarrier life with the receipt of new Value Plan brochures arriving in company-owned retail stores across the nation. As we first posted in early March, T-Mobile’s move to a Value Plan only corporate environment begins on March 24th and to that end, the move to a one-size-fits-all rate plan makes complete sense. Gone are the contracts and overages, hello to one easy to follow and understand pricing. Thankfully, T-Mobile’s … [read full article]

T-Mobile New Classic And Prepaid Plans, Classic Available At All National Resellers

While T-Mobile’s corporate owned retail stores will go live with a Value Plan only environment on March 24th, National Retailers are launching a total revamp of the company’s Classic Plans. Why two sets of rate plans you ask? The simple answer is that T-Mobile’s national retailers like Target, Walmart and Best Buy can’t support the Value Plan structure of commissions paid out by the carrier. In the cases of corporate stores where T-Mobile owns the inventory, it’s … [read full article]

Live From Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 Radio City Event, It’s Finally Here And Coming To T-Mobile

It’s live, it’s really live — that’s right the Galaxy S 4 and I’m right in the middle of all the action in Radio City as Samsung continues to announce their newest flagship. The Galaxy S 4 is definitely running at the top of Samsung’s game with a 5″ 1080p 441ppi display. There’s a 1.9GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor under the hood along with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. That’s a 13 megapixel camera on the back with a … [read full article]

T-Mobile’s New UNcarrier Model Introduces “UN-BEATABLE” Trade-In Options

T-Mobile’s UNcarrier model is set to bring a host of sweeping changes to the way T-Mobile does business, of that we’re already beginning to notice. Along with new Value rate plans, T-Mobile is introducing a new trade-in program with two separate options in the hopes of knocking down some of that shock value from Value Plan handset pricing. So let’s break this down … [read full article]

FCC Says ‘Yay’ To T-Mobile Merger With MetroPCS, Approval Order Issued

Hot on the heels of reports that the FCC would approve the T-Mobile merger at the bureau level and not a full vote — comes exactly that result. The flash just hit Bloomberg News, leaving any remaining obstacles to the merger to come from the MetroPCS shareholder meeting in April. From the FCC finding: Based on the record before us and our review of the competitive effects … [read full article]

T-Mobile Responding To AT&T’s Newspaper Ad With Their Own Creative Responses

Let me be the first to say, that if these ads developed for T-Mobile in response to AT&T’s one-page attack ad last week don’t run in newspapers everyday for the next year, I’m going to be disappointed. Do these ads point to a new, cocky T-Mobile? Absolutely, but that’s what makes me love these three spots. I’ve long hoped that T-Mobile would do more to adopt a scrappy marketing campaign and start taking pot shots at … [read full article]

(Update) Breaking Down T-Mobile’s New Uncarrier, No-Contract, One Rate Plan Fits All Approach

Update: To try to bulk answer questions so many of you are wondering — unfortunately, I have no idea how this will affect existing customers. It’s impossible to know that from these images, but I would imagine standard industry practice would follow and your existing plan would be grandfathered. T-Mobile isn’t going to force anyone to change to this plan on the 24th, but they may ask you to do so with your next upgrade. That’s a pattern AT&T has … [read full article]