If you’ve been thinking about picking up a new Galaxy S9 from T-Mobile, then perhaps a new T-Mo deal will convince you to pull the trigger. T-Mobile today launched a new Buy One, Get One deal on the Samsung Galaxy S9. With it, you can buy a Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9+, or Galaxy S8 Active and get $720 off a second Galaxy S9, S9+, or S8 Active via bill … [read full article]
T-Mobile has followed last year’s T-Mobile Onesie with another piece of April Fools’ Day clothing. The T-Mobile Sidekicks are inspired by the iconic T-Mobile Sidekick smartphone. Rather than a phone with a QWERTY keyboard and a flip-out screen, these are magenta Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers with smartphone features like a heavy duty “stepscreen”, a camera built in … [read full article]
T-Mobile is giving Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ owners a weekend treat. Owners of the T-Mobile Galaxy S8 and S8+ are now receiving their Android 8.0 Oreo update. Several TmoNews readers began getting their update overnight, and they’re now on Android 8.0 with Samsung Experience 9.0. The Galaxy S8 update is 1548.94MB and … [read full article]
A T-Mobile plan pricing increase is coming next week. T-Mobile says that the Unlimited 55+ plan will cost $70 per month for new customers starting March 15. That price is $10 more than the Unlimited 55+ plan currently costs. The $70 pricing will include taxes and fees and requires autopay. While the price will be … [read full article]
If you’ve got a Google Pixel or Pixel 2 device, you can now give Android P a try. Google today released the first Android P Developer Preview. There are factory images for the Google Pixel, Google Pixel XL, … [read full article]
For several years now, T-Mobile has treated its customers to free Major League Baseball (MLB) games using the MLB’s streaming service. Today we’ve learned that that offer will be available again in 2018. T-Mobile will offer a free MLB.TV regular season subscription to its customers through the T-Mobile Tuesdays app. You’ll need to redeem your free subscription between March 27 and April 2. Because you … [read full article]
T-Mobile has been talking up its 5G rollout plans for quite awhile now, but we’re finally close to seeing the carrier deploy its first 5G coverage. T-Mobile will build out 5G in 30 cities across the US in 2018. Among the cities that’ll be first to get T-Mo 5G are New York City, Los Angeles, Dallas, … [read full article]
After appearing in numerous leaks and rumors, the Samsung Galaxy S9 has finally made its official debut. Samsung today introduced the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ at MWC 2018. As … [read full article]
T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray decided to drop a little network news on us before the weekend gets underway. Ray tweeted today that T-Mobile has added low-band LTE to hundreds of cell sites in two weeks’ time. When asked for more info, T-Mobile told me that this expansion includes a mixture of … [read full article]
T-Mobile have achieved another network speed milestone. T-Mobile and Nokia hit download speeds of 1.3Gbps this week using commercial Nokia tech with License Assisted Access (LAA). The testing was done at T-Mo’s lab in Bellevue, Wash. The equipment used in the test included Nokia’s AirScale MicroRRH connected to an AirScale module system. To reach 1.3Gbps, T-Mo and Nokia used aggregated LTE carriers in licensed and unlicensed bands … [read full article]
