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Samsung T569 Passes FCC, Next Stop T-Mobile

Smartphones this, smartphones that, someone needs to cool it on the smartphone front.  Let’s just sit back, relax, and enjoy a good ol’ normal Samsung featurephone, the T569 to be specific.  Not much is known about this device, but it certainly looks like your standard Samsung resistive touchscreen featurephone.  With possible 3G, a camera and bluetooth, I’m sure some … [read full article]

T-Mobile Phones, Hacking Edition

DO AT YOUR OWN RISK!  Everything listed in this post can pose a threat.  Now, you shouldn’t be too scared about that.  There are people out there that do this every day.  That being said, I will warn you again, proceed with caution.  Many thanks to all the contributing developers at XDA Developers, you guys are great! Let’s start off with something easy.  Rooting seems … [read full article]

T-Mobile Sued For Throttling Data Speeds, Having An “Unlimited” Plan

Hey, guess what, another lawsuit complaining that a wireless carrier doesn’t really offer an “unlimited plan.” Unfortunately, this time it’s levied against T-Mobile by lead plaintiff Trent Alvarez who states he entered into an agreement with T-Mobile by purchasing smartphones and then received a message regarding a reduction in data speeds due to exceeding the 10 GB limit. The suit brought in Yolo County, California … [read full article]

T-Mobile Reports Second Quarter Numbers

There aren’t many ways for us to sugar coat the most important aspects of these second quarter numbers from T-Mobile so we’ll just come out and say it, there are some good aspects and some bad ones. Total customers declined last by 93,000 in the second quarter, compared to 77,000 net customer losses in the first quarter of this year. We have to express some surprise here considering we saw … [read full article]