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Best Buy Offering Up Cyber Monday Deals For G2 And HD7’s

Unfortunately the news as of late has been (to put it mildly) a little lacking with regards to upcoming handsets, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get your hands on current models for cheap! Best Buy is running its own version of Cyber Sunday/Monday with deals on the T-Mobile G2 and the HTC HD7 for new customers. Offering the G2 up for the low price of $0.00 it’s an incredibly tempting offer for anyone who … [read full article]

T-Mobile And AT&T Considering Acer’s Liquid Metal Android Handset

Earlier last week at its Press Conference in New York, Acer stated that T-Mobile and AT&T  are now evaluating Acer’s Liquid Metal for a  possible release in the United States. Acer’s Smartphone Unit President Aymar de Lencquesaing says that since the Acer Liquid Metal is a GSM phone and there are only two GSM carriers in the U.S., it is up to them to decide whether they want to add the handset to their lineup. The Liquid Metal features an … [read full article]

What A Holiday Treat, Some Nexus S Goodness

Well it’s so very early in the morning but thanks to the very good folks at XDA Developers we’ve got some more pics and info on the Nexus S.  Thanks to an anonymous source, XDA Developers has received some early holiday goodness from Mr. Blurrycam. Of course that means the usual hard to completely make out but still totally awesome pics clearly showing the device running on the T-Mobile network. Of course this early morning goodness … [read full article]

Friendly 4G Launch Reminder!

Well, we knew this was going to happen.  T-Mobile officially announced the launch of 8 additional 4G cities early this morning.  In case you didn’t catch the late afternoon story last night, Detroit, Mich.; Grand Junction, Colo.; Harlingen, Texas; Lafayette and South Bend, Ind.; Montgomery, Ala.; Roanoke-Lynchburg, Va. and Youngstown, Ohio all launched this morning! T-Mobile now has a full 80 cities running the 4G HSPA+ supercalifragilisticexpialidocious network. Check out the full press release … [read full article]

Nexus S Makes Another Appearance In The Wild

We last saw a glimpse of the Android-powered Nexus S at the Web 2.0 Summit in the hands of the one and only, Google CEO Eric Schmidt.  The latest images come from EXIF data from a Google employee’s Picasa photostream tagged as the GT-i9020 (aka Nexus S).  The images reveal the Nexus S screen to be curved in an unusual way. This thing is out in the wild so it would be safe to say that … [read full article]

Sprint Claims To Be Only “True” 4G Network, They Also Have Big Pipes

If Sprint was hoping to steer the conversation back in their direction with this, the latest entrance in the “4G” argument, they should have tried harder.  This video, which offers up a mini-tutorial on how Sprint 4G works as well as some digs at the competition, effectively does neither very well.  All I learned from this video is that Sprint apparently has a larger pipe than everyone else. Claiming that “other carriers might claim to have … [read full article]

WalMart Offering $100 Gift Cards With Smartphone Purchases Through November 25th

Walmart is certainly stepping up their pre-Black Friday offerings in the wireless game with a $100 Walmart gift card now through November 25th.  The best part is that it qualifies for BOTH new customers as well as qualifying upgrades!  So what phones qualify you ask?  Adding a new line to a family plan will qualify and, of course, works online and in store.  If you’ve been looking to grab another phone in the next week, this is … [read full article]

Target Selling G2 For $49.99 For “Pre” Black Friday Deal

It looks like the T-Mobile partnership with Target is finally paying off, at least if you are looking to grab a new line and a T-Mobile G2 for the low price of $49. Running through November 24th, you can grab a T-Mobile G2 for the aforementioned price of $49.99 with a new 2-year agreement and a $30 data plan.  Not a bad deal if you’ve been eyeing one of these and are looking to start … [read full article]

T-Mobile HSPA+ Really Fast Says Root Metrics

T-Mobile has been saying that its 4G HSPA+ network will boost speeds across the board regardless of whether or not the phone is capable of the full speed.  So Wireless testing firm Root Metrics decided to put that to the test and found that the speed boost indeed was noticeable across the board no matter which device.  In a sample of six markets, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Oakland and Orange County, California T-Mobile was around … [read full article]