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BLU Life One X2 Mini launches with 5-inch display and 13-megapixel camera

BLU today took the wraps off of its latest affordable Android smartphone, the Life One X2 Mini. The BLU Life One X2 Mini is an unlocked Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow phone with a 5-inch 1920×1080 display, which is a smidge smaller than the 5.2-inch 1920×1080 display found on the regular Life One X2. Below that display is a fingerprint reader, above it is an 8-megapixel camera with flash, and around back lives a 13-megapixel camera with phase detection … [read full article]

Next week’s T-Mobile Tuesday includes $2 movie ticket, Dunkin’ Donuts prizes

Coffee drinkers, next week’s T-Mobile Tuesday is aimed at you. The T-Mobile Tuesday for March 21 will offer a $2 Dunkin’ Donuts promo card for T-Mobile customers. T-Mo subscribers will also get 30 percent off local deals on Groupon (up to $40 off) and a $2 movie ticket from Fandango that’ll be good on Tuesday only. Next week’s prizes all come from Dunkin’ Donuts. Two grand prize winners will each receive one year of Dunkin’ … [read full article]

T-Mobile and Dallas determine cause of 911 issue, T-Mo not at fault

Earlier this week, T-Mobile engineers traveled to Dallas to investigate a “ghost calling” glitch that it was thought was related to T-Mobile and was resulting in long 911 hold times. Now more information on the situation has come out. T-Mobile says that abandoned calls, not ghost calls, are to blame for the 911 issue, the City of Dallas announced today. While ghost calls are the result of a person’s phone making multiple calls to 911, … [read full article]

ZTE Axon 7 update rolling out with T-Mobile Wi-Fi Calling support, Android 7.1.1

ZTE Axon 7 owners, another update is coming your way. ZTE confirmed today that it’s starting to push Android 7.1.1 to the Axon 7. This is a big one for Axon 7 owners on T-Mobile because it includes support for T-Mo Wi-Fi Calling, a feature that ZTE has been planning to include since the Axon 7’s launch last year. The update also includes improvements to Daydream VR functionality, security and performance updates, and bug … [read full article]

T-Mobile ‘ghost calling’ glitch causing long 911 hold times in Dallas

When you’re in an emergency situation, being able to contact 911 right away is important. However, an issue involving T-Mobile customers in Dallas is interfering with speedy 911 contact. There’s an issue with T-Mobile customers in Dallas that end up with “ghost calls” when they try to contact 911. The glitch causes 911 systems to record calls as hangups, which results in 911 operators trying to respond to the ghost calls, which then causes other callers … [read full article]

T-Mobile offering Samsung Gear VR for 50 percent off

Many of the deals that T-Mobile offers offer free phones and free lines, but sometimes T-Mo will have some nice discounts on accessories, too. T-Mobile is now offering the Samsung Gear VR for 50 percent off its normal price, which means that it’s now $49.97. This model includes a USB Type-C adapter, and it appears to be the Gear VR model that debuted with the Galaxy Note 7 last year. T-Mo is also offering free … [read full article]

T-Mobile once again named as one of the world’s most ethical companies

T-Mobile is kicking off its week with an award win. T-Mobile has been named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute. This is the ninth year in a row that T-Mo has won this award. The evaluation process for the award sees Ethisphere examine a company’s performance in five categories to determine its ethics level. The biggest piece of a company’s Ethics Quotient score is its Ethics and Compliance Program, which … [read full article]

T-Mobile CFO Braxton Carter talks covering remaining LTE coverage gap with Verizon

T-Mobile touts that it covers 99 percent of the people that Verizon does, and this week T-Mobile CFO Braxton Carter talked up T-Mo’s plans to fill out the remaining coverage. “First and foremost, we really do want to cover that last 700,000 square miles in the US that Verizon has an edge on us on,” Carter said at a Deutsche Bank conference on Wednesday. He went on to say that while T-Mobile does have roaming … [read full article]

Samsung Galaxy S8 hits the FCC with support for LTE band 66

We have to wait until March 29 for Samsung to officially unveil the Galaxy S8, but today an FCC filing appears to have revealed some interesting info about the upcoming flagship. Today the FCC publishing its testing info for a Samsung device with the model number SM-G950U, which is thought to be the unlocked Galaxy S8. That’s because the model number fits with previous Samsung Galaxy S flagships. For example, the unlocked Galaxy S7 … [read full article]

T-Mobile ending free iPhone 7 switcher deal early, will now run through March 9

Remember that free iPhone 7 switcher offer that T-Mobile launched last week? It was supposed to run through March 16, but T-Mo revealed today that it’s ending the promotion early. The free iPhone 7 offer will now end tomorrow, March 9, so you’ve only got one more day to take advantage of it. As for why the deal is ending early, T-Mo says that it’s because “this offer is so hot.” This deal offers a … [read full article]