Now that the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge are officially official, we’ve just got to wait for them to hit stores and our hands. To help pass the time, T-Mobile has posted an unboxing video for the Galaxy S7, but this one is a little different than your normal unboxing video. The clip shows T-Mobile product guy Des Smith unboxing the Galaxy S7 underwater. Because the GS7 is [read full article]
Hot on the heels of the debut of the LG G5, Samsung has taken the wraps off of its own new Android flagships. The Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge feature designs that look similar to the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge at first, but they’ve actually got some small refinements to make them better. The rear cameras of both phones are now very nearly … [read full article]
Friday afternoon, some folks started having issues making calls over LTE and Wi-Fi. It turns out that T-Mobile was suffering from a rather significant outage affecting customers across the country, but T-Mo says that the issue has now been cleared up. John Legere and T-Mobile have announced on Twitter that “calls are operating normally nationwide.” Several customers [read full article]
UPDATE: T-Mobile has confirmed that they will launch the LG G5. However, specific availability and pricing details won’t be revealed until later. MWC 2016 may not officially start until February 22, but many companies are announcing there new smartphones before the show gets underway. That includes LG, who just revealed its new G5. The LG G5 switches things up a bit from last year’s LG G4. Rather … [read full article]
UPDATE: I still haven’t heard back from T-Mobile, but John Legere has confirmed that some customers are having “intermittent calling issues.” UPDATE 2: T-Mobile posted a tweet on Saturday night apologizing to customers that are having issues with calling and promised that “teams are working to resolve them asap.” It looks like T-Mobile and its engineers had a bit of a rough … [read full article]
We’ve already seen the Samsung Galaxy S7 and HTC One M10 leak out before their official announcements, and now it’s the LG G5’s turn. A pair of LG G5 images have surfaced thanks to Evan Blass. They give us a clear look at LG’s next flagship smartphone, which is expected to include a couple of new … [read full article]
After launching the Samsung Gear S2 last November, T-Mobile will begin offering its Classic counterpart next month. The Samsung Gear S2 Classic will be available from T-Mobile starting on March 11. Pricing will be set at $0 down, 23 monthly payments of $16.67 apiece, and one final payment of $16.58. Full retail pricing will be $399.99. Watch out for the @samsung #GearS2Classic –available March 11th from T-Mobile! https://t.co/qmEJm8JpbY … [read full article]
Hot on the heels of a RootMetrics’ wireless network report, JD Power has released a new report of its own that measures customer satisfaction with the wireless device purchase process. And with this one, T-Mobile fared much better. JD Power’s study evaluates the buying experience for customers picking up a new wireless phone from any of three channels: phone calls with sales reps, … [read full article]
A couple of weeks after T-Mobile won the most awards in an OpenSignal network study, a new report has surfaced that puts T-Mo in the opposite position. RootMetrics has published its Mobile Network Performance in the US study for the second half of 2015. Its results show T-Mobile finishing with an overall network performance score of 80.9 out of 100. To … [read full article]
Verizon recently teased its 5G plans, saying that it plans to begin trials this year with the plan of being the first with a 5G network in the US. T-Mobile hasn’t made any similar 5G announcements yet, but today it did call Verizon out on its claims. During T-Mobile’s Q4 2015 earnings call, CTO Neville Ray said that Verizon is looking to change the game and focus on … [read full article]
After sharing some early Q4 2015 results last month, T-Mobile today spilled all of the details of its end-of-year 2015 performance. In the final months of 2015, T-Mobile added 2.06 million new customers. That includes 1.29 million postpaid subscribers and 469,000 prepaid customers. This makes Q4 2015 the 11th straight quarter that T-Mo has added more than 1 million customers and the third straight quarter … [read full article]
Sprint has been running a half-off switcher promo since November that offers to cut in half the rate plans of folks that switch to Sprint from competing carriers. The deal has been extended a couple of times now because Sprint says that it’s gotten an “overwhelming response,” but some analysts don’t think that the deal will have any effect on T-Mobile. In a recent note regarding T-Mobile’s upcoming results announcement, Barclays analyst Amir … [read full article]
