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More T-Mobile LTE Sightings Yet Again Today In Austin/San Antonio, Seattle, And Philadelphia

Another day, another set of LTE sightings pop up as T-Mobile readies networks across the country in their effort to hit the 100 million POPs covered goal by summers end. This time we’re focused on Austin and San Antonio Texas; Seattle, Washington and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Accordingly, a few sightings have popped up in and the Sacramento, Santa Barbara and other surrounding areas in California. As … [read full article]

Google, HTC Announce Stock Android HTC One For $599, Available June 26th

Oh HTC One fans, the “Google Edition” HTC One is officially officially…it’s really real and its coming on June 26th via Google Play for $599. The device will work on both AT&T and T-Mobile, just like its Samsung Galaxy S 4 counter-party announced at Google’s I/O conference. HTC is calling it the “HTC One with Nexus User Experience” and will come in 32GB sizing SIM-unlocked, with an unlocked bootloader. According to the HTC Blog, the HTC One … [read full article]

Early T-Mobile LTE Sightings Continue In Oklahoma City, Dallas And Miami

While news has been a little slow in the last few days, T-Mobile is still hard at work building out their LTE network to make their 100 million POPs before the end of Summer goal. With that, another round of LTE sightings has popped up in and around Oklahoma City; Dallas, Texas and some scattered sightings in Miami, Florida. As per our usual warning, these sightings are unofficial and represent what we believe is T-Mobile’s … [read full article]

T-Mobile Launches Budget Friendly Galaxy Exhibit, Confirms June 5th Launch Of BlackBerry Q10

With yesterday’s intel pointing toward a June 5th launch of the BlackBerry Q10 it came as little surprise this morning when T-Mobile announced that very date via press release. T-Mobile becomes the first major US wireless carrier to offer the QWERTY BlackBerry 10 smartphone with business customers already having to the option to scoop one up. “If you love your high-performance touch screen phone, but … [read full article]

Samsung’s Galaxy Note III Rumored To Feature Improved Camera, Possible Optical Zoom

In a move that will shock almost no-one, Samsung is rumored to be testing an improved camera in the Galaxy Note III with optical image stabilization. According the Samsung source who spoke to Korean outlet ETNews, the 13 megapixel camera will allow users to edit their photography with the included S Pen. Samsung is said to be considering a 3x optical zoom as well, but will likely reject the idea because of the extra thickness it … [read full article]

HTC One, BlackBerry Q10 Launching Nationwide On Wednesday, June 5th

A bit of good news this morning as word just arrived that T-Mobile is planning to release the HTC One nationwide on June 5th. That’s very welcome news considering the original retail/branded launch took place in just 300 stores as HTC was sorely lacking global inventory. As HTC kicks up production it seems to already be filtering down as T-Mobile will bring the device to all of their retail and branded locations next Wednesday. Along … [read full article]

LG Announces Global Availability For White Nexus 4, Won’t Make Nexus 5?

The White Nexus 4 has finally, officially been given the global release go ahead thanks to a new LG press statement. Once a unicorn talked about only in back-rooms and secret hallways, the white Nexus 4 unveiled itself to the world in a far more “official” capacity at Google’s I/O conference earlier this month. The Nexus 4 White features the same stock Android Nexus experience as the black color variant so any hopes … [read full article]

Why Now Is A Great Time to Be a T-Mobile Customer

A few years ago, T-Mobile was borderline sick. The spectrum crunch was felt in full force by T-Mobile customers around the country. 1,500 milliseconds pings and dropped calls galore peeked their heads at every opportunity. T-Mobile’s smaller customer base accompanied by its use of non-standard frequencies for network operation made it nearly impossible for T-Mobile to garner flagship handsets, further compounding the  “greener pastures” appeal of competitors’ networks. To add insult to injury, T-Mobile had no roadmap … [read full article]

HTC Considering “Google Edition” One Stock Android Release In The United States?

With the release of the vanilla Android Galaxy S 4 edition right around the corner, attention has turned back to HTC and questions surrounding a possible HTC One vanilla Android release. With five million devices sold, the One is a beautiful smartphone with a great camera, awesome speakers and it’s easily one of the best devices we’ve seen come out of Taiwanese manufacturer. HTC has denied publicly that a One vanilla Android is on … [read full article]

T-Mobile’s LTE Network Speeds Off To Great Start In New TechHive Survey, RootMetrics Report

The combination of T-Mobile’s 4G HSPA+ and LTE networks showed up strong in a new TechHive national survey of the nations four largest networks. T-Mobile’s LTE network is still in its infancy with only seven “confirmed” cities: Baltimore, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Jose and Washington D.C. Of course we’ve already seen plenty of LTE coverage start to light up in cities like New York, Minneapolis, Los Angeles and Detroit, but … [read full article]

Samsung Announces 10 Million Galaxy S 4 Units Sold, Handily Breaking Galaxy S III Record

Pop open the bubbly this morning as Samsung officially announces that it has surpassed 10 million Galaxy S 4 units sold in less than one month. Samsung Mobile CEO JK Shin promised as much last week and we suspected that if anyone knew just how close the company was to the 10 million mark, it was him. In comparison the Galaxy S III took around 50 days to hit the same … [read full article]