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Strangest Commercial Ever Offers T-Mobile Customers $100 Credit To Switch To Virgin Mobile

Hello again Virgin Mobile and thank you very much for the creepiest commercials ever. Seriously, Virgin’s second commercial in two years aimed directly at stealing T-Mobile customers is perhaps the oddest commercial I’ve seen in recent wireless industry history. A brain jumping on a chair is somehow appealing and makes me want to switch carriers, riiiiiight. I’m usually pretty critical of T-Mobile’s marketing but at least I don’t cringe when I watch them and Carly was … [read full article]

T-Mobile Retail Stores Start Prepping For iPhone Launch As Uniforms, Demo Units Begin Arriving

With the iPhone launch on T-Mobile just four days away, T-Mobile’s retail locations are getting ready with brand-new “uniforms” and demo inventory. T-Mobile isn’t a stranger to rolling out new T-Shirts as part of major launches, and the Magenta color certainly screams T-Mobile and iPhone at one. As for the demo devices, we don’t expect T-Mobile to receive customer inventory until the night before the launch, but … [read full article]

Best Buy Internal Doc Says Simple Choice Plans Coming At End Of “Fiscal Year”, Classic Plans Still Available

Perhaps one of the most confusing and poorly explained aspects of T-Mobile’s new Simple Choice offering is how it works with third-party retailers and authorized dealers. I’ve tried to do all that I can on my end with TmoNews to help explain that what company-owned channels offer is different from other T-Mobile sales channels. That’s why I found this Best Buy screengrab so useful as it helps explain exactly what you can and cannot do at a … [read full article]

Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean Update Now Available

I bet most Galaxy S II owners didn’t see this coming as T-Mobile updated the GSII support page this morning with the introduction of Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. As the update is optional, the only installation method is through Samsung’s Kies software. The manual download to T989UVMC6 will enable Android 4.1.2 and weighs in around 756MB for the download. The Jelly Bean update features a speedier interface, a higher system frame rate combined with some architecture rework … [read full article]

New Google Play Redesign Leaks Yet Again As “Babel” Chat Name Surfaces Inside Of Gmail

A new leak coming out of a Google+ posting yesterday is giving us another look at the upcoming Play Store redesign. First things first, as you can see with the dog bone in the corner, Google is “dogfooding” this new design internally to employees and shows a brand new landing page than discovered in a leak this past March. All that means that what we see now is subject to change the build is for employees … [read full article]

Is Sony Set To Finally Return To T-Mobile’s Lineup? Magic 8-Ball Says “Signs Point To Yes”

It’s taken me the better half of two weeks to confirm this unicorn was definitively floating around in T-Mobile’s world, but it seems Sony may be ready to make a return to the Magenta network. After having an “it’s complicated” status for what seems like an eternity, I’ve managed to “confirm” via three separate sources that the Xperia Z (Yuga) is being tested. Before you set aside your interest in other upcoming Android launches on T-Mobile, I’ll remind … [read full article]

Best Buy Posts T-Mobile HTC One Pre-Order For $249

With HTC One pre-orders already hitting the HTC site without warning and selling out just as fast, attention now turns to retailers like Best Buy, which has placed the One up for sale online for $249. Before we move forward, I’ll try and remind everyone once again that third-party national retailers are not selling T-Mobile devices with the Simple Choice Value Plans, so this offer requires a Classic Plan. Moving on, the estimated date of … [read full article]

Purported Specs For Lumia 928 Leak As Rumors Continue To Point At T-Mobile Launch

With all of our attention on the iPhone, HTC One and Galaxy S 4 lately it’s easy to forget that there’s still at least one rumored flagship Windows Phone 8 device rumored for T-Mobile shelves. Now, thanks to Italian blogger Flavio we’re getting what could be our first look at a list of “confirmed” specs for the device. According to Flavio’s tweets from yesterday, the Nokia … [read full article]

(Updated) Carrier Update Now Available Enabling LTE, Visual Voicemail For Unlocked iPhone 5 Models

Update: After spending the better half of my day trying to figure out when this update would roll out, T-Mobile has removed the support page leading us to wonder if it was posted prematurely. As we remarked below in the main text, today was noted earlier in the week as the available date so we really don’t know what happend or why. Hopefully the update will make a quick return and we’ll actually see it roll out.  … [read full article]

Pre-Order The HTC One Direct From HTC, Ships April 18th

Here’s a bit of a kicker for those of us still eagerly awaiting T-Mobile’s announcement of an official HTC One release date. The manufacturers own “shop” page has placed the T-Mobile variant up for pre-order with shipping taking place on April 18th. With the 18th as a shipping date, my best guess is that we’re then looking at the 19th as an official release date, which does line up with other rumors I’ve heard but unable … [read full article]

Deutsche Telekom Calls A “Take Back” On Statement Regarding Sweetening MetroPCS Offer

Here we go again as a brand new day yields yet another turn of events in the ongoing saga that is becoming the T-Mobile/MetroPCS merger. With a statement denying reports  that Deutsche Telekom was considering “sweetening” the deal to make sure the deals completes, comes a whole new statement.  It appears that Deutsche Telekom has finally settled on a statement and that statement is: “No comment.” Well, there’s really a little more to it, as … [read full article]