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Samsung Confirms Galaxy S III Announcement Coming “First Half Of Year” At Dedicated Event

Any rumors, stories, tips, leaks or hints surrounding a Samsung Galaxy S III announcement at Mobile World Congress in the coming weeks can now be put to rest as TechRadar received a statement from Samsung directly pertaining to the launch of the Galaxy S III: “Samsung is looking forward to introducing and demonstrating exciting new mobile products at Mobile World Congress 2012. The successor to the GALAXY S II smartphone will be unveiled at a separate … [read full article]

T-Mobile Holding Open PHP Enrollment For Month Of February?

I’ll be the first to admit that while I understand some folks consider cell phone insurance a miscellaneous and/or unnecessary monthly cost, it’s helped me out a few times over the years. Most importantly, it’s saved me a lot of money during those instances I had to take advantage of it than shelling out the price of a whole new phone. With that in mind, T-Mobile has marked February as a PHP Open Enrollment month allowing for … [read full article]

Nokia Lumia 710 Drops Down To $39.99 On T-Mobile.com

The Nokia Lumia 710 on T-Mobile hit store shelves for $49.99 when it launched three weeks ago as T-Mobile’s newest Windows Phone. Three weeks later T-Mobile is already making some price adjustments to the Lumia as it’s now listed for $39.99, ten dollars less than what we saw last week on T-Mobile.com. There is no indication that the the $39.99 pricing is a limited time offer so we’re thinking it’s a permanent price break. As an … [read full article]

T-Mobile Adds FamilyWhere Check-In Service, Keep Tabs On The Family

T-Mobile has added a new family locator service to its suite of carrier-specific Android apps this morning. T-Mobile Android owners will now find FamilyWhere, powered by Location Labs’ Safely software, in the Android market on their smartphones. With FamilyWhere, family members will be able to find each other from their phone or browser, even if the other family phones aren’t equipped with a GPS radio. T-Mobile’s press release says in 2011, more than 16 million U.S. subscribers … [read full article]

T-Mobile’s Mobile Hotspot Feature Bundle Option Still Up For Grabs, Now Listed On T-Mobile Website As “Limited Time” Offer

Remember the “hush hush” data Unlimited-Premium 5GB and 10GB data plan promotions we discovered and reported on earlier this month? Do you remember how the screen shot we obtained mentioned that these rate plans were not to be proactively offered to customers? About that…turns out that T-Mobile had a change of heart and has now listed the Mobile Hotspot compatible rate plans on their website as “limited time” offers. This plan(s) can be found under both the … [read full article]

(Updated) HTC Ville Caught On Video Running Android 4.0, Sense 4.0

Update: Sorry guys, looks like someone took the video offline. HTC’s upcoming HTC Ville smartphone stars in a newly leaked video ahead of its expected official announcement next month at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It was back on January 13th that we first got word the HTC Ville could be heading to T-Mobile sometime in the future. So what do we know about the Ville? Well, it’s rumored to have a 1.5GHz Snapdragon Series 4 … [read full article]

T-Mobile Wants To Help Small Business “Get Paid Fast,” Brings Square Credit Card Reader To Retail Stores

T-Mobile continues to throw some weight behind the mobile payment movement, as they have become the first wireless carrier to offer Square credit card readers at a number of their retail outlets. This isn’t the first instance of T-Mobile utilizing the Square payment reader as a tool to lure in small business customers as they began offering Square readers to small business users with upgrades back in December. T-Mobile’s new Square campaign will allow stores utilizing … [read full article]

T-Mobile Changes To Domestic Data Roaming Detailed, Confirmed For April 5th

Well we can now chalk this “rumor” firmly up in the “confirmed” category for April 5th as we’ve gotten our hands on some more detail for T-Mobile’s planned changes to domestic data roaming plans. Right away, T-Mobile does point out: “Domestic data roaming will not be subject to data speed reduction. The allotment will be reset with each bill cycle. After the allotment is reached, the customer will no longer have data roaming access until they … [read full article]

Concerned About Our End Of Life Post For the HTC Sensation4G/Amaze4G? Don’t Be.

Judging by your comments, Tweets, emails and Facebook posts a number of you expressed some concern and confusion over our recent “End-Of-Life” post for the HTC Amaze 4G, Sensation 4G among others. In hindsight, I suppose I should have made sure this was put into the post surrounded by neon lights to avoid any confusion or panic, but “End Of Life” only means it is the end of the “shelf life” for the phone. … [read full article]

T-Mobile Making Changes To Off-Network Data Roaming Plans In The Future?

Word coming out of Howard Forums tells us T-Mobile will be making some changes to their data roaming plans when you are wandering off the T-Mobile network. According to the Howard Forums tipster, sometime in early April, T-Mobile will change their domestic roaming policies to 100MB of data on the 5GB plan and 200MB on the 10GB plan. If you exceed the 100 or 200MB limit, the network will cut off any data services until a connection … [read full article]

HTC Amaze 4G, Sensation 4G, LG DoublePlay, myTouch And myTouch Q Nearing End-Of-Life?

Here’s a bit of interesting news to keep us talking over the weekend as a new T-Mobile inventory screengrab has fallen into our inbox indicating the HTC Sensation 4G, HTC Amaze 4G, LG DoublePlay, LG myTouch Q and LG myTouch are nearing their end-of-life status. We should remind you that “end-of-life” does not mean the Amaze 4G will immediately disappear from store shelves — if anything there could be still be weeks worth of … [read full article]

T-Mobile Continues To Train Frontline Employees On Churn-Reducing Efforts

T-Mobile’s churn-reducing efforts for 2012 continue with new frontline employee training highlighting “four non-negotiable customer standards.” T-Mobile is looking for frontline employees to cover four basic steps to help make sure a customer leaves the store happy and smiling. The first step is a personal coverage check to determine if the future T-Mobile customer will have a good signal at their home or office. We’ve already seen a document regarding churn that suggests T-Mobile sales representatives … [read full article]