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Google Buys Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Billion, Android Motorola Razr On The Horizon?

I leave the house for a little bit this morning and the tech world goes bonkers with Google announce a $12.5 billion dollar purchase of Motorola Mobility. Android fans take note as now there is going to be a whole lot of Android love from Motorola and maybe (hopefully) even the destruction of MotoBLUR. You hear that Google, the tech world wants you to destroy MotoBLUR. Google is spending a whole lot of cash to turn Motorola … [read full article]

AT&T Sues To Stop Merger-Blocking Arbitration Efforts

AT&T continues its road to world domination by filing eight federal lawsuits aimed at blocking a law firm’s attempt to stop the T-Mobile takeover via arbitration. The lawsuits were filed in response to a Bursor & Fisher law firm signing up over 1,000 customers looking to block the deal using the arbitration clause in the customer contract. AT&T says that the arbitration clause in its contract cannot be used for efforts such as blocking a … [read full article]

HTC Ruby Specs Leaked, 4.3″ Of Dual-Core Android Goodness

While the HTC Ruby is a bit of a mystery device a ninja source of ours we’ve been able to gleam a little bit of intel surrounding the specs and eventual launch. First and foremost this is not a myTouch device but will launch with a set of impressive and sure to please specs. The HTC Ruby will pack a 1.5GHz dual-core processor with a 4.3″ qHD display complete with a dedicated camera and video button … [read full article]

AT&T’s “Ooops” Damages Their Biggest Argument In Favor Of T-Mobile Takeover

AT&T’s Thursday filing to the FCC related to the T-Mobile USA takeover was accidentally not redacted allowing for some details to come out that they likely would have preferred to stay private. AT&T unintentionally revealed that it would cost them $3.8 billion in additional capital expenditures to build out their LTE network from the 80% percentage they already planned on to the 97% they want to build. The document was accidentally posted on the FCC website … [read full article]

AT&T Hires Bankers To Help It Prepare To Divest Assets For T-Mobile Deal

AT&T has begun the process of hiring bankers that will advise the company on how to sell assets in a move to ensure that they will will receive a government stamp for the takeover of T-Mobile USA. AT&T has brought on Bank of America Merrill Lynch to work on lining up potential buyers for customers and wireless spectrum AT&T will likely need to divest to win approval. AT&T has stated that they fully believe … [read full article]

T-Mobile Listening To Feedback, Improves Customer Service

T-Mobile is clearly making an attempt to listen to customer feedback by reinstating the ability for a customer to call in and say “agent” or “rep” to directly reach a customer support rep. This comes two weeks after they removed the very same ability in an effort to ensure customers were properly routed to the right department. Feedback for this change was clearly negative based on our comment and social media feedback and T-Mobile obviously took … [read full article]

Samsung Holding Galaxy S 2 Press Event On August 29th

Samsung just sent out invites for their Galaxy S 2 press event (where is our invite Samsung??) being hosted August 29th in New York City. They aren’t being shy as to what is on the agenda with the big roman numerals on the bottom of the invite a dead giveaway. We’re going to see the Galaxy S II introduced for an American audience and we hope that the Samsung Hercules makes an official debut as … [read full article]

Deal Alert: Radio Shack Having Blow Out Sale On T-Mobile Phones

Radio Shack is wasting no time making room for Verizon Wireless on their store shelves with a blow out sale on all T-Mobile postpaid devices in-store only beginning today. The T-Mobile deal with Radio Shack officially comes to a close on September 14th so we hope that this sale will run as long as supplies last. In any case you might want to take a trip to your local Radio Shack to see what kind of … [read full article]

T-Mobile Completes G2x Gingerbread OTA Rollout, Manual Update Still Available

T-Mobile has announced via their support forums that the T-Mobile G2x OTA Gingerbread update has officially ended as of August 10th. Anyone still looking for the update will be able to perform a manual upgrade using the LG updater found on the LG website. The G2x update upgraded the device to Android 2.3, improved battery life and helped address a number of bug fixes including unexpected reboots. If you haven’t received the update head … [read full article]

T-Mobile G-Slate Android 3.1 Honeycomb Update Rolling Out Now!

T-Mobile has provided a dose of good news for T-Mobile G-Slate owners as the Android 3.1 Honeycomb update is rolling out now! Bringing with a host of enhancements the update will appear on your tablet when it is available for install. T-Mobile of course insists that representatives cannot “expedite” the delivery of the update or push the update to tablets by request.” So what kind of new goodies will you find with this update? Google … [read full article]

T-Mobile Confirms Upcoming Change To 200MB Plan Overages

T-Mobile has confirmed in a short statement to the Wall Street Journal their intent to change the low-end data plan to incur overage charges rather than throttling customers who hit the limit. “Customers will incur overages of $0.10 per MB when they exceed 200MB of data ($10 for 10MB) up to a maximum monthly payment of $40 with Value plans or $45 with Classic plans for data including the 200 MB add-on fee.” This represents a … [read full article]

T-Mobile Ranks Highest In Customer Purchase Experience According To JD Power

While we’ve expressed some concerns regarding the overall direction we feel T-Mobile’s customer service has taken in recent months, JD power has seen fit to award them top honors in the Wireless Purchase Experience category. Coming in with an overall score of 755 out of a 1,000 point scale T-Mobile tied with frienemy Sprint for the top honor. The award rates a wireless purchase experience based on any one of three contact methods: telephone sales, retail … [read full article]