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Samsung Vibrant Plus Will Offer HSPA+ 21 Mbps 4G Speeds

Well, we knew the Samsung Vibrant Plus existed but we didn’t know was that it’s slated to be T-Mobile’s first 4G phone that offers HSPA+ 21 Mbps speeds. Currently, the myTouch4G and T-Mobile G2 offer 4G speeds that are capped at 14.4 Mbps. On top of that, this Samsung Vibrant 4G which will be exclusive to T-Mobile will offer a front facing camera with Qik video services and finally Android 2.2 (at least one Galaxy S … [read full article]

Verizon, The iPhone And You – An Editorial

If you have been on the Internet at all over the past four days you probably know about the latest announcement.   Verizon held a rather exclusive press conference today to announce their partnership with Apple, allowing them to carry a CDMA version of the iPhone.   Guess what?  The sky hasn’t turned red, the earth hasn’t opened up, pigs aren’t flying and, most of all, twitter didn’t collapse, so this clearly wasn’t a sign of the … [read full article]

(Updated, Just 7 Days Away!!) PhoneDog Wants To Give You A Galaxy Tab, An iPad Or A Blackberry Playbook

Update: We’re just 7 days away from this giveaway so get all your Facebook “likes” in before the man with the best hair in all of wireless blogging gives away Tablets! That’s right, it’s giveaway time thanks to our friends at PhoneDog who have revamped their 100 iPad giveaway contest to include Galaxy Tabs and Blackberry Playbooks. If we didn’t have you interest before, I hope we have it now as you have a chance to … [read full article]

Verizon CTO Calls Out T-Mobile HSPA+

Verizon is showing its usual arrogance over its network via an interview with CTO Tony Melone from Cnet. While I’ll be the first to admit, Verizon really outshines the other carriers, including our Magenta at CES, hands down that doesn’t mean they have the strongest offering of all. With that in mind, we won’t deny that they came out swinging with their selection of LTE offerings but T-Mobile is promising 25 phones with a good deal … [read full article]

T-Mobile Wants To Keep Smartphones Cheap

T-Mobile CEO Philipp Humm told the Wall Street Journal that T-Mobile plans to sell a number of Android devices for $100 or less. Explaining that not all customers want expensive, high end devices T-Mobile is looking to capture that demographic. “We are working with our vendors on this one to drive the price of smartphones down,” T-Mobile won’t be the only carrier hoping to attract new customers with cheaper handset offerings but T-Mobile hopes the combination of … [read full article]

myTouch Slide Update Delayed By Two Issues

With news of the myTouch 3G LE and Fender editions prepping to receive their Android 2.2 update, plenty of myTouch Slide customers are left wondering when is their turn. Well the good news it’s being worked on, the bad news is we’re hearing exactly what kind of trouble is delaying the update. Apparently there are two problems holding up the public release: 1)   Wi-Fi calling doesn’t work 100% of the time, we’re not sure what … [read full article]

Android 2.2 Froyo Coming To myTouch 3G 3.5mm Jack & Fender LE January 12th

Mid-October, we first reported T-Mobile would begin rolling out the long awaited and highly anticipated Android 2.2 Froyo update for original myTouch 3G owners. T-Mobile has announced via their forums that the original myTouch 3G 2.2 update was successfully completed on December 15th 2010. Additionally, T-Mobile has announced that the update for myTouch 3G 3.5mm Jack and myTouch 3G Fender Limted Edition will be rolled out beginning Wednesday, January 12th. The OTA update will be sent … [read full article]

T-Mobile CES Keynote In Pictures

Warning: Lots and lots of pictures ahead! So what’s one more T-Mobile event keynote post, you guys eat this stuff up! This time we’re giving you the whole event in pictures; having already given the salient points from the days events this time we are doing it via imagery!  It’s interesting for sure to see these images and get a glimpse as to what T-Mobile has in store for their network, even if their device announcements … [read full article]

T-Mobile Question And Answer Session After CES 2011 Press Event

I believe I saved the best for last with this video from the end of the T-Mobile 2011 CES Press Event featuring from left to right, T-Mobile CEO Philip Humm, CTO Neville Ray and CMO Cole Brodman. These are amongst the three most important people in the T-Mobile USA organization so when they speak, we should listen. This video contains all kinds of fun stuff like…you know, you just better watch! P.S. One final sorry, I’m … [read full article]

LG G-Slate Passes FCC

The folks over at the FCC have just passed an LG device (model no: LG-V909) with our favorite, AWS bands. Looking at the device pictured in the FCC filling, it looks to a tablet, which shouldn’t be a surprise if you watched the T-Mobile CES event yesterday. Besides an FCC label, nothing new is reveled regarding the G-Slate other than it should be coming in the next few weeks as T-Mobile announced. Who’s ready for … [read full article]

T-Mobile Posts Dell Streak 7 Promo Video

It wasn’t too long ago that the Dell Streak 7 broke cover and was announced by Dell and T-Mobile.  Now both are setting their sights on launching this fast and powerful device.  What is looking to be the first 4G tablet will surely be capable, full of features and even competitively priced.  The year of the tablet is upon us, we just need to wait for them to hit the market.  In the mean time, … [read full article]

T-Mobile To Bring 25+ 4G Devices To Market In 2011

While I admit the lack of detail surrounding this number is a bit frustrating, 25 plus HSPA+ devices coming in 2011 at least leaves plenty to the imagination.  This number is a combination of data and phone devices which comes very close to our own assumed number of 24, though our information was specific to data devices.  Even so, 25 plus devices with at least some of them running on the upcoming 42Mbps HSPA+ network … [read full article]