In a move that will shock no one, T-Mobile quietly lowered the prices of its existing iPhone hardware last week. The iPhone 5 dropped from $149.99 and 24 monthly payments of $21 to $99 down and 24 monthly payments of $18.75 per month. That’s a $100 price drop to a total cost of $549 for the 16GB iPhone 5 variant. The pricing on the 32GB and 64GB models also drop $100 … [read full article]
Update: T-Mobile just announced the price drop, full announcement below! A bit of good news this morning for future Galaxy S 4 owners as T-Mobile drops the down payment to $99/$20 per month from $149. Oh but that’s not all as the Galaxy Note II drops to $169.99 down/$20 per month and the Galaxy S III to $49.99 down and $20 per month. The iPhone 4 (available in select areas) … [read full article]
It’s been a long, long, long, long time coming — as the iPhone 5 is now officially available in T-Mobile stores, through T-Mobile.com and through Apple’s website. Today marks the first time that T-Mobile has carried in store a device from each of the four largest largest smartphone platforms. T-Mobile now provides customers a complete set of options combined with the … [read full article]
Updated: After seeing a bunch of questions regarding the credit applying toward a full outright purchase of the iPhone 5, I pinged T-Mobile’s PR and they confirmed the credit applies to full retail purchases. T-Mobile announced late last night it will supplement its upfront iPhone 5 pricing with a special trade-in offer. The offer, which lasts through Father’s Day on June 16th, will allow well-qualified customers to bring in their iPhone 4S … [read full article]
Has T-Mobile’s next marketing salvo against the iPhone already begun? With both a tweet under their belt as well a captured image(s) of an advertisement running on IntoMobile, T-Mobile is attacking the slow internet speeds of the iPhone. You can be anti-iPhone, pro-Android or somewhere in-between and loving Windows Phone, but I’m really quite tired of T-Mobile attacking the iPhone. Why does the T-Mobile marketing team insist on attacking the one device … [read full article]
Update: Some of you have noted that the 3G/4G moniker refers only to the generation of the phone as manufactured by Apple. We could argue that is incorrect as the first model was the iPhone 2G, the second model was the 3G, the third model was the 3GS etc. I think it could be argued that Apple chose a naming convention based on the speed of the hardware, not the model generation. First of all, … [read full article]
For Samsung fans, this video is just funny…poking fun at those of us willing to stand in line for hours on end to pick up Apple’s newest incarnation. The opposite side of this ad is that you know somewhere inside the bowels of Samsung HQ, they are wishing Samsung launches were met with the same kind of lines that Apple sees on launch day. The Galaxy S II has sold incredibly well, … [read full article]
Update: Apple fan site MacTrast has just posted their own rumored information regarding the arrival of the iPhone 5 on T-Mobile according to their own source. So there you go, maybe it will happen after all. Further elaborating on the matter, the informant suggested that T-Mobile USA expects the iPhone 5 to launch sometime in early to mid October, whichcorresponds nicely with current speculation. He also expects the iPhone 5 to make … [read full article]
Once again T-Mobile retail stores are receiving small shipments of MicroSIM cards to be used for non-T-Mobile devices, likely the iPhone 4. Each retail location will receive ten MicroSIM cards and they are $9.99 as a replacement SIM or free if activated with a new purchase. Of course you can always purchase the MicroSIM through T-Mobile.com just in case your local retail store sells out. iPhone 4 users should of course … [read full article]
If I had a dollar every time an analyst predicted a T-Mobile iPhone arriving later this year I wouldn’t be paying for my honeymoon out of pocket. Instead I’d be flying a private jet around the world. Yet here we are with yet another analyst predicting a T-Mobile iPhone arrival sometime in 2011. This time the honor belongs to Piper Jaffray analyst Chris Larsen who says: “While we remain uncertain regarding … [read full article]
