Nokia has had several popular and affordable BlackBerry-style phones with front-facing keyboards over the years, including the E71 series–which also was subsidized on AT&T as the E71x, the E72, and the E73 Mode available through T-Mobile USA. The latest one, the E6, will bring subtle refinements to this popular form factor that offers business and [...]
On its own, I commend Sprint for being the first 4G network in the U.S. by debuting its WiMax network and its EVO 4G smartphone long before rival Verizon Wireless had even unveiled its own 4G network based on the competing LTE network. However, when the carrier says that it’s committed to WiMax despite looking [...]
A leaked screenshot shows T-Mobile will be offering a larger 10 GB per month data plan on March 13th in addition to other changes, including a 20% data discount if bundled with a voice plan. The leak, originally reported on TmoNews, outlines that the carrier will not be charging overages on its Even More webConnect [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports that Sprint has reopened discussions on how to merge with T-Mobile USA as the two slip further away from their far more powerful rivals, Verizon and AT&T. Would be a very interesting move complicated by Sprint’s poor history with mergers. Of course, the big question is: Could SprinT-Mo get the [...]
While Nokia has had trouble making headway in the highly competitive U.S. smartphone market, the company may be set to launch its latest Symbian smartphone prior to a Windows Phone 7 device in the States. T-Mobile USA may be slated to pick up the Nokia C7, a consumer-centric edition of a phone that’s similar to [...]
It looks like T-Mobile USA will be expanding its G-franchise with a new smartphone that was leaked as the LG G2X. The fourth largest U.S. carrier which operates the second largest GSM network in the country already has another G product in its lineup, also from LG, in the form of the G-Slate. The G-Slate [...]
T-Mobile USA had written to inform us that the carrier will be shutting down its servers for the Sidekick service, which are operated by Microsoft post-Danger acquisition. The Sidekick service will officially end on May 31, 2011, and the carrier will reach out to affected customers to help them migrate to a new device. In [...]
This hasn’t just been a big week for Notebooks, it’s also been packed full of tablet and smart phone news and videos. We’ve rounded up the best of the week into a bite size version that will let you digest the week’s tablet and smart phone news while you enjoy your Friday afternoon. Tablet News [...]
T-Mobile USA, the nation’s fourth largest carrier, has raised the prices on a number of popular Android smartphone, including the myTouch 4G, the T-Mobile G2, and the new Samsung Galaxy S 4G. Prices for all three smartphone models are now up by $50 on a two-year contract with the carrier. Other phones have seen price [...]
As T-Mobile is rolling out a faster 4G HSPA+ network and will be introducing more data devices–including tablets and mobile hotspot routers, the carrier may be examining plans to offer truly unlimited mobile broadband data plans. Currently, T-Mobile’s data plans, at least on smartphones, are limited to 5 GB of data per month, after which [...]
T-Mobile announced two budget Android handsets in the form of the T-Mobile Move and the Samsung Galaxy Mini, both cheaper alternatives to the Galaxy S 4G. The devices will land in the UK but will eventually make it over to the U.S. market to join the Optimus T and other smartphones in the entry-level segment. [...]
It looks like T-Mobile USA, the nation’s fourth largest wireless carrier, has made the Vibrant Galaxy S successor–the Galaxy S 4G–official at Mobile World Congress. The evolutionary upgrade to the Galaxy S lineup will support the carrier’s faster 21 Mbps HSPA+ network that it is promoting as a 4G standard. In a Twitter post, T-Mobile [...]
If you think rugged smartphones are big, bulky, and ugly–think again. The Motorola Defy is a rugged Android smartphone–the second for the company–that launches in a tuxedo black and white shell that stands up to your daily life and ‘defies’ what you throw at it, including any pre-conceptions for what rugged may look like. The [...]
A leaked advertisement for the forthcoming Galaxy S/Vibrant refresh from T-Mobile USA known as the Galaxy S 4G has been leaked showing Walmart’s price for the 4G HSPA+ Android smartphone to be $148.88 with a two-year service agreement. The contract-free option for the phone will be priced at $650. These prices may be specific to [...]
T-Mobile wants users to know that love is in the air this weekend, tempting users to give the gift of gab to their loved ones for Valentine’s Day with a free smartphone offer provided that subscribers sign up for a two-year service agreement with the carrier. The promotion will be running this weekend from February [...]
Last week, rumors were circulating on the Internet about an HTC Pyramid smartphone, which would bring much improved specs to the HTC Android experience to T-Mobile USA. The leaked specs for the Pyramid indicate that the Android smartphone would have a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor clocked at 1.2 GHz, a 4.3-inch display that is becoming [...]
The Motorola Cliq XT was launched on T-Mobile USA with Android 1.5 and Motorola’s proprietary user interface overlay on top of Android known as MOTO BLUR. According to Motorola, the company was not able to achieve the performance that it hope it can deliver with an Android 2.1 update. Instead, the company is scrapping plans [...]
According to Kevin Tofel of GigaOm Mobile who has reviewed the Dell Streak 7 for T-Mobile USA as the carrier’s first 4G HSPA+ tablet, the Android 2.2 Froyo slate has a lot of potential, but Dell had not made use of the potential resulting in a device that’s more of a miss than a hit. [...]
According to sources to TmoNews, the HTC Mozart is said to be coming to U.S.-carrier T-Mobile USA. The device, unlike the HTC HD7 already available on the carrier, will sport a more compact 3.7-inch display rather than the 4.3-inch screen with a WVGA resolution. The Mozart will be powered by a 1 GHz Qualcomm single-core [...]
T-Mobile USA has gone on to set the record with its pricing for the Dell Streak 7 tablet. The U.S. carrier will be offering the NVIDIA Tegra 2-powered HSPA+ tablet for a low $200 on a two-year contract and $450 without any contracts. The Dell Streak 7, like the Galaxy Tab that it hopes to [...]
Following on the news that we had previously reported that carrier T-Mobile USA will be reviving its Sidekick brand as the Sidekick 4G with a new device, TmoNews has now published a series of leaked photos showing the device. While the original Sidekicks were mostly made by Sharp–Motorola had made one device with the Danger [...]
A recently leaked document with important release dates for upcoming high profile phones and tablets for wireless carrier T-Mobile USA was obtained by TmoNews. That document confirms the anticipated release dates for the LG G-Slate tablet, the Dell Streak 7, as well as the Galaxy S 4G, also referred to by some as the Vibrant [...]
At a press event, PC Mag is reporting that the nation’s fourth largest carrier has confirmed that it plans to release a Sidekick 4G and Galaxy S 4G (also dubbed the Vibrant 4G) “coming soon.” Slides of the devices were shown in a presentation by CEO Philipp Humm. The revival of the Sidekick brand will [...]
According to T-Mobile USA’s Chief Marketing Officer, the Android 2.2 Froyo update for the carrier’s Galaxy S variant dubbed the Vibrant will be officially unleashed starting tomorrow. The roll-out will occur in batches, so if you’re a Vibrant owner and don’t see the firmware update immediately, don’t fret. According to the carrier, the update was [...]
Now that T-Mobile has retired the Sidekick devices, which was powered by Danger’s proprietary OS (Danger has since been acquired by Microsoft), rumors are once again circulating that the U.S.-based carrier may revive the Sidekick moniker and may release a device by the name of the Sidekick 4G. Rumors about a Sidekick revival had been [...]
At the press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the nation’s fourth largest carrier announced that it is firmly committed to expanding and evolving its HSPA+ network for 4G for the next several years. However, according to TmoNews, like rival carrier AT&T, T-Mobile would be switching its 4G network to an LTE-based [...]
With the conspiracy theory that Samsung may be holding back the Android 2.2 Froyo update for its Galaxy S smartphones, which launched with Android 2.1, in favor of pushing out newer hardware with Android 2.2 or Android 2.3 Gingerbread, Samsung has taken upon itself to clear the air. In a statement to Phonescoop, the company [...]
The Dell Streak 7, Dell’s 7-inch tablet, may be slated to hit T-Mobile USA on February 2nd as the GSM carrier’s first 4G-enabled tablet. The Dell Streak 7 will be an HSPA+ tablet that will support up to 21 Mbps theoretical download speeds. According to TmoNews, the introduction of the Dell Streak 7 will also [...]
A leaked image of the Samsung 4G for T-Mobile USA’s 4G HSPA+ network was revealed and the picture shows that the Vibrant 4G may skip Android 2.2 Froyo in favor of the newer and more current Android 2.3 operating system, also referred to as Gingerbread. While the original Vibrant, a Galaxy S series smartphone, was [...]
Samsung’s hardware refresh to the original Vibrant, a Galaxy S smartphone, will be released on February 9th according to TmoNews‘s sources. The Android 2.2 Vibrant 4G smartphone with Samsung’s proprietary TouchWiz UI adds a front-facing camera for video calls and support for T-Mobile USA’s evolving 4G network. Samsung has been criticized for the launch of [...]
While T-Mobile USA has announced the G-Slate at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, its maker LG may have grander plans for the Android tablet that may have the G-Slate appearing on multiple carriers in multiple variations. In an interview with Pocket-lint, marketing and planning director James Choi was a [...]
At the Consumer Electronics Show, T-Mobile announced that it will be upgrading its 4G network to support faster 42 Mbps download speeds along with two new tablet devices–the LG G-Slate and the Dell Streak 7, which is a larger cousin to the 5-inch Dell Streak on AT&T’s network. The new 7-inch Streak will only be [...]
In what is being described as a hostage situation at AndroidSPIN, a tipster has informed the blog that Samsung is withholding the already finalized Android 2.2 update to the original T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant for the U.S. carrier in hopes of pushing aggressive sales and updates to the slightly updated Vibrant 4G hardware, which was recently [...]
The Nielsen Company recently conducted a survey of 2,131 Americans to gauge the public’s understanding and awareness of 4G and finds that the majority of Americans are cognizant over what 4G really means. That said, over a quarter of respondents who say they understand what 4G is–27%–think that the iPhone 4 made by Cupertino, California-based [...]
After announcing its evolved 4G network top 42 Mbps in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show, the U.S.’s fourth largest carrier may soon get a 21 Mbps-capable phone, up from the 14.4 Mbps cap on the T-Mobile G2 and myTouch 4G currently available today. The Vibrant Plus is an evolved Galaxy S smartphone and [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
Last year Toshiba waded into the Android tablet market with the Thrive, a 10.1-inch slate that served as the company’s response to what they deemed missing in the then current crop. Thus, it had several full-size ports, a rugged-ish exterior, and a thick chassis to accommodate both. Though a decent tablet, the Thrive didn’t generate [...]
Samsung Shows That It Is a Software Company
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Autumn Dynasty Review: A Great RTS for the iPad
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Griffin GuitarConnect Pro Review: Record Your Jams with Ease
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
Google just delivered a beautiful update to the company’s Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad The Google Search app for iPhone and iPad replaced Safari as my browser of choice, earning a spot in the iPhone and iPad dock. It’s faster and offers a beautiful new full screen image search which looks awesome on the [...]
