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To the surprise of no one, the Garminfone Android device hasn’t been a big hit on T-Mobile and other carriers, as Garmin said its mobile division hasn’t performed as well as it had hoped. According to the company’s second quarter earnings statement: Sales of our smartphone product category contributed $27M in revenue during the quarter.…
HTC is driving Android’s rise and is leading the pack with its myriad of handsets including the popular Verizon HTC DROID Incredible and WiMAX-enabled Sprint HTC EVO 4G. HTC was the first device manufacturer to produce an Android handset when it launched the T-Mobile G1 in 2008. Amazingly, recent sales figures released by the NPD…
T-Mobile said it lost 93,000 subscribers in the second quarter but the Android platform and an expanded 3G network are giving it some positive news with long-term subscribers. The fourth-largest U.S. carrier finished with 33.6 million total subscribers and a net income of $404 million. This places T-Mobile behind Sprint’s nearly 50 million subscribers and…
The HTC Vanguard, which has also been going under the names “G1 Blaze“, “Vision”, and now more recently “Glacier” has been benchmarked prior to going live on the T-Mobile HSPA+ network and it’s quite the speed demon. When compared to the iPhone 4 and Samsung Galaxy S, two of the fastest mobile phones on the…
Get ready, T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Slide owners, you’ve got an OTA Android update coming you’re way. Starting tomorrow, T-Mobile will be pushing out the update, but don’t get your hopes up for Android 2.2 Froyo coming along for the ride. The update should consist of some nice optimizations and bug fixes for the Slide. While…
AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile are teaming up with Discover and Barclays to test NFC payments in the Atlanta area as well as three other cities. The operators have been searching for a CEO for this new venture. AT&T and Verizon will get equal stakes in the company, with T-Mobile having a smaller chunk of the…
You’ve heard about the Samsung Galaxy S right? You know, Samsung’s first superphone coming to all four major US carriers? Good, because now we have them all together before they battle it out in the US smartphone market. While it’s nothing we haven’t seen before, the video below is by far the most detailed of…
When it comes to navigating the rocky road to ideal GPS navigation Android smartphone pricing, the T-Mobile Garminfone seems to be on a continual search for ever lower price points. Following on a recent price cut that left the Garmin-Asus Garminfone at a $130 on-contract price, T-Mobile has managed to sniff out an even lower…
T-Mobile may not have the most exciting phone line-up right now, but it does have the honor of being back on top in customer service satisfaction ratings, according to J.D. Power and Associates. After taking a back seat to Verizon earlier this year, but getting the number one spot for retail satisfaction, the fourth largest…
We just got our first glimpse of what looks to be the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G HD yesterday, and this time around, we’re seeing the back side of the device that’s rumored to be T-Mobile’s first HSPA+ smartphone. While it’s not the most interesting part of the phone, it’s one step closer to having a complete…