Supposedly the Cliq XT will be released tomorrow for $99 dollars on T-mobile. Say what? We’ve seen this keyboardless Cliq follow up device a couple times now, and knew it was going to be released soon, but with seemingly no announcement? We’ve seen this baby hands on, and in the wild a couple of times,…
HD2 definitely not upgradable to Windows Phone 7
It’s not much of a surprise, but Microsoft confirmed that the HTC HD2 won’t be able to upgrade to Windows Phone 7 Series. This could potentially sink any chances of success for the HD2 among the smartphone fanatics because there will be a shiny, new (and most likely better) operating system in just a few…
Nexus One sales after 74 days: 135,000 vs 1 million for the iPhone and 1.05 million for the Droid
Remember when Apple sent out that press release saying they sold 1 million of their highly anticipated iPhone? Where were you when it hit the newswire? It took 74 days for Apple to do it, and that’s the benchmark that most new phones will be measured against. Flurry, an application analytics firm that claim at…
Spectrum auction in the UK may be delayed because Vodafone and O2 don’t like the terms
While America wrapped up their spectrum auction nearly 2 years ago, with Verizon being the winner and announcing that they’ll have an LTE network up and running by the end of this year, many countries on this side of the pond are still flipping through their agendas, trying to find a good date to get…
Deutsche Telekom: We need more bitches up in this management hizzouse
Deutsche Telekom Germany, otherwise known as T-Mobile, will be instituting a quota, more accurately described as goal, to have 30% of their upper a middle management positions be filled by women by the year 2015. “Having a greater number of women at the top will quite simply enable us to operate better” said CEO René…
T-Mobile’s first HSPA+ modem goes on sale
T-Mobile has tweaked the prices of its mobile data plans and introduced its first HSPA+ USB modem. This is cool stuff because it could potentially get you 21 Mbps on the go. The webConnect Rocket USB laptop stick will be sold for $99 with a two-year contract and it will get you souped-up 3G and…
AmazonWireless Expands T-Mobile Selection
The good folks at AmazonWireless (Amazon’s wireless store) have announced an expansion of their T-Mobile offerings. The new devices are of course rebate-free, and still come with speedy two-day shipping. So what are the ‘newbies’ to the scene? I’ve included a list below: BlackBerry Bold 9700 – Titanium BlackBerry Curve 8520 – Black BlackBerry Curve…
T-Mobile UK and Orange UK merger cleared by EU Commission
The European Commission has informed Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom that it has granted clearance for the proposed merger of their UK-business operations – otherwise known as T-Mobile UK, and Orange UK, respectively. The implementation of the integration measures can start immediately, with the closing of the transaction expected in Spring. Deutsche Telekom and France…
Nokia 5230 XpressMusic Nuron in the flesh!
Nokia’s Nuron is already officially official and just waiting to go live on T-Mobile’s network on March 17th, and that means there are already plenty of pre-launch Nurons running around in the wild. Today, we have our first shots of the latest Nokia music-phone in the flesh, showing its T-Mobile branding and touchscreen. Those of…
T-Mobile invites us to play with HTC HD2
We’re already seeing the HTC HD2 in the wild and we’ll be getting a much closer look at the handset during a T-Mobile event March 16. We’ll know a lot more come next Tuesday, but the stars are aligning for a March 24 release for about $199 with a new, two-year contract. With a 1Ghz…