While the US side of T-Mobile’s operations has seen more than 1,000,000 (1 million) T-Mobile G1’s finding homes in subscribers’ pockets, T-Mobile UK is on track to sell 100,000 of the Android-powered smartphones in time for the release of the much-anticipated Android 1.5 Cupcake update. T-Mobile says that it will have sold 100,000 G1 handsets…
Coming Soon: Nokia XpressMusic 5800 Star Trek Edition!
Calling all Trekkies. Your touchscreen smartphone has arrived! There’s likely a pretty significant overlap between Trekkies and mobile enthusiasts. Case in point, myself. I’m not ashamed to admit that I have an almost debilitating affinity for mobile phones, nor am I ashamed of being a Star Trek fan. For those of you like me, Nokia’s…
T-Mobile Expecting SureType-esque T349
The Samsung T349 has shown up on what looks like an internal T-Mobile document, featuring most prominently a 20-key layout for fast messaging. Sounds an awful lot like BlackBerry’s SureType, but we won’t get our hate on – in fact, Samsung probably licensed it from RIM. Here are the specs: 20-key keypad 1.3 megapixel camera…
LG GT500 ‘Puccini’ Coming to Rogers, T-Mobile?
According to a rumor starting to spread (thanks to an XML file from the LG website), it looks like the LG GT500 or ‘Puccini’ will be heading north of the border to Rogers… Not only that, but the latest word is the LG GT500 could hit T-Mobile in a month or so. Stay tuned for…
T-Mobile unveils embedded SIM that fits on a pin
The GSM SIM card. We all know what they look like. That little rectangular piece of metal-laden plastic lying underneath your mobile phone’s battery is the key that opens the door to your GSM carrier’s network. But, they’re apparently too big and awkward for T-Mobile. In a bid to expand Deutsche Telekom-owned T-Mobile USA’s reach…
Android Cupcake Update Coming to T-Mobile Germany in May
The software development kit for Android 1.5 has already been released to programmers, but the update itself is still a work in progress. Luckily, T-Mobile Germany has mentioned that the update should be available next month, including features like: Additional on-screen keyboard – you decide how you enter your messages Video recording and playback Pictures…
PA man attempts text messaging record, ends up with $26,000 bill
In a world where “unlimited” usually means “limited,” it’s not hard to see how one Philadelphia man’s attempt to break the world’s one-month text messaging record netted him a whopping $26,000 phone bill. In their attempt to set a new world record, two friends from Pennsylvania racked up an impressive 217,000 SMS text messages in…
T-Mobile Sells 1 Million G1’s in US
It’s not all bad news for T-Mobile these days. Sure, Q1 financial results were not-so-rosy, but lets try and stay positive today. T-Mobile has now passed the 1-million G1 units sold in the US. That’s a lot of G1’s to make it into the mobile-hungry market, especially when you consider T-Mo’s size in comparison to…
T-Mobile Q1 Financial Results Not-So-Rosy
2008 was solid for T-Mobile. 30 million customers, almost 1 million new subscribers, and things were looking great… That was, until the latter part of last year when things took a turn for the worse. Now, after having released their Q1 results for 2009 we can clearly see that T-Mobile is facing the heat. Only…
HTC Touch Pro2 spotted as T-Mobile Wing II in the wild!
We’ve been expecting T-Mobile USA to launch the highly-anticipated HTC Touch Pro2 on July 22. T-Mobile will be rebranding the HTC Touch Pro2 as the T-Mobile Wing II – as a successor to the original T-Mobile Wing, which also happens to be an HTC smartphone (the HTC P4350 Herald, to be exact). And, now that…