This is an awesome story. Blogger Jesse Bearden and his buddy Sean had a not-so-chance encounter with Shaquille O’Neal at a local diner the other day. The two friends were trying to decide whether THE_REAL_SHAQ was indeed the real basketball player, or just someone out there having a little fun. After having received a tweet…
Google Demos a T-Mobile G2?
While speaking at a conference earlier today, Google was busy showing off Gmail running on Android. All well and good, but something was a tad strange about the presentation. Check out the image I’ve included here. Doesn’t that look like a T-Mobile logo on the handset? Sure does! I thought the HTC Magic was supposed…
T-Mobile UK Publishes List of Top 10 Android Apps
T-Mobile UK has released stats on the most popular Android apps within the country. The list is somewhat interesting, but not really surprising for any G1 user. A similar list of top 10 Android Apps in the US was published earlier (I’ll include this below as well), and there are some similarities. So what are…
T-Mobile Prepping New Loyalty Plans for Existing Customers?
In the upcoming weeks and months, T-Mobile is preparing to offer a bunch of new price plans and options for current customers. A leaked screenshot has come out that is chalked-full of some decent deals from the T-Mo… In particular, $50/month for unlimited anytime minutes with long distance, three-way calling, caller ID and voicemail. Family…
Nokia, T-Mobile team-up on integrated mobile content marketplace
Nokia and T-Mobile issued a release today saying that they’ve agreed to promote together their respective offering for widgets, applications and other content. There are some things I don’t quite understand. Here’s an excerpt from the press release: The customer can browse and download widgets from both the T-Mobile widget gallery and Nokia’s Ovi Store…
Samsung Launches T-Mobile Memoir, Endorsed by Pretty Girls
Behold, (no, not that one, wrong Samsung device) the glory of Helena Christensen’s jaw-slackening beauty hath declared the Samsung Memoir the lord of all cameraphones, rendering all lesser 8-megapixel camera-bearing devices impotent with lust. As if all that teasing on T-Mobile’s newsletter wasn’t enough to get your average gadget pron geek riled up. Samsung has…
Google preparing paid Android apps for next week!
We love it when a rumor comes together. Even better when one of our own rumors pans out. Earlier this week, we mentioned a rumor that had Google pushing out premium Android applications through the Android Market before the week’s end. The web was ablaze with speculation that paid Android apps would go live this…
T-Mobile unleashes BlackBerry Curve 8900 on US soil!
It’s finally here! The BlackBerry Bold 9000’s slimmer, 3G-less sibling has just left T-Mobile’s starting gates as the latest BlackBerry Curve to hit American soil. The BlackBerry Curve 8900 has been launched by T-Mobile for the right-old sum of $199.99 when purchase with new, 2-year contract. Unfortunately, the announcement is a bit anti-climactic for BlackBerry…
Paid Android apps hitting Android Market next week?
Could Google be gearing up to offer paid apps in the Android Market starting next week? It might just happen. We’ve been expecting Google to start accepting premium, for-pay Android applications into the Android Market sometime in this half of 2009. And, with T-Mobile currently rolling out the Android RC33 update to T-Mobile G1 owners…
3G-Less Entry-Level iPhone, Upgraded iPhone 3G Rumoured
RBC Capital Market’s Michael Abramsky has issued a note to investors about upcoming iPhone models. Remember, financial analysts are just as prone to get lumped into the rumor category as the rest of us, but here are the supposed specs on the two new devices (one entry-level, one an upgrade on the existing iPhone 3G):…