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T-Mobile will be adding a new Samsung-made Android smartphone to its portfolio. The Galaxy S Relay 4G is a side-slider with 5-row keyboard and 4-inch Super AMOLED screen. In addition, it also has a 5-megapixel rear camera, 1.3-megapixel front-facing one, support for HSPA+ 42Mbps connectivity, while Qualcomm’s dual-core Snapdragon S3 CPU clocked at 1.5GHz provides…
Today is a special day for T-Mobile for more than one reason. It marks the 10th anniversary of the T-Mobile brand in the United States. Its success so far isn’t too shabby, since it is the fourth largest wireless carrier in the country. In celebration of the big day, the carrier is launching unlimited nationwide…
If you’re looking for a decent great Android smartphone but don’t want to commit on any carrier contracts, T-Mobile and Walmart may have something for you. Now you can get yourself the Samsung Galaxy S II for $299 from the big retail chain. Of course, you’ll also need some minutes, texts and data, and T-Mobile…
The FCC gave a formal blessing last week of Verizon’s deal with multiple cable companies that saw Big Red acquire lots of AWS spectrum the company needs to build out its LTE network. One of the contingencies in the deal was that Verizon would need to agree to spectrum swaps with T-Mobile USA and Leap…
Tmonews’ David Beren was sent two leaked memos reportedly out of T-Mobile’s internal systems yesterday which suggests that T-Mobile USA might once more be on the outside looking in when it comes to the iPhone. In a training document obtained by Tmonews, T-Mobile is educating its customer sales team on “selling against the iPhone” starting September…
UK carrier Everything Everywhere, the joint venture between T-Mobile and Orange, has announced a 5 year deal with MasterCard that will bring NFC payments to customers at over 100,000 retail outlets in the UK. The move will also bring person to person (p2p) payments to Everything Everywhere, a feature that will roll out at a…
A reliable industry source told Android Police that T-Mobile is already discontinuing the device a few weeks after it started selling the tablet. T-Mobile supposedly set a tentative EOL date of November 1st, but that date may change depending on how fast T-Mobile can sell throughout its standing inventory. A second contradictory report from Business…
Last week, the Department of Justice approved Verizon’s pending AWS spectrum purchase from the cable companies, leaving the FCC as the lone holdout. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski advised the committee to approve the deal, and today the committee voted to do just that. The FCC did put some contingencies on the deal; Verizon will have to…
Today T-Mobile has decided to out do itself in the budget-friendly department. The fourth largest wireless provider announced a no-contract, entry-level Android device tailored to first-time smartphone users called the Concord. The Concord is made by Chinese manufacturer ZTE and will carry a 2-megapixel camera, ship with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and will be equipped with…
Yesterday, news broke that the fourth largest carrier in the U.S. were misleading folks about its latest myTouch brand of phones. The word came from Consumer Reports, when the agency discovered the rear facing cameras on the myTouch and myTouch Q devices were being misrepresented as carrying 5 megapixels. In fact, the handsets were found…