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T-Mobile

T-Mobile announces Valentine’s Day sale, all phones free February 11

by Kevin Krause on February 7th, 2012

T-Mobile wants to help you stay connected with loved ones this Valentine’s day by offering all smartphones and select tablets free with a new two-year service plan. On February 11th, new and existing customers signing up for T-Mobile’s Classic Plan or Unlimited Value Plan will be able to take advantage of savings on devices such [...]

Rumor: T-Mobile to have all handsets free after mail-in rebate this February 11th

by Edgar Cervantes on February 5th, 2012

T-Mobile subscribers looking to purchase a new phone might want to wait just a bit more. According to TmoNews‘ secret tipster, Magenta is getting ready for an “All Hands Day” sale, in which all devices will be completely free, after a mail-in rebate. According to this Ninja, this offer will run only for a day [...]

T-Mobile To Limit Data Once Again – This Time With New Roaming Data Allotments

by Chris Chavez on January 30th, 2012

When it comes to carriers, wireless data has been turning into quite the commodity over the past few months. This is made no better evident than the amount of ways carriers are amending their policies, tightening up data use wherever they can. T-Mobile — who pretty much introduced US consumers to “throttled unlimited data” — [...]

HTC Amaze 4G, HTC Sensation 4G and More Nearing End-of-Life on T-Mobile?

by Quentyn Kennemer on January 30th, 2012

Some devices survive a mobile lifetime without hitting end of life while others are decommissioned faster than the season in which they launched is over. It looks like T-Mobile will soon be putting several of their devices on end-of-life, many of them being Android-based handsets. Highlights include the HTC Sensation 4G, the HTC Amaze 4G. [...]

Sony Xperia S makes a visit to the FCC

by Kevin Krause on January 27th, 2012

The Sony Xperia S has made the prerequisite visit to the FCC en route to release and had all sorts of connectivity in two. The handset’s quad-band GMS/EDGE radio was put through its paces on the 850/900/1900/2100 UMTS bands along with HSPA, RFID, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and GPS. We also can’t forget [...]

T-Mobile Cities Receiving $1 Billion In AT&T Spectrum Revealed – Did Your City Benefit?

by Chris Chavez on January 24th, 2012

If you were wondering where T-Mobile was going to distribute the $1 billion in extra spectrum they scored from AT&T as part of the deal from their failed merger, the FCC filing we told you about yesterday was able to provide this nice coverage map. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like $1 billion in spectrum alone [...]

Unlocked Sony Xperia Ion up for pre-order through third-party retailer, priced at $570

by Kevin Krause on January 23rd, 2012

Sony is set to launch their Xperia Ion on AT&T in a few weeks and at least one third-party retailer is already offering the unlocked, SIM-free version of the phone for pre-sale. Listed at price of $569.50 at Negri Electronics, purchasing the handset for a US network other than AT&T won’t be very fruitful — [...]

T-Mobile “Secret” Data Promotion Leaked – Free Mobile Hotspot On 5GB or 10GB Data Plans

by Chris Chavez on January 18th, 2012

Not yet down for the count, T-Mobile is attempting to stay competitive in 2012 with a pair of new “secret” promotional data feature bundles. Starting January 25th, T-Mobile will begin throwing in both their Smartphone Mobile Hotspot and MobileLife Album Plus services for free with either the Unlimited-Premium 5GB or 10GB plans. All-in-all, customers can [...]

Walmart Introduces New Contract Free Family Plan From T-Mobile – Unlimited Talk, Text and Web For $45

by Chris Chavez on January 18th, 2012

Walmart is proving themselves once again to be the low price leader, this time when it comes to cellphone plans. The retailer is partnering up with T-Mobile to offer one of the country’s lowest unlimited family plans to date. $45 a month will get you unlimited talk, text and web with NO contract and adding [...]

Top Selling Devices For 2011 (iPhone 4S Tops All)

by Chris Chavez on January 16th, 2012

There’s no doubt that just like the year before it, 2011 was a tremendous year for Android. Even though many like to lump all Android devices into one as far as market share is concerned, not all is “kumbaya” in the world of Google’s mobile OS especially when Android OEM’s compete viciously with each other [...]

HTC Ville With Android 4.0 Headed To T-Mobile Later This Year? [Rumor]

by Chris Chavez on January 16th, 2012

If you’re a T-Mobile customer and the recent news of Galaxy Nexi and other high-end, Ice Cream Sandwich packing superphones arriving this year for all those other carriers has got you down, things may start looking up for ‘ol #4 in 2012. According to Pocketnow, the rumored HTC Ville could be making its way to [...]

T-Mobile Finalizes Business Plan to Sell Towers

by Quentyn Kennemer on January 11th, 2012

After the failed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile many were wondering what DT and their US subsidiary would do to help keep the company competitive. It appears that improving their network is near the top of their list according to a new business plan they’re preparing. T-Mobile will apparently look to sell towers, among other [...]

T-Mobile Offering New Year’s Discount on a New Phone this Weekend

by Kevin Krause on January 3rd, 2012

It’s a new year and T-Mobile thinks it’s time for you to pick up a new phone. If you didn’t get the smartphone you were so desiring as a gift this holiday season, you can treat yourself thanks to the reduced rates TMo is offering on some of their most popular Android smartphones. From January [...]

Best Buy’s Deal of the Day is a Free MyTouch 4G Slide

by Quentyn Kennemer on December 29th, 2011

If you’re still checking for this phone (perhaps as a gift or if you just happen to like HTC slider phones) Best Buy is offering one as their deal of the day. It’s free on a new two-year agreement, a good deal for a device that’s as good as it’ll get for the market it’s [...]

HTCDev.com Adds Unlock Support for T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide, HTC EVO View 4G

by Quentyn Kennemer on December 28th, 2011

Those of you who aren’t keen on using community-developed tools to unlock their HTC devices’ bootloaders have been graced with a great program by HTC. They officially allow you to unlock your bootloader in a safe way, though it may void your warranty as they will know which phones have been unlocked through their tool. [...]

Hacker Finds Major Security Flaw In GSM Networks – All Phones Vulnerable

by Chris Chavez on December 27th, 2011

A vulnerability was discovered in GSM networks — the same type of network T-Mobile and AT&T operate on — that could allow for a hacker or an otherwise nefarious character, to gain full remote control of any smartphone running on those types of networks (Sprint and Verizon are in the clear). The security flaw was [...]

Custom ROM Makes ICS Face Unlock Available to Nexus S Users

by Kevin Krause on December 26th, 2011

What’s better than unlocking your phone with your finger? Unlocking your phone with your FACE. And now even the Nexus S will drop its lockscreen at the sight of your beautiful face. A custom ROM is necessary (of course), but the best Galaxy Nexus party trick is available for both the GSM Nexus S and [...]

Settlement Detailed in Now Defunct AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

by Kevin Krause on December 20th, 2011

AT&T and T-Mobile have called off talks of a merger after some serious federal opposition, but there is still some unfinished business left to attend to. As repayment for the failure to close on a deal, AT&T owes a sum of $3 billion to T-Mobile’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom. TMo will see none of that [...]

AT&T Throws the Towel in on T-Mobile Acquisition

by Quentyn Kennemer on December 19th, 2011

And just like that, T-Mobile is safe (for now). AT&T has announced that they’re ending bids to acquire T-Mobile up against heavy resistance from the FCC and the Department of Justice. Because the deal, which was expected to be accepted and in the finalizing stages in the first couple of months of 2012, fell through, [...]

Featured Video of the Day: Camera Battle between HTC Amaze 4G and iPhone 4S [Sponsored Post]

by Kevin Krause on December 14th, 2011

Apple made a pretty big deal out of the camera on their iPhone 4S, but can it win a head-to-head battle with the HTC Amaze 4G? And we aren’t just talking a sheer spec comparison. Even if we were the Amaze 4G’s 8MP camera still boasts several features that offer a unique advantage over the [...]