Tag: TMOBILE

The Sidekick data outage has passed the one-week mark and is quickly closing in on two. What was supposed to be a day or two of inconvenience for customers has turned into an epic public relations disaster for T-Mobile, Microsoft, Danger, and the very concept of cloud computing. Since the outage began last Friday, many users are still without access to personal data stored on Danger and ...

David Pogue, New York Times tech writer extraordinaire, took to the Web two weeks ago in a campaign to force cell phone carriers to delete time-wasting, pre-voicemail instructions. Pogue writes that over 28,032 blogs have rallied behind the Take Back the Beep campaign, and "thousands and thousands" of complaints have been sent to Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint. So, two weeks in, how ...

What it is: The myTouch 3G, the second Android smartphone (aka "Googlephone") to be introduced by T-Mobile, after the G1, is essentially a re-branded HTC Magic. What's different about it? Unlike the G1 (the first "Googlephone"), the myTouch opts for a touchscreen-based interface, dropping the physical keyboard. The Android 1.5 ("Cupcake") operating system and marketplace have come a ...

Dropped calls ruining your friendships, business relationships, and/or hairline? In a rather unscientific (but perhaps telling) survey, research company ChangeWave asked 3,800 cell phone owners to estimate what percentage of their calls were dropped during the past 90 days. Verizon was the clear winner, with customers reporting an average of just 2.2-percent of their calls dropped; Sprint came ...

Bad news Google-philes, T-Mobile has stopped taking pre-orders for the Android-powered G1, at least for now. Apparently, demand for for the new handset has been so high that T-Mobile has ceased being able to even estimate when you might be able to get your hands on the device. Attempting to order the device results in this message being displayed: "Sorry! Due to the overwhelming popularity of ...

Snap -- looks like the Android-powered T-Mobile G1 is peeking out a little early in the form of a non-working pre-registration link on the my.t-mobile.com customer portal. No specs or info, but if you had any doubt this thing was coming on Tuesday we'd say it just got cleared up. Get ready for the Googlephone, kids. [Thanks, RionSTL and Mike] ...

After all the buffoonery over what exactly T-Mobile intended to call its newest entry-level Danger handheld device, the carrier has ultimately decided to just go back to basics, drop the acronyms, and christen its new phone simply "Sidekick." Make no mistake, though -- this little puppy, which launches today, is a far cry from your daddy's Hiptop launched way back in 2002, thanks to a 400 x 240 ...

T-Mobile's no stranger to Nokia's XpressMusic series of funky little music phones, and the tradition continues today with the introduction of the 5310. This colorful candybar has some pretty solid street cred as a viable music player, too, with a microSD slot, svelte 9.9mm body and -- most importantly -- a real 3.5mm jack for the headphones of your choosing. You've also got a 2 megapixel camera ...

We'd recommend taking this one with a healthy dose of salt, but word on the street has it that Tony Hawk -- being the unashamed Sidekick lover that he is -- is gearing up to receive his very own limited edition LX. Oh, and his adoring fans can snap one up too if they're quick. Details about the unit itself are scant, but it will obviously be Tony Hawk-branded and able to do a 900 on command. We ...

Well, they're a little late to the party, but AT&T is finally warming up to Google's phone OS, Android. T-Mobile and Sprint and members of the Open Handset Alliance, which champions Google's new Linux-based platform, and Verizon has promised to make its network open to any device, a move that likely had Android devices specifically in mind. At the CTIA wireless show in Vegas AT&T Mobility ...

According the Inquirer, there will be a major announcement regarding the oft-rumored and much-needed 3G upgrade for T-Mobile in the United States. The announcement is supposedly set for December 6th, just over a week away. This would mean that T-Mobile users might one day finally be able to get the near-broadband speeds for Web surfing and music and video downloading on their phones that people ...

Apple struck an exclusive deal with T-Mobile Germany to sell and support the iPhone, similar to the agreement it has with AT&T here in the states. However, locked handsets and exclusive arrangements aren't as easily accepted in the EU. The German branch of competitor Vodafone obtained a court injunction against the deal, claiming that the exclusive arrangement wasn't acceptable under German ...

The U.S. arm of T-Mobile is joining the rest of America's cell-phone carriers in the 21st-century by preparing to deploy its high-speed 3G wireless data network... or so we assume/hope. The carrier began selling the Samsung T639 handset, the first T-Mobile device to be capable of running on a 3G network. The new phone carries a radio that allows it to work on a WCDMA network at 1700 Mhz, the ...

If it wasn't annoying enough that your Sidekick-lugging friend never signed off AIM and spent his/her entire time instant messaging other people while you were supposedly hanging out in real life, now he can stay on MySpace the entire time. Oh, joy. Starting this week, T-Mobile will roll out an upgrade to all Sidekick 3's and Sidekick ID's with a custom MySpace app. The app will let you do all ...

September 7th, 1987 was the day that the mobile phone industry as we know it was born. 20 years ago, 15 companies signed a pact agreeing to build networks based upon a set of standards known as GSM. GSM is the underlying technology for AT&T, T-Mobile, and most overseas operators around the world, including O2, Vodaphone, and Orange. According to the GSM Association, there are over 2.5 billion ...