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T-Mobile Announces Sony Ericsson Equinox with Customizable Light Effects

Kim Poh Liaw — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:50:42 +0000

The Sony Ericsson Equinox, available exclusively from T-Mobile, combines style and substance. Featuring external light effects and a customizable pulse light, this fashionable flip phone will have heads turning. In addition, the Equinox is a great companion while on the go with built-in A-GPS with available Location Based Services by TeleNav, a 3.2 megapixel camera with video capture, music and video player, stereo Bluetooth and an FM radio.

Sony Ericsson Equinox Features Include:

3.2 megapixel camera with digital zoom, video capture and playback
M2 memory card slot for up to 8 GB of optional removable memory
Music player supports MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, MPEG4, WAV and MIDI
Stereo Bluetooth
FM radio
Support for SMS, MMS, instant messaging (IM) and e-mail
IM support: AIM, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger
E-mail support: AOL, Gmail, IMAP, additional POP3 accounts,
Web access through T-Mobile web2go
A-GPS with Location Based Services by TeleNav
Quad-band GSM world phone (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
UMTS/HSDPA-capable (1700/2100 – AWS Band IV)
Display: 2.2-inch diagonal; 240 x 320 pixels, 262k TFT and QVGA display
3.8 x 0.6 x 2.0 inches; 3.3 ounces

The Sony Ericsson Equinox will be available in October for $49.99 with a two-year service agreement and mail-in-rebate at select T-Mobile retail stores.

T-Mobile myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition

Kim Poh Liaw — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:10:21 +0000

Need something special from a T-Mobile myTouch 3G? The company is launching the Fender Limited Edition, comes with a guitar-inspired wood-grain finish on it whole phone body. The Fender limited edition also bundled with a 16GB microSD card, stored with video and audio clips by iconic musicians. No words on the pricing and availability date though.

[via engadgetmobile]

Samsung Delivers its Android Smartphone Behold II for T-Mobile

Kim Poh Liaw — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:31:02 +0000

Samsung and T-Mobile USA today announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Behold II Android smartphone (SGH-t939). The Behold II looks similar to Samsung i7500, comes with a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen, TouchWiz user interface with widgets on the home screen. The Behold II also offers three different homescreens to drag and drop widgets onto the screen and organize the different workspaces with favorite widgets and application shortcuts.

The Behold II will keep customers organized and entertained with access to built-in Google mobile services, including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube and Google Talk as well as thousands of applications and games available for download from Android Market. The Wi-Fi-enabled Behold II also supports personal email and corporate email with Exchange ActiveSync, as well as instant messaging, and text, picture and video messaging. Additional features include a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, flash, five shooting modes and video capabilities, visual voicemail which allows customers to listen to voicemails in order of preference, MP3 player, up to 16GB of external memory, assisted GPS and Bluetooth 2.1.

[via engadgetmobile]

T-Mobile Pulse Android Smartphone Announced for UK

Kim Poh Liaw — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:47:37 +0000

Made by HuaWei, T-Mobile Pulse has been announced today and will be available next month in UK. The T-Mobile Pulse is the third Android-based smartphone in T-Mobile’s mobile-device portfolio. In addition, the T-Mobile Pulse is the first Android-based smartphone that supports both the MyCommunity and Media Center services.

Via MyCommunity, users can keep constant track of their contacts and get in touch with any of them by phone call, text message or their on-line community. The Media Center allows user to select personal media content for viewing on their smartphone, computer or TV set via Entertain and for sharing with other people.

The HSPA technology used by the T-Mobile Pulse supports Internet connections of up to 7.2 Mbps downstream and 2 Mbps upstream. The Pulse also comes with a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera, GPS, 3.5mm headphone jack, Bluetooth and microSD card slot.

Dimensions (LxWxH): 135 x 62.5 x 13.6 mm
Weight: 135 g
Standby: Up to 300 hours
Talk time: Up to 210 minutes
GSM frequency band (MHz): Quad-band (850/900/1800/1900)
UMTS / HSDPA / HSUPA / GPRS / EDGE
Display: TFT color display, 480 x 320 pixels, 16 million colors
Camera: 3.2 megapixels
Processor: Qualcomm 7200A 528 MHz
Internal memory: 256 MB flash memory
microSD card slot
Bluetooth, WLAN

[via slashgear]

T-Mobile myTouch 3G Available from T-Mobile USA Today

Kim Poh Liaw — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:09:41 +0000

T-Mobile USA today announced the national retail availability of the T-Mobile myTouch 3G Android smartphone. The MyTouch 3G is available in black, white or merlot color and priced at $199.99 with a 2 years service contract. [via slashgear]

T-Mobile has also launched a new application within the Market called AppPack, which highlights a sampling of noteworthy applications to help customers further personalize their myTouch 3G and manage their T-Mobile accounts. At launch, AppPack includes the following applications that are free:

Sherpa, created by Geodelic, Sherpa learns a person’s likes and dislikes through behavior and user feedback, prioritizing recommended retailers, restaurants and attractions. Sherpa features a learning machine that automatically customizes itself to the user’s preferences.
imeem Mobile streams music customized to your tastes, recommending new songs and artists based on which songs you identify as your favorites.
WorldTour puts live webcams from around the world onto your home screen.
Phonebook offers an upgraded, more personalized phonebook for Android.
FreshFace is a theme engine to further customize your myTouch.
Movies by Flixster takes the aspect of movie reviews to the next level. Through integration with Facebook, you can find friends who also want to see that movie or read reviews from friends who have already seen it.
Three T-Mobile applications will also be featured: T-Mobile My Account; T-Mobile Visual Voicemail; and T-Mobile Mobile Backup.

HTC Touch Pro2 Going to T-Mobile USA

Kim Poh Liaw — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:40:56 +0000

T-Mobile USA and HTC today announced that it will start offering the HTC Touch Pro2 beginning Aug. 12. The HTC Touch Pro2 is powered by HTC’s TouchFLO 3D interface, has a sliding QWERTY keyboard, 3.2 megapixel camera, bluetooth, WiFi and built in GPS. The device is ship with Windows Mobile 6.1, though, it is not sure if Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade is included in the future.

[via gizmodo]

Rumor: Samsung SGH-T939 Behold2 Going to T-Mobile with Android OS

Kim Poh Liaw — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:15:34 +0000

While the Samsung SGH-T939 Behold2 is approved by WiFi Alliance, a handset profile xml is suggesting the Behold2 to be running Android OS for T-Mobile subscribers. There is no further specification detail available for now, at least T-Mobile users can expect to have more choices other than the T-Mobile G1 and myTouch3G.

[via cellphonesignal]

T-Mobile to offer HTC Hero as G2 Touch in UK

Kim Poh Liaw — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:57:21 +0000

To be available in Orange UK this month, T-Mobile UK has “announced” in twitter that it will also offer the HTC Hero for its mobile subscribers. Similar to the first HTC Android phone, it is renaming the HTC Hero to T-Mobile G2 Touch. The smartphone is offered free if customer signed a 18-month service contract at £40 per month. [via Android Community]

T-Mobile Start Accepting myTouch 3G Pre Order

Kim Poh Liaw — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:35:26 +0000

T-Mobile USA announced today the beginning of its special pre-sale program for the T-Mobile myTouch 3G Android smartphone. Existing customers who order the device during the pre-sale period from July 8–28 can qualify for myTouch 3G delivery before the national retail launch. T-Mobile today announced national retail availability of the device will begin on Aug. 5.

T-Mobile customers have the opportunity to pre-order myTouch, in limited quantities, beginning today at http://www.T-MobilemyTouch.com. myTouch will be available nationwide at T-Mobile retail stores and online beginning August 5 for $199.99 with a two-year agreement.

Also called HTC Magic, the myTouch 3G is the second Android smartphone from HTC. The latest HTC Hero might not be available for T-Mobile subscribers, according to T-Mobile’s CTO Cole Brodman.

[via Android Community]

T-Mobile Dash 3G Hands On Video on PhoneMag

Kim Poh Liaw — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:37:13 +0000

Need an affordable smartphone with QWERTY keyboard? PhoneMag has done a hands on video with initial impression on the new T-Mobile Dash 3G, which is also called HTC Snap in other regions. Compare to the Dash 3G’s predecessor, the Dash 3G has a trackball at the middle instead of the 4-way navigation keys. Check out the hands on video here or proceed to PhoneMag for the initial impression. A full review will be posted on the site soon.