Today, T-Mobile announced that it is teaming up with the other two major U.S carriers, AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless to bring Isis, a mobile payment system to customers. Isis will use near-field communication (NFC) based technology to allow smartphone owners to use their handsets as a form of payment, thus replacing the need to carry around [read full article]
Although we already knew that a new plan for customers that want to Tether was coming soon and then yesteday, confirmed for November 3rd, the folks over at BGR have recieved details on the new tethering plan. T-Mobile will officially offer the $14.99 /MonthTethering and WiFi-Sharing Add-On beginning November 3rd. The plan will allow subscribers to use … [read full article]
Hot on the heels of confirmation regarding a November 3rd launch of myTouch 4G and I mean literally minutes later comes yet another source of confirmation regarding upcoming launches. While we don’t see anything brand spanking new on the above screen shot, it does confirm pretty much all of our rumored information for a massive November 3rd launch. … [read full article]
Well, its over! T-Mobile has ended its year old search deal with Yahoo. It comes as no surprise to hear that Magenta has replaced Yahoo with its biggest rival—Google. The deal is important because it now shifts search dominance away from Yahoo, as the Big G is now working exclusively with two of the top four carriers in the United States. A Yahoo spokesperson said that Yahoo will still be working with the fourth-largest U.S. carrier on … [read full article]
Magenta has something special for the top 2% of their customers brewing slowly on their website. It seems some users have been contacted last night and this morning to be offered a preview of a new program called My T-Mobile Perks. Membership to the new program is completely free and doesn’t require you to do any fancy tricks to sign up. Just click the link in the email, sign in, and then confirm you want to join … [read full article]
T-Mobile will be doing a software trial for G1 users only. This will NOT be the rumored Eclair update, sorry to say. However, this trial will reflect features similar to Google Voice integrated into the stock dialer app. It will allow you to set numbers to be ignored, integrate Visual Voicemail, and and some other goodies. Once this software comes out of trial status, there will be other features, too, but we can’t talk about those just … [read full article]
As you probably all already know, T-Mobile announced its new Even More plans in late October. But it looks like that’s not all T-Mobile is rolling out this year. Thanks to our trusty tipster, T-Mobile will be offering T-Mobile Complete. T-Mobile Complete is a pre-packaged, no-annual contract solution that offers the value of a monthly plan and the first pay-in-advance BlackBerry smartphone from a national U.S. carrier. This will be … [read full article]
Soon, T-Mobile will be set up to allow corporate customers who use Blackberries to make calls over their office Wi-Fi connections without using up cell plan minutes (hey, this sounds familiar). Then, as a neat trick, the call will be automatically switched to T-Mobiles network after said Blackberry user is outside of their Wi-Fi network’s range. T-Mobile “will charge a flat monthly fee on top of cellular rates,” all in an effort … [read full article]
Have you ever found yourself someplace new and not know what to find around you? Well, there is an app for that, and it is coming to T-Mobile phones. T-Mobile will be offering the WHERE service through Web2Go for $2.99 per month. Until further notice, only G1, Blackberry Curves, Samsung Memoirs and Beholds will be available to download this service. Not familiar with WHERE? Well, they do a pretty good job of explaining what this app is … [read full article]
You may recall our earlier story about T-Mobile’s upcoming Equipment Installment Plan, which is set to begin on November 16, well we have a little more information about this interesting option which you might be interested in. First off, let me just let you know what this is not: it isn’t really an offer of credit and is not going to have any interest or APR involved, so … [read full article]
