iPhone and iPad users, it’s time to update. iOS 11.2.5 is now available for the iPhone and iPad. One feature of this update is a fix for a bug called chaiOS. The bug involved a link to a webpage with hundreds of thousands of characters in its metadata which, when sent using Messages, would generate a link preview that could freeze the Messages app and possibly crash the … [read full article]
A little more than a month after T-Mobile announced its plans to get into the TV business, it’s made progress toward that goal. T-Mobile says that it has completed its acquisition of Layer3 TV. Nearly 200 Layer3 TV employees will be joining T-Mobile, including several executives. Layer3 CEO Jeff Binder will become an Executive Vice President and member of … [read full article]
As promised, OpenSignal’s latest report on U.S. mobile networks is in, and T-Mobile nearly won every award. OpenSignal today shared its State of Mobile Networks: USA report, which examined the networks of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon from October 1, 2017 through December 30, 2017. During this period, OpenSignal looked at … [read full article]
T-Mobile is now sending security updates to two flagship Android smartphones. First up, the Samsung Galaxy S8 Active is now receiving a 99.38MB update to version G892USQS1ARA1. The update changelog only says “The security of your device has been improved”, and after updating, the About Phone screen shows that the GS8 Active is now on the January 1, 2018 Android security patch level. T-Mobile’s support page says that this Galaxy S8 Active update also includes various bug … [read full article]
One day after OpenSignal said that T-Mobile had the fastest average LTE download speeds of major U.S. carriers, T-Mo has won another award. J.D. Power says that T-Mobile offers the best wireless customer care in its first 2018 studies. T-Mo finished with 828 points out of 1,000 while Verizon came in second with 822 … [read full article]
Today OpenSignal gave us an update on how AT&T and Verizon’s networks have been faring one year after launching unlimited data plans, and there’s some T-Mobile news sprinkled in there, too. OpenSignal reports that while AT&T and Verizon saw their LTE download speeds decrease in the months after launching unlimited plans, those speeds began to stabilize near the end … [read full article]
Turns out that yesterday’s Maze Runner prize was the start of a new partnership between T-Mobile and Twentieth Century Fox. T-Mobile customers will be able to buy $4 movie tickets to five upcoming Twentieth Century Fox films for T-Mobile Tuesdays. The deals will … [read full article]
Much like it did in Houston before last year’s Super Bowl, T-Mobile has rolled out network upgrades in Minneapolis before this year’s big game. T-Mobile touts that it’s been spending the last two years expanding coverage and increasing its LTE capacity by up to 35x in the Twin Cities. Network capacity grew by … [read full article]
UPDATE 2: After an outage that lasted several hours, it looks like service has been restored for T-Mobile customers traveling internationally. UPDATE: T-Mobile has told me that it’s aware of the issue and that its engineers are working to resolve it. Looks like T-Mobile’s weekend is off to a bit of a rocky start. T-Mobile appears to be suffering from an international roaming outage. Many customers on Twitter and … [read full article]
It’s expected that Samsung will introduce the Galaxy S9 at MWC next month, but some important details of the upcoming flagship appear to have been revealed today. The Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ appear to have passed through the FCC. The listings are for two Samsung devices … [read full article]
Here’s what T-Mobile has planned for next week’s T-Mobile Tuesday. The January 16th edition of T-Mobile Tuesdays will include a Buy One, Get One pretzel deal from Auntie Anne’s. If you didn’t get a free original pretzel from Auntie Anne’s last week, then this might be your week to … [read full article]
In addition to announcing an upcoming Buy One, Get One deal, T-Mobile today shared some news on its #GetOutoftheRed promotion. T-Mobile says that the Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, and iPhone X are now eligible for its #GetOutoftheRed offer. This brings the number of phones that are eligible for this promo up to 13. #GetOutoftheRed [read full article]
