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HTC Confirms One S Upgrade To Jelly Bean Android 4.1 In The Future

HTC has already vaguely spoken at least once regarding future updates to Jelly Bean Android 4.1 for some of its smartphone lineup, but this time they are giving some concrete models. According to a statement provided to Engadget, HTC says: “We know HTC fans are excited to get their hands on Google’s latest version of Android. At this point in time, we can confirm that we have plans to upgrade our HTC One X, HTC One … [read full article]

T-Mobile Galaxy S II Up For CyanogenMod CM9 Release Candidate 2

T-Mobile Galaxy S II owners take note, the CyanogenMod team is getting ready to release Release Candidate 2 for a small group of devices, including the Galaxy S II on T-Mobile. As noted on the CyanogenMod team blog: “This release serves to stabilize CM9 as a product that you’d let your mom use…” Release Candidate 2 includes bug fixes and updated translations all leading to a final release of CM9, which is hopefully right around the … [read full article]

US Labor Department Says T-Mobile USA Moved Jobs Overseas As It Closed Call-Centers

The U.S. Labor Department recently discovered that T-Mobile USA moved jobs overseas after it closed local call-centers amid layoffs of U.S. employees. A Bloomberg report says that the Labor Department findings contradict the company’s claim and provides for workers to apply for government help. “The workers’ firm has acquired from a foreign country services like or directly competitive with services supplied by the workers which contributed importantly to worker group separations at T-Mobile USA,” said the … [read full article]

See The T-Mobile HTC One S In All Black, You Just Can’t Buy It

There it is, the once-thought-not-to-exist black HTC One S complete with T-Mobile branding. Unfortunately you’ll have to contain your excitement as these devices are only being handed out to T-Mobile store reps after achieving certain sales goals with HTC devices. As it stands now, there is no concrete intel that has us believing that T-Mobile will begin selling these in stores. I’ll go on record and say that they absolutely should, this thing is beautiful in … [read full article]

T-Mobile Drops “America’s Largest 4G Network Claim” As Of July 10th

I’m sorry to say that we’ve just heard via a Fierce Wireless story that T-Mobile has discontinued its “America’s Largest 4G Network” tagline after 18 months of use. As of July 10th, T-Mobile will no longer use the phrase “America’s Largest 4G network,” instead focusing on rivaling its competitors with speed in real-world tests. “With the breadth of T-Mobile’s nationwide 4G network well established, we recently moved to a network claim that reflects the network’s performance and … [read full article]

T-Mobile Takes Jabs At New AT&T Shared Data Plans

With T-Mobile already hitting Verizon on their recently announced Share Everything plans, they’re turning their attention to AT&T’s morning announcement of their own shared data plans unveiling in late August. Penned by T-Mobile’s Direct of Product Marketing, Harry Thomas, T-Mobile points out that AT&T’s plans are costly, complicated and overall just not good for the customer. Read the statement below: Slashgear   Full Statement:   “Unlike AT&T and Verizon, T-Mobile does not … [read full article]

T-Mobile Blog Post Highlights Newest Commercial Featuring Network

So, it’s true that we’ve already posted this T-Mobile advertisement — except this time we’re adding in a special word from T-Mobile Senior Vice President of Brand & Advertising Peter DeLuca. Thanks to a press release sent out this afternoon, T-Mobile is letting us all know that Carly strapped on some motorcycle leather, hopped on a 1000cc Ducati super-bike “symbolizing the speed and capability of T-Mobile’s 4G network.” Watch it again, for the very first time. … [read full article]

CyanogenMod Releases Preview Builds For CM10 On The Galaxy S III

Galaxy S III owners looking to get some CyanogenMod 10 action in their life should take note of a new preview build now available for the Galaxy S III. As with all preview builds, this is definitely not a fully baked recipe for CM10, but the preview builds are available over on XDA-Developers. With a preview build, anyone willing to take the leap should recognize that almost nothing is guaranteed to work and it definitely … [read full article]

T-Mobile Nexus S Users Be On The Lookout For Jelly Bean

T-Mobile customers using a Nexus S device should be on the lookout for a possible Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update. We’re urging a bit of patience as so far this news extends only to Nexus S devices overseas and Google has said nothing about US availability for any update today. However, Vodafone Australia is reporting the update for their customers will out sometime around 1:00pm AEST July 19th, which is actually July 18th in the US and … [read full article]

T-Mobile Introduces $50 “Open Europe Plan” For International Business Travelers

T-Mobile’s continued efforts to reinvigorate its business-2-business unit has just been graced with a brand new Europe-wide 500MB roaming plant or $50 per line. The half-gig of data is available on both 3G and 4G networks Europe-wide and just like inside the US, hitting your data limit will lead to throttling rather than overage charges. The plan is available in 28 countries, including Germany, Greece, Italy, Russia, … [read full article]

T-Mobile Officially Announces Galaxy Note, “Coming In A Few Weeks”

Oh T-Mobile, how I love your midnight press releases just moments after I turn the computer off — and you announce the Galaxy Note. Well, technically they announced the Galaxy Note earlier in the day, but with their midnight press release comes a bit of new information, including specs but nothing on price or release date. Let’s get this right out-of-the-way, any hopes for … [read full article]

HTC Era, Blackberry Armstrong Coming To T-Mobile In September?

With T-Mobile now “confirming” the arrival of the Galaxy Note — eventually, we turn our attention to what’s after the Galaxy Note. Well, there are at least two phones coming in September according to a newly leaked document in the HTC Era 42 and Blackberry Armstrong. So what are we looking at? Well, first things first and let’s call this exactly what it is, complete speculation … [read full article]