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IKEA Encourages Customers to Unlock Cell Phones
It looks like furniture and Swedish Meatballs wasn’t enough for IKEA. The furniture giant has gone virtual, with a network complete with IKEA sims and co-operation from T-Mobile. IKEA is encouraging its customers to unlock their cell phones and insert the IKEA sim card. Customers can make calls for 9p per call and receive calls for 6p. This whole phone fiasco was started by IKEA in response to the rather pitiful cell phone coverage that customers were receiving in IKEA stores. Sounds pretty cheap eh? That’s how things are at IKEA. Will the quality and the reception be any good? Nope, they will probably suck more than the Pittsburgh Pirates during a good season. In any case, give credit to IKEA for…
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T-Mobile to Give Samsungs Away for Free
T-Mobile, apparently in an effort to rid itself of large quantities of cell phones, is offering all their Samsung models for free starting September 3rd. This month long promotion will see T-Mobile customers who are willing to lengthen their contracts, be allowed to pick up a free Samsung, or free after mail in rebate. The Samsung models offered by T-Mobile are as follows:
•Samsung T229: FREE
•Samsung T429: FREE
•Samsung T339: FREE
•Samsung T639: FREE (after $50 MIR)
•Samsung Blast: FREE (after $50 MIR)
•Samsung Katalyst: FREE (after $50 MIR)
•Samsung T819: FREE (after $100 MIR)
T-Mobile should be releasing the Tocco T919 in the near future. Logic…
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T-Mobile is Heading North
The vicious rumors in cyberspace talk of an impending war to take place in the icy north of Canada. The cell phone giant T-Mobile, armed with Catherine Zeta-Jones and billions of dollars may be about set up shop north of the 49th parallel. The sheer thought of a new four way battle between T-Mobile, Telus, Bell and the almighty Rogers is sparking interest on both sides of the border. The three Canadian contestants in this speculated struggle are probably freely urinating in their trousers at that thought of another major carrier entering a relatively small market. It remains to be seen whether or not Canadians will embrace T-Mobile, because Canadians have proven track record of rejecting anything that is…
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T-Mobile Announces New Family Allowance Feature
T-Mobile has apparently headed the call of disgruntled parents when they created the new Family Allowance feature. For a measly two dollars a month, parents can enjoy almost tyrannical, Hitler like control over their mobile spending offspring. The T-Mobile Family Allowance lets parents control exactly how much their kids spend on their mobile devices – thus limiting the amount of strokes and brain hemorrhages suffered at the hands of monthly statements. Parents would enjoy control over the time of day children used their phone and could even punish them by limiting the allowance to zero. Family plans such as myFaves and T-Mobile to T-Mobile would be unaffected which allows maximum value for those family plans. Adolescent handlers can even set certain numbers to always…
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T-Mobile to launch Oct. 1st
T-Mobile has planned a number of changes to its service towards the end of 2008, according to unconfirmed reports. Among these is a second indication that the company will launch its 3G broadband network on October 1st, finally introducing competition for AT&T's HSPA network. It is rumored that on the same date T-Mobile will introduce its first Android phone, a 3G-ready HTC Dream. Android is an open-source platform that will be shared across phones from a number of companies. By the end of the year the carrier is also expected to introduce "MyFaves 2.0," a revision of its unlimited calling plan; though there may be more changes, the major one is said to be a doubling of list size from five callers to 10. The company may also be planning to upgrade its FlexPay…
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T-Mobile gives you a rare option
Sidekick Gekko/Aspen/2008 fans eagerly waiting on T-Mobile to finally go live with the latest Sidekick offering to sport user-swappable face-plates/shells have one more reason to drool over the upcoming HipTop. T-Mobile is reportedly working on a Sidekick 2008 customization portal that gives the user a chance to custom-design their own Sidekick shell. The screenshots you see here are renderings of the actual T-Mobile Sidekick-customizer webpage that's still in development. We're hearing that the custom skins/shells/face-plates will be sourced from SkinIt. The website will apparently feature a Flash-heavy interface with a social-networking aspect that lets users browse and vote on others' creations. Given all the press-materials we've been seeing with piles of Sidekicks…
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NeoNode N2 - An Amazing New Machine By Neonode
it runs on Windows Mobile, it has a user interface that is unique to the brand. The touch screen uses a proprietary infrared technology called zForce designed to work better with fingers, compared to traditional pressure-sensitive touch displays. The NeoNode N2 is incredibly small: 47mmx77mm, 60 grams. It feels good in the hand. The user interface is easy to use. There are only a few basic gestures to learn and I was able to do it in a few minutes on the show floor.
NeoNode N2 is a phone for everyone, not a business phone. The company hopes to reach a "reasonable" (if I hear this word one more time, I will snap) price, once subsidized by a carrier. The company would not tell, but it is a GSM phone, so they have to be talking to Cingular and T-Mobile,…
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Sidekick Slide - the new and improved version or more of the same?
Other than the reduced thickness, the LX is relatively unchanged from the Sidekick 3 as far as the shape and navigation buttons are concerned. The only way a stranger might know you're not using a sidekick 3 is if he noticed how positively huge and bright the new screen is.
Unfortunately the thinner profile has reduced the size of the shoulder and volume buttons beyond what had been done to the Sidekick 3.
Dedicated Sidekick users will appreciate two ways the Sidekick has progressed. Danger has returned to a rubber coated keypad similar to the Sidekick 2. The screen also flips open as easily as it did on the 2. It does not catch on anything and a light tap in the upper right corner easily makes it flip around.
The only part of the LX's design that is not…
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T-Mobile Wins In Court
A German court overturned a temporary order it granted two weeks ago, which forced T-Mobile to sell iPhones that were not tied to a single network. Vodafone objected to the exclusivity agreement and said customers should be able to choose between networks. Apple has similar licensing agreements with O2 in the UK and AT&T in the US.
There has been much speculation about the details of the deals between Apple and the mobile providers, who are reported to be paying the US computer firm anything from 10% to 30% of their iPhone revenues. Apple in turn has warned that hacking into the phone's software could render the phones "permanently inoperable" when it releases software updates. Apple still faces two lawsuits in the US from people alleging that…
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T-Mobile Germany To Sell iPhone Without Contract
This temporary injunction requires T-Mobile to respond within a couple of weeks' time, and Deutsche Telekom -the parent company of T-Mobile aims to upend the ruling by appealing. Should this ruling actually go through, we could see a potential halt of iPhone sales in Germany since both T-Mobile and Apple have come to an agreement that the iPhone can be sold only with a service plan.
For its part, Vodafone - which at one time was in the running for its own exclusive contract to sell iPhone to parts of Europe - claims that it took the matter to court out of fears that other handset makers may follow Apple's example and begin tying their handsets to specific providers, further shredding the German wireless market and say their firm's goal is not to prevent sales…
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