It’s turning into a day of low-cost Android, it seems, with the T-Mobile Pulse arriving on pre-pay and contract for UK users. The Pulse – made by Huawei – is available from today priced at £176.16 ($282) as a pay-as-you-go device with no contract, or free with an 18-month agreement costing £27.50 ($44) or more.
T-Mobile UK have announced their third Android handset, the T-Mobile Pulse, and for the first time it’s Huawei rather than HTC doing the hardware honors. The Pulse has a 3.5-inch 320 x 480 touchscreen and polished finish, and will also be the first Android phone from the carrier to support pre-pay rather than demand a contract.
It’s certainly not the first we’ve heard of the T-Mobile Pulse – aka the Huawei 8220 – but today’s spilling of information is perhaps the most comprehensive spec sheet and all-round renders we’ve seen so far. The Android OS 1.5 handset has shown up for preorder on a Dutch website, locked to T-Mobile but sold without a contract for €257 ($368) if you’re willing to take your chances with third-party unlock merchants.
UK carrier 3 have become one of the first to sign up with Huawei’s E583X mobile 3G WiFi router,the company’s rival device to Novatel Wireless’ MiFi. Capable of acting both as an individual 3G USB dongle and a WiFi router, sharing the 3G signal among several wireless clients, the 3 Mobile WiFi will reach stores by Christmas 2009.
We first heard about Huawei’s E583X wireless modem back in February, and now the company has been showing it off at CommunicAsia in Singapore. A MiFi rival, the E583X – also known as the i-Mo – packs an HSPA modem and WiFi router into a palm-sized battery powered box.
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Hot on the heels of T-Mobile USA’s confirmation that they’d be announcing their new Android smartphone next week comes details on a new Google phone from the carrier’s UK arm. T-Mobile UK have just revealed that their second Android phone will be called the T-Mobile G1Touch; meanwhile, according to PC World, Huawei Technologies have announced that their U8230 Android smartphone will go on sale with T-Mobile in Europe late in Q3 2009.
Listen hard, and you can hear T-Mobile USA’s exasperated groans all the way from Bellevue. Some sly tipster has slipped Engadget the carrier’s roadmap for the remainder of 2009, and there are some juicy details in there for anybody awaiting the T-Mobile myTouch 3G (aka HTC Magic), a 3G-enabled netbook, or the HTC Touch Pro2.
Huawei’s “look but don’t touch” Android handset at Mobile World Congress last week was quite the disappointment: if it wasn’t for the display around it, you’d not know what OS the device was meant to be running. We could be seeing production handsets a lot sooner than expected, though, with Huawei claiming to have signed a deal with T-Mobile that will see the Android-based smartphone shipping in Q3 2009.
ASUS have announced an upcoming WiMAX-enabled Eee PC netbook, the ASUS Eee PC 1000HG, which will include both IEEE 802.16e and WAVE2 alongside WiFi a/b/g/n. The company has made no commitment to release dates, but it’s part of their Anywhere Connectivity announcements this week at Mobile World Congress. ASUS have also been showing off several Eee PC models with integrated 3.5G wireless, using an Huawei EM770 WWAN module and Windows 7.
Huawei have announced their latest wireless modem, the i-Mo, which will debut at Mobile World Congress next week. The Huawei i-Mo, which is apparently the size of a “small key chain”, has both an HSDPA/HSUPA USB modem and a WiFi b/g chip on board for sharing the connection with other devices.
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