T-Mobile USA’s latest Android smartphone, the myTouch 3G, goes on sale today, and to celebrate (and, dare we say, distract attention from the HTC Hero) the carrier is planning an aerial show above San Francisco. 100 skydivers will plummit, sky-writing as they go, to announce the fact that the myTouch 3G costs $199.99 with a new two-year agreement.
TeleNav have announced that, like the G1, the T-Mobile myTouch 3G is next in line for its subscription-based turn-by-turn navigation app. Available to download from August 5th – complete with a 30-day free trial available from the company’s site, just to get you hooked – the software includes traffic/incident updates, automatic re-routes, POIs and gas prices, together with speech recognition for programming your destination and finding businesses.
Video demo after the cut
T-Mobile USA have announced that they will be offering the HTC Touch Pro2 from August 12th, HTC’s impressive Windows Mobile smartphone complete with a 3.6-inch touchscreen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, WiFi b/g and AWS 3G. We reviewed the Euro-spec version of the Touch Pro2 earlier this month, finding it a sturdy and capable business smartphone with an excellent “Straight Talk” speakerphone system.
Samsung and T-Mobile USA have been snuggling up close to develop two new QWERTY-blessed featurephones for avid texters. The Samsung Comeback SGH-t559, shown here and in a video unboxing after the cut, and the Samsung Gravity 2 SGH-t469 both have a 2-megapixel camera and support for T-Mobile’s 3G network.
Unboxing video after the cut
It’s not just the HTC Hero that has been wowing us with its Android skills this week. T-Mobile USA’s latest Android smartphone, the myTouch 3G (aka the US version of the HTC Magic) has arrived, and we’ve got the full unboxing from our sibling site Android Community.
Unboxing video after the cut
Amazon is reportedly close to setting a release date for the Kindle in the UK, with “advanced negotiations” underway with a carrier for providing the wireless connection via which the device downloads ebooks. According to Mobile Today, Amazon have called upon Qualcomm to manage not only the manufacturing of the GSM Kindle, but to “securing connectivity” for the UK device.
T-Mobile have announced the Samsung Highlight SGH-T749, their latest touchscreen featurephone, and over at PhoneMag they’ve been busy unboxing it and running through some of its key features. The Highlight has a 3-inch 240 x 400 touchscreen, 3-megapixel camera and 1700/2100 UMTS/HSDPA, and is billed as an entry-level device.
Could Apple UK be shopping around for a new carrier deal? Expect a flurry of denials from O2 and Apple themselves, but Orange and T-Mobile UK are both apparently in talks regarding carrying the iPhone 3G, Apple’s entry-level device now that the iPhone 3GS has arrived. According to the latest rumors, T-Mobile’s customer services team has been telling callers that the carrier is negotiating with Apple regarding the second-gen smartphone.
T-Mobile UK have reconfirmed that they will be launching their version of the HTC Hero this month, and added that they will be again changing its name. Rather than the 3.2-inch touchscreen smartphone being known as the G1Touch, as originally suggested, it will now be called the T-Mobile G2 Touch.
Updated with pricing details after the cut
T-Mobile have thrown open the doors to pre-orders for their second Android device, the upcoming myTouch 3G. Priced at $199.99 with a new two-year contract, and set to hit shelves on August 5th, existing T-Mobile USA customers are able to preorder the device – also known as the HTC Magic - from today, with deliveries expected to arrive prior to the official launch.
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