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At their press conference here at the CTIA Wireless 2010 trade show, T-Mobile gave away some hints about their upcoming product roadmap.

Smartphones with high-speed HSPA+ chipsets will arrive in the “second half of this year,” CTO Cole Brodman said. HSPA+, now available in parts of four cities, will roll out to 100 cities this year, according to T-Mobile. In my tests in Philadelphia, I got speeds up to 7.65 megabits/sec down.

T-Mobile will also roll out “personal hotspots” similar to Novatel’s MiFi, Brodman said. He didn’t give any further details about the personal hotspots.

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T-Mobile’s selected CTIA 2010 this week as the venue to launch its customized version of Dell’s Mini 10 netbook that’s been infused with — you guessed it — T-Mobile-compatible 3G service. It’s got a 10.1-inch WSVGA display, 1.3 megapixel webcam, three USB ports, VGA port, Windows 7 Starter Edition, and an Atom N450 core humming along at 1.66GHz with a claimed battery life of “up to” eight hours using a six-cell 56WHr pack. In terms of frequencies, you’ve got quadband EDGE alongside quadband (yes, quadband) 3G with support for Bands I, II, IV, and V, which means you’ll be able to roam in 850 / 1900MHz markets and internationally. It’s available starting tomorrow in “select T-Mobile retail locations” in Chicago, Dallas, Miami, and Los Angeles as well as through the carrier’s site and sales hotline for $199.99 on a two-year deal.

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T-Mobile today announced that their super-high-speed HSPA+ network has expanded from Philadelphia to parts of New York City, New Jersey, Long Island, the Las Vegas Convention Center and Strip areas, and west suburban Washington DC, with Los Angeles coming soon.

As I found in hands-on tests last month, HSPA+ delivered blazing speeds of up to about 7.5 megabits/sec when I used it with its only current device, the T-Mobile WebConnect Rocket USB modem. But HSPA+ also boosts speeds on standard 3G devices – I found speeds on a T-Mobile MyTouch 3G would up to triple when I entered the HSPA+ zone.

Over 200 million people in the US are now covered by T-Mobile 3G, T-Mobile senior vice president of engineering and operations Neville Ray said. Over 10,000 of T-Mobile’s 47,000 cell sites have fiber backhaul already, which will help support the massive data usage of HSPA+. T-Mobile plans to cover over 100 metro areas with HSPA+ by the end of 2010, Ray said. Half of that footprint will be available by midyear, Ray said.