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Is Nokia working on a successor to the Lumia 520? Presumably that is the case, unless they were planning on having the low-end market dominated by phones like the Moto G and the Moto E. That being said, it was just last week that we caught wind that Nokia could be working on a successor to the Lumia 520 in the form of the Lumia 530.

Now according to a post by @evleaks, word on the street has it that the handset could be making its way stateside and onto T-Mobile’s network where it could be known as the Nokia Rise. We’re not sure if the Nokia Rise name is a codename or if it will be the name of the handset when it launches.

After all with devices like the Nokia Lumia Icon, we don’t see the handset couldn’t be known as the Nokia Rise. Unfortunately @evleaks did not mention as to when we might be able to look forward to the handset, but with information about the device starting to leak on a more frequent basis, perhaps we won’t have to wait too long to find out more.

Based on the specs of the handset that we saw in benchmarks, the Lumia 530 is expected to pack an 800×480 display. It will also come with an Adreno 305 GPU. It’s not much to go on right now, but hopefully more will be revealed in the near future, so check back with us for updates then.

Nokia Rise Could Be T-Mobile’s Lumia 530 [Rumor]

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T-Mobile continues to push for change in the wireless provider industry by abolishing consumer overages – and T-Mobile CEO John Legere has called on consumers to urge the likes of AT&T, Verizon and Sprint to bring the age of overages to an end. Over 20 million folks in the US were slapped with punitive overage charges last year alone, with penalties from three of the largest US carriers bringing home more than $1 billion annually from overage charges alone.

Legere shared, “Today I’m laying down a challenge to AT&T, Verizon and Sprint to join T-Mobile in ending these outrageous overage penalties for all consumers – because it’s the right thing to do. Overage fees are flat out wrong. Agree with me? Join me in putting this challenge to all the major national carriers by signing my petition on Change.org. Right here. Take one minute to be a part of this consumer movement.”

T-Mobile began to phase out overage charges last year with the launch of Simple Choice, where that also saw the abolishment of annual service contracts. Legere continued, “Charging overage fees is a greedy, predatory practice that needs to go. Starting in May for bills arriving in June – regardless of whether you’re on Simple Choice, Simple Starter or an older plan, we’re abolishing overages for good. Period.”

Do you like what T-Mobile is doing, and will their call have an impact on the other three major mobile carriers and the way they do business? [Press Release]

T-Mobile Abolishes Consumer Overages , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Cellphones, T-Mobile,

According to the rumors we heard last month, Nokia was reportedly working on a device codenamed “Monarch”. We weren’t sure what handset the codename belonged to at that point in time, but thanks to a recent post by the ever-reliable @evleaks, it seems that the Nokia Monarch could in reality be the Nokia Lumia 635 that will be making its way onto T-Mobile’s network.

The Nokia Lumia 635 was announced earlier this month during Microsoft’s BUILD conference and has been announced for T-Mobile, so we guess the mystery has been solved as to what the Monarch is. We guess in some way we’re a little disappointed that this isn’t a brand new Nokia device that we haven’t heard of, but we can’t say we’re too surprised. (more…)

Nokia Monarch Could Be T-Mobile’s Lumia 635 original content from Ubergizmo.

The folks over at T-Mobile continue their range of new initiatives to help connect to potential customers, first with the $40 “Simple Starter” plan and now with the announcement of “Operation Tablet Freedom.” Operation Tablet Freedom has nothing to do with delivering tablets to our brave men and women on the battlefield, but rather, as how CEO John Legere described it to be “a full-on assault against the restrictions and pain points imposed by the greedy carriers.”

In Operation Tablet Freedom, this new tablet plan would put on offer 1GB of free data for tablets that are in the possession of T-Mobile’s customers who happen to also own a calling plan. This 1GB of free data will be on top of the free 200MB tablet data that was offered by the mobile carrier to the entire range of tablets, which means that T-Mobile’s voice subscribers will be able to enjoy up to 1.2GB of storage space.

Other than that, T-Mobile will also place LTE-enabled tablets on sale at the same price point as that of the Wi-Fi only version of the same device. It does not make much sense, but who’s complaining? I suppose it is a matter of taking advantage of this deal while stocks last. This translates to forking out $499 for a 16GB LTE enabled Apple iPad Air instead of $629 with T-Mobile, making it quite a standout deal. [Press Release]

T-Mobile Announces Operation Tablet Freedom , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Tablets, T-Mobile,

T-Mobile has just launched its all new “Simple Starter Plan” that intends to deliver a zero-risk, no annual contract plan for those who are extremely careful about where every single hard earned penny of theirs go to. This will further extend T-Mobile’s Un-carrier consumer revolution across a slew of new fronts, where the all-new Simple Starter value plan was specially designed in order to have it deliver an alternative to the data overage-intensive entry-level plans that other US mobile carriers offer. This new plan would mean T-Mobile happens to be the sole major U.S. carrier that will offer a single line of 4G LTE data for a mere $40 monthly.

Kicking off in a few days’ time this April 12th, the Simple Starter plan at a mere $40 per month will be able to offer unlimited talk and text and up to 500MB 4G LTE data and tethering. The whole idea behind the Simple Starter plan is to target value-conscious wireless customers and small businesses who require the predictability of T-Mobile’s network without breaking the bank, and there will also be no data overages to worry about, too. It does seem as though the consumer is going to be the biggest winner in the long run with all of this competition going on among mobile carriers. [Press Release]

T-Mobile’s “Simple Starter Plan” Lowers Entry Cost , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Cellphones, T-Mobile,