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Yeah, so the HTC One has just been announced, and T-Mobile is first off the blocks among the four major mobile carriers in the US to announce that they will be carrying the new flagship device from HTC. This will be an LTE smartphone, which is the first Android-powered model from T-Mobile, and it will carry along with it the announced HTC BlinkFeed, HTC Zoe and HTC BoomSound innovations, too.

Just what kind of a smartphone will the HTC One be like when it runs on T-Mobile’s 4G data plan? The perfect smartphone, as HTC would want you to believe, especially since the 4G data plan has no annual contract, making it a marriage made in tech heaven. Sorta. Well, I guess we will just have to be patient if we want to find out pricing and availability details of the HTC One over at T-Mobile, so stay tuned! It should definitely reside in the high end side of things, never mind that the hardware specifications do come close in certain areas to the HTC Butterfly.

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We’ve previously had just a smattering of text to hint that T-Mobile might kick off its formal LTE launch with a Sonic 2.0 Mobile Hotspot. Things just got more tangible this weekend through an apparent TmoNews leak. The really-truly-4G pocket router has surfaced in a supposed press render that’s fairly plain looking, but suggests a little sophistication through a color screen. We’re still missing the rather important details of the Sonic 2.0’s performance and price; if prior tips are on the mark, though, we’ll have our answers (and more devices) in about six weeks.

Filed under: Wireless, Networking, Mobile, T-Mobile

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We’re pretty sure you’ve heard of the BlackBerry Z10 by now, but have you heard of Solavei? Let us jog your memory: Solavei is a virtual operator (MVNO) here in the US which rides atop T-Mobile’s GSM / EDGE / UMTS / HSPA+ network and offers unlimited voice, SMS and data for $49 a month, contract free. The company further sweetens the deal with discounts when you sign up friends. As for the Z10, you probably know that it’s already on sale in the UK and Canada but isn’t supposed to land on US carriers until mid-March. Well scratch that, because starting today Solavei is teaming up with GSM Nation to bring Blackberry’s flagship to its customers. We’ve confirmed with Solavei that pricing for the handset is a hefty $999 (unsubsidized, clearly). The company currently offers the ATIV S for $605, the Galaxy S III for $575, the Nexus 4 for $405 and the Ascend P1 for $391, to name a few. It also welcomes unlocked phones. Full PR after the break.

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Source: Solavei

T-Mobile says that BlackBerry’s new Z10 smartphone is “more stable than … anticipated,” and could potentially get a faster-than-expected launch on the network. As it stands, the new BB10-based smartphone looks to be on track for a mid-March release, according to statements made by T-Mobile USA Head of Business Sales Frank Sickinger speaking to Bloomberg today. The company anticipates it could be the first U.S. carrier “out of the gate” with BB10 as a result, according to the report.

Anticipated launch dates for the BlackBerry Z10 in the U.S. had pointed to a March 27 launch on T-Mobile, according to a leaked roadmap published by TmoNews earlier this week. While that date may have originally been accurate based on the carrier’s assumption of how long the Z10 would take to clear testing, Sickinger’s words today suggest that the timeframe has been pushed up.

The Z10 is already out and available in the Canadian and U.K. markets, and BlackBerry has been issuing reports of early sales success in both countries. The launch in Canada on Rogers is reported to have seen initial sales numbering in the “thousands,” making for a record launch day for a single BlackBerry device, and in the U.K. many outlets report being sold out. That said, BlackBerry still isn’t releasing any specific sales numbers, which casts some doubt on how successful sales have actually been, in relative terms compared to the larger smartphone industry.

The Z10 will retail on T-Mobile for $199 with a new two-year agreement, and will be offered to business customers ahead of its consumer launch, with about a week’s worth of lead time. If T-Mobile can get the Z10 in customer hands a bit faster than its competition,  that might help it win over some more business customers to its cause. But this could just spur other carriers to try to speed up their own testing processes, which should please the eager U.S.-based BB-heads out there.

For reasons that aren’t quite clear, T-Mobile has just confirmed to TmoNews that the Nokia Lumia 710 won’t receive a bump to Windows Phone 7.8. While the update has taken its share of criticisms as a purely cosmetic revision, we’ve a feeling that more than a few folks were looking forward to the world of resizable live tiles — seems like a reasonable expectation, right? Fortunately, even in spite of T-Mobile’s mind-boggling decision, Lumia 710 owners can take the situation into their own hands and manually install the Windows Phone 7.8 upgrade. We’ll keep you posted if we learn anything more, but in the meantime, you can find the carrier’s painful doublespeak after the break.

Filed under: Cellphones, Software, Mobile, Microsoft, T-Mobile

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Via: WPCentral

Source: TmoNews