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It goes without saying that rumors, leaks and other kinds of tips from readers could very well be as real as a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow or a leprechaun riding on a unicorn. That is, they could just disappear in a wisp of smoke when faced with the almighty “official announcement”, or they could materialize into the real world since it was a closely guarded secret from the beginning that somehow, one way or another, managed to slip out. Well, the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 was whispered to be released on October 24th on T-Mobile, and considering how that is the very same day that Samsung will be carrying out their own launch event in New York City, some folks have put two-and-two together to say it is the pivotal moment where store shelves are stocked with the Galaxy Note 2.

Should that happen, you will be able to choose from either one of two colors – Titanium Gray and White, and we are keeping our fingers crossed that additional information will be made public soon, especially by T-Mobile. We sure hope that this will be the patched version when released so that it has no missing split screen feature.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Samsung Galaxy Note 2 variants for AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon stop by the FCC, T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 2 lacks 4G LTE connectivity,

T-Mobile announced on Monday that it will exclusively offer the Nokia Lumia 810 in the United States. Set to be available “in the coming weeks,” the 810 features a 4.3-inch OLED WVGA Clear Black display, an 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss optics rear-facing camera, a 1.2-megapixel Skype HD-certified front-facing shooter, Windows Phone 8 and support for T-Mobile’s HSPA+ faux 4G network. If those specs sound a little familiar, they should — the 810 seems quite a bit similar to the already announced 820. There are some details absent from this release, however, including CPU, storage, RAM and pricing, but we expect this to be remedied in the coming days. Now that T-Mobile and Ma Bell have called dibs on some of Nokia’s first wave of Windows Phone 8 devices, we’re left to wonder if America’s other two major wireless carriers will soon get with the program.

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T-Mobile to offer the Nokia Lumia 810 exclusively in the U.S. originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AT&T and Sprint have already laid claim to LG’s flagship Optimus G handset, but what of the rest of the Big 4 national carriers? Verizon has been keeping awfully quiet on the subject — maybe because it’s still trying to push LG’s curious Intuition phablet — and for now it seems T-Mobile is making do with another, less illustrious Korean handset.

The carrier has just announced that it will launch the LG Optimus L9, but like nearly every other phone announcement made in the past few weeks, there’s nary a hint at pricing to be found. Even its release date is shrouded in secrecy — all T-Mobile will say is that it’s set to launch “later this fall”.

Even though T-Mobile and LG are clearly keeping key details hush-hush at this point, they couldn’t completely keep the news under wraps.

Here’s the skinny on the Ice Cream Sandwich-powered L9: it packs a 4.5-inch, Gorilla Glass 2-coated display running at 960×540, and a dual-core 1GHz processor of unknown make. Meanwhile, a 5-megapixel camera can be found on the 9.1mm-thick device’s rear end, while the device’s 2,150mAh battery should keep things ticking along for quite some time. Alright, fine, it’s not the most exciting spec sheet you’re going to see over these next few months, and the L9 announcement may highlight an even bigger issue for T-Mobile — what’s going to be their big holiday seller?

For a while there it seemed like the natural heavy-hitter would be HTC’s One X+, which appeared on a T-Mobile document under a pseudonym. As it turns out though, the One X+ is an AT&T exclusive, and the perhaps the only top-tier device that the magenta-clad carrier is expected to carry (the Galaxy Note II) is slated to launch on most other carriers as well.

Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don’t escape without notice, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery we could find during the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!

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Refresh Roundup: week of October 1st, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 07 Oct 2012 21:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The other day we reported that the executive boards of both T-Mobile and MetroPCS have approved the merger of the two companies. Prior to that, it was rumored that T-Mobile was not the only interested party and that Sprint and Dish Network were reportedly interested in MetroPCS as well. Given Sprint’s rather vocal stance on the whole T-Mobile and AT&T merger, to a certain extent we guess we’re not surprised to learn that Sprint isn’t too happy with the T-Mobile and MetroPCS merger either.

According to the folks at Bloomberg, they have reported that the carrier is looking to make a counter offer of its own and are looking to outbid T-Mobile on the deal. However this might be slightly complicated as there are breakup fees involved where T-Mobile will have to pay MetroPCS $250 million if they back out of the deal, and MetroPCS will have to pay T-Mobile $150 million if they back out of the deal. These are some of the costs that Sprint will probably have to take into consideration if they plan to outbid T-Mobile. Representatives of all three carriers declined to comment on the report but we will keep our eyes and ears peeled nonetheless.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: T-Mobile, Sprint and Dish Network reportedly interested in acquiring MetroPCS [Rumor], Verizon, Sprint, MetroPCS and T-Mobile also doing their part to help out with the Japan crisis,