You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
After a long wait, T-Mobile will finally start selling the iPhone 5 this Friday. To sweeten the pot for people (and to encourage people joining up with Magenta), T-Mobile will be accepting old iPhone 4 and 4S phones for the price of a brand new iPhone 5. That is, if you trade in an iPhone 4 or 4S to T-Mobile, you won’t have to pay anything up front for a T-Mobile iPhone 5. More »
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
At T-Mobile’s UnCarrier event, there’s been a lot of talk about how you, the customer, are no longer tied in. No contracts, no obligations, no restrictions, right? Turns out that new iPhone you’ve just paid $100 upfront for isn’t so liberal, as the carrier has said any handsets you pick up will be locked to the T-Mobile network. There is a welcome caveat though: as long as you’ve paid the cost of the phone off, the Magenta mob will unlock it for you. That means if you’re unhappy with whatever new plan you’re on, you can take the phone elsewhere with a flat, one-time payment, or installments of your choice — whether that’s continuing on a monthly basis, or larger sums at an accelerated rate. Of course, if you just want out, you can always trade it back for a “fair” amount.
Update: We spoke with Apple regarding specifics of the new hardware and the unlocking details, which can be found here.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, T-Mobile
T-Mobile has the iPhone now. It’s only a hundred bucks! There’s no contract! Unlimited everything! But before you get too excited about the prospect of jumping ship for forgotten carrier, let’s take a look at how exactly that its iPhone 5 data plans compare to the other big dogs. More »
The saga of T-Mobile and the iPhone is full of twists and turns and fakeouts and missed connections. Every year a new iPhone comes out, every year T-Mobile gets left out of the cool kids club (which is basically every other carrier at this point). That changed in 2012, when T-Mobile announced that it would get the iPhone sometime in 2013. According to CNET, “sometime in 2013” means tomorrow. More »
RM-917. It may not sound like much on the outside, but the model number and above picture correspond with the Nokia Lumia 521, T-Mobile’s version of the lower-end Lumia 520 announced at MWC last month. We still don’t have any details on when it’ll show up on retail shelves, but it’s at least made its way through one of the final barriers to entry: the FCC approval process. As you might expect, the docs are low on details, but the frequencies support 850 / AWS / 1900 HSPA+ / UMTS as well as quadband GSM / EDGE. To refresh your memory, the 520 will sport a 4-inch WVGA LCD panel, 512MB RAM, a 5MP camera, microSD storage and quite a few other respectable goodies. Head to the source if you’re a sucker for numbers and acronyms.
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile, Nokia
Source: FCC
Google already sold out of the off-contract Nexus 4 but T-Mobile told The Verge that they’ll be selling the 16GB Nexus 4 for 200 bucks (with a two-year contract) tomorrow. If you don’t want to tie yourself with a T-Mobile contract, the same phone will cost you $500. Yikes. That’s a steep price bump from the no contract $350 16GB Nexus 4 that was at the Google Play store earlier but if you snooze, you lose money. [The Verge] More »
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