T-Mobile USA is launching web2go, a mobile web browser experience designed to function across the company’s entire handset lineup.  The service is expected to streamline the mobile browsing experience, ensuring the entire web is easily navigable from any T-Mobile handset.  It’ll also include, among other things, a storefront from which developers can sell, and end users can buy applications.

Back in August, I had mentioned the T-Mobile devPartner Community, set up in advance so application developers could become comfortable with the variety of SDK platforms usable on the carrier’s phone’s.  VentureBeat reports that the new T-Mobile app store will feature an iPhone-like pricing scheme, but will be more open and less likely to reject application submissions.

web2go will also integrate Yahoo’s OneSearch, the search company’s mobile search product that it claims return more relevant content to mobile users.  It’ll also deliver targeted ads that the two companies will share.

T-Mobile will offer new pricing bundles that’ll be data transfer-friendly.

Blackberry’s Curve 8900, keeping many of the Curve name’s usual features but adding in a little from Bold, launched on T-Mobile Germany today for only $6 with a 2-year contract (or $450 without). Not bad at all and a sure sign that once it makes its way to North America it’ll be aggressively priced as well. Featuring a 480 x 360 screen, 512 MHz processor, GPS, quad-band EDGE and Wi-Fi support, and a 3.2 megapixel camera, the Curve 8900 is a sure bet for $6.  Does anyone know if this is the enigmatic Javelin?

Update: The Blackberry Curve 8900 is the phone formerly known as Javelin.  Additionally, from Seeking Alpha:

“T-Mobile will offer a free six-month trial promotion for those who buy the smartphone and subscribe to or extend a BlackBerry Internet Service [BIS] plan that go for as little as €4.95 per month. The promotion will initially be limited until December 31, 2008.”

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T-Mobile has officially launched the GPS-enabled Samsung Behold.  Aside from GPS, the Behold has a large touchscreen TouchWiz interface, 3G support, a 5 megapixel camera, an HTML browser, and a light rose color.  Available November 10, the Samsung Behold will set you back $149.99 with a 2-year contract.

Samsung’s Gravity, the Behold’s sister release partner, unfortunately doesn’t pack GPS.  It also scraps the touchscreen for a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, much like the G1.  The Gravity will be available on November 17 for $49.99 with a 2-year contract.

via gsmarena

There has been a ton of Google Android-related news lately as we move closer to the anticipated release of T-Mobile’s Dream/G1 phone.  Given our time constraints, we figured we’d try to boil it all down in this one post.  So here goes.

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TmoWorld has some serious speculation going on regarding the HTC Dream.  They are ‘confirming’ that the specific launch date for the Google Android-powered Dream is October 13, less than 2 months away.  September 17, another ‘confirmed’ date, T-Mobile will not only announce pre-order plans for T-Mo customers, but allow existing T-Mo customers to pre-order the same day via a dedicated online site.  Pre-orders will apparently end October 3 at 5 PM EST.

By the way, existing customers have to have completed 11 months of a 1-year term or 22 months of a 2-year term to constitute being an existing customer, so don’t think think you can sign with T-Mo now and trade in your current phone come pre-order time.

During pre-order, you’ll be forced to sign a 2-year plan at a instantly subsidized price of $199 which will be added to your first bill.  Oh, and you’ll have to pay an $18 upgrade fee, though shipping will be free.  Color options will be black, brown, and white, but interestingly the specs listed over at TmoNews don’t include either GPS or Bluetooth, although the Dream apparently supports both Google Maps and Street View.  This doesn’t sit quite right with me as from the updated SDK it appears with almost 100% certainty that the Dream will have a built-in GPS receiver and the recent FCC filings clearly show the Dream featuring Bluetooth.

That said, take all of the above with a grain of salt.  It may be true, it may not be-we probably won’t know for a couple more weeks.

While there hasn’t exactly been an announcement confirming the release of pricing of Samsung’s T919, apparently it’s coming to T-Mobile in the United States very soon.  The touchscreen phone isn’t exactly in the “smart” category, but it does come with the 1700 MHz WCDMA band.  Other features include built-in GPS with voice command, a 5 megapixel camera, streaming video and ringtone support, possibly a front-facing secondary camera, microSDHC support, and email.

via boy genius report

There’s been an absolutely huge amount of exciting news in the Android OS camp today.  This morning Engadget picked out the much-anticipated HTC Dream mobile phone in the new FCC filings, confirming that it’s coming very soon.  Listed as model DREA100, the Dream also received a WiFi Interoperability Certificate bringing 802.11b/g WiFi into the phone’s spec mix.  You can check out all the details by following these links:

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Tmonews has it from a “trusted source” that existing T-Mobile customers will be granted a presale of the delayed-maybe-not-delayed HTC Dream.  The presale supposedly starts September 17 and will last for one week.  Existing customers will be able to pre-purchase the Google Android-powered HTC Dream, aka G1, for $150 although the actual retail price is expected to be $399.  A full launch is rumored to be happening in early to mid-October.

Remember that leaked video that supposedly featured the HTC Dream, aka G1, in white.  Whether or not that’s the actual phone we still don’t know, but the G1 is not only expected to be available in white, but in black and brown also.  Who wants a brown cell phone I’m not sure, but the 3G-enabled phone will probably require a data plan from T-Mobile and user’s will require a Google Gmail account for the phone to work.  Other rumored specs include a 5-inch long by 3-inch wide touchscreen, a slide-out QWERTY keypad, and most likely some sort of built-in GPS.  However, there’s been no mention of any WiFi capabilities or UMA.

We’d like to hear from any T-Mobile customers out there.  Are you planning on purchasing the HTC Dream, aka G1?

Apple’s iPhone App store concept was revolutionary…a month ago.  But T-Mobile will unleash their own app store this fall in a move that will take Apple’s iPhone app concept and apply it across the entire family of T-Mobile phones.  And app developers will have the opportunity to create apps on a variety of platforms as well.  T-Mobile is not only expected to debut an Android phone in the near future, but it also has phone’s using Windows Mobile, Java, and Sidekick.

With 31.5 million subscribers using its network, an even half decent execution of a T-Mobile app store could revolutionize the mobile application industry.  Remember Apple forecasts the sale of 10 million iPhone’s by the end of 2008, in reality giving them much less influence than T-Mobile could possibly have in pushing other wireless carrier’s to begin opening up their platforms’.

America’s fourth largest wireless provider hasn’t issued a formal statement yet, but we’re expecting something in the coming few weeks.  In the meantime, some developer’s are already in the know as to how the application submission system will work.  Applications will be submitted online, although how and where remains to be seen.  Much like Apple, T-Mobile will offer a revenue-share to developers depending on how much bandwidth the application uses.  This is a good thing for GPS app developers as navigational apps will earn much more money than something like a video app which will use more bandwidth.  T-Mobile’s system rewards plain ol’ popularity as well.  Users will determine which apps are available first; T-Mobile will have no say here.

We’ll be on the lookout for a statement, but in the meantime if you want to get a headstart head over to T-Mobile’s developer site and start tinkering.

T-Mobile has launched the Blackberry Pearl 8820, an improvement on the previous 8800 model, this time featuring both GPS and WiFi.  The Blackberry’s business branding means it has no integrated camera, a seemingly ubiquitous feature across the smartphone spectrum, which could be a downer for some, but still true to Blackberry’s business roots.  Other features include a microSD expansion, access to 802.11g networks for VoIP and myFaves support.  The Blackberry Pearl 8820 will hit stores today.

Via Engadget Mobile