The myTouch 3G Fender Edition will be released via T-Mobile USA on January 20, 2010. T-Mobile has teamed up with legendary guitarist Eric Clapton to promote this handset. FYI, the myTouch 3G Fender Edition has a 3.5mm headset jack and a 16GB MicroSD card in the box. The phone comes preloaded with Eric Clapton hit songs like “Wonderful Tonight,” “Layla,” “Rock ‘N’ Roll Heart” and “My Father’s Eyes.” There are also several songs from Avril Lavigne, Wyclef Jean and Brad Paisley. The T-Mobile myTouch 3G Fender will cost $179.99 with a 2-year contract agreement.

T-Mobile has followed in the footsteps of many others (like HTC) and have released updates of Windows Mobile, version 6.5 to the Dash 3G and Touch Pro2 smartphones. The new updates will be released on January 20, and will update to the latest version of Windows Mobile 6, which is 6.5.3.

Good old T-Mobile’s on a roll these days with new phone plans, and this one seems perfectly catered to stocking stuffers. The quartet of phones start at $59.99, but so far we know of two: BlackBerry Curve 8520 for $299.99 and the Pearl for $149.99, according to the Best Buy stores we contacted. There’s no contract commitment, and according to the press release, the first month is included in the bill from the point the phone’s out of the box and activated. We don’t know the details of that first month of service (data? texting?), but it’s still a pretty penny for an unsubsidized handset. After that second month, of course, T-Mo’s probably hoping you’ll be enticed to keep with the network. If not already, you should start seeing the phones pop up at local Best Buy and select Walmart locales shortly.

After a protracted "let’s be absolutely certain we’re in the clear" period, T-Mobile has gone ahead and lifted its self-imposed moratorium on Sidekick sales following that little meltdown you may have heard about. Oh, and there’s a bonus, too: they’re a little cheaper this time around. The Sidekick 2008 has dropped to $49.99 on contract while the top-of-the-line LX 2009 has shed $25 down to $149.99 on contract, so if you were looking for an excuse to live dangerously with your precious address book, this might be as good of a reason as any. Then again, what are the odds of lightning striking twice?

Anyone looking for the hottest T-Mobile-powered BlackBerry experience that money can buy need only wait a few dozen hours now, because the carrier has just revealed that it’ll be launching the latest rendition of the Bold — the 9700 — on Monday, November 16 for $200 on contract. Your hard-earned cash reels in T-Mobile’s very first 3G BlackBerry underpinned by a 3.2 megapixel camera and 480 x 360 display, beating AT&T’s launch by a solid six days

Two Hungarian operators, Pannon and T-Mobile, are joining the “Nokia Messaging wave.” Starting from November 1st, all Pannon customers and postpaid T-Mobile customers will be able to access the Nokia’s push e-mail service from select Nokia phones. All leading consumer e-mail solutions are supported by the service — including Nokia’s own Ovi Mail, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail; as well as the major local e-mail services such as Citromail, Indamail and Freemail. More of this gadget »

This file under "rumors" but it seems T Mobile (NYSE: DT) is not only known be for its Android efforts and (as an institution which will be likely we have confirmed this 100 %) Nokia N900 Maemo shall run. The operator, you can retrieve also owned by Deutsche Telecom, offer the Nokia 5230. Or at least we have identified a device that looks like about similar Nokia (NYSE: NOK) on the Smartphone Symbian S60 the FCC fuelled.
Of course AWS are tapes in the mix, i.e., that 3 g rock this baby will be, once it is released. The FCC deletion is a step but notice the device is something else actually. We only hope that between these two steps we wait too long must…
[Via: CellPhoneSignal]

We published a story yesterday telling you about T-Mobile’s sudden outage which affected a lot of people. Although T-Mo restored all the services, that wasn’t done almost immediately despite the company’s quick response. And today we found out what caused the issue. It looks like a software error was to blame. That’s why thousands of T-Mobile customers saw dropped calls and busy tones despite having very good signal from the towers. Here’s what T-Mobile had to say about the outage:

On Tuesday, some T-Mobile customers may have experienced service disruptions impacting voice and messaging services. We restored full service to all affected customers later in the day. After investigating the cause, we have determined that a backend system software error had generated abnormal congestion on the network. T-Mobile has since implemented additional measures to help prevent this from happening in the future. We again apologize to those customers who were affected and may have been inconvenienced.

This certainly doesn’t look good on T-Mobile especially considering the recent Sidekick troubles. What about you? Is you T-Mobile phone working properly again?

via Gizmodo

We’re getting reports from sea to shining sea this evening that T-Mobile service is down or intermittent on both voice and data — particularly bad timing in light of the recent Sidekick drama. We’ve tested in New York and it’s definitely down for us — both voice and data — so how’s service treating everyone out there?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Update: We just got an official statement from T-Mobile, and it’s confirmed — service is down. Here’s the statement:

"T-Mobile customers may be experiencing service disruptions impacting voice and data. Our rapid response teams have been mobilized to restore service as quickly as possible. We will provide updates as more information is available."