So AT&T announced their plan purchase of T-Mobile. In the words of the great Ron Simmons… Damn. I am currently a T-Mobile customer, and I personally don’t want to be an AT&T customer.
Phone Spotlight: T-Mobile Shadow 2009
The HTC-made T-Mobile Shadow 2009 (branded as the T-Mobile Shadow) is a great smartphone for beginning smartphone users. It has a phone case design similar to many featurephones, lacking a touchscreen or trackball, and has a Microsoft built custom interface that makes Windows Mobile 6.1 much simpler to use. It features UMA, allowing you to use wifi to extend T-Mobile’s range (much simpler than the Femtocell products that other carriers provide), a 2.0MP camera (like most HTC products, there’s no flash), and all the standard Windows Mobile 6.1 standard features
T-Mobile is Kicking Ass and Taking Names
T-Mobile USA, the 4th largest cellphone carrier in the United States, isn’t content with being number 4. They plan to become number 3 (overtaking Sprint PCS) with several initiatives, some of which have already started:
- Rapid Expansion of T-Mobile 3G (and since its using AWS instead of PCS, they don’t sacrifice 2G quality to go to 3G.. unlike certain other carriers)
- Upgrade to 21 Mbps HSPA+ with existing 3G rollouts
- Potential new $50 unlimited everything plan (similar in price to MetroPCS, etc.. and dramatically lower than their national competition)
- Significant phone upgrades (which they’ve already started to do — even TMO’s feature phones are pretty “advanced”)
I no longer trust Microsoft with my data
So Microsoft totally fucked over T-Mobile USA.. they botched an upgrade without backups, and thus losing all Sidekick owner’s data… For some reason I don’t trust Microsoft with my data anymore…
Facebook for Android
So.. Facebook and Google have finally released a Facebook application for Android. For this review, I’m testing on the following: