Today we we received a big surprise from our mobile-phone-testing friends in the government, the FCC. They like to test out our phones to make sure that the radiation emitted isn’t at a dangerous level. They also like publishing these results, which often times provides us with great info on upcoming devices! Today, CPS was the first to discover a new Motorola phone that has passed the FCC filters with T-Mobile 3G bands (1700/2100). This devices the first from Motorola that will be compatible with T-Mobile’s 3G bands.

After checking out some of the documentation for this mysterious Motorola, we noticed that it will be a slider phone. Yes guys, this is the Morrison, The first Android phone from Motorola, and has both 3G and WiFi!

Here some specifications.

• Model : Motorola Morrison
• Tri band WCDMA/ HSDPA/ HSUPA 900/1700/2100
• Quad band GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
• WiFi
• HandsFree Speaker
• Photo and video Camera
• Video Player
• Stereo Bluetooth
• Music Player
• HTML Browser
• Android OS.

Here is another internal document from Motorola showing the battery model only used by the Morrison.

And another surprise for you guys. the new Motorola Morrison will have WiFi but with UMA?  check this document and give us your opinion.

Check out T-Mobile upcoming phones page here

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We were waiting for so long to get the first Blackberry 3G/UMA capable for T-Mobile. Hope this information will be accurate. Cross the fingers and wait.. what else can we do.

BlackBerry Driftwood:

• GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS device
• GPS
• Camera
• Wi-Fi with UMA
• QWERTY keyboard
• 480×360 resolution screen

Blackberry Bold Refresh

• GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS device
• GPS
• Camera
• Wi-Fi with UMA
• QWERTY keyboard

Stay tuned for more infomation

Recently the blogisphere lit up with Nokia’s announcement of their 3 new devices, the Nokia 5330 XpressMusic, the 5030 XpressRadio, and the 5730 XpressMusic. Yesterday we were able to confirm that the Nokia 5330 is heading T-Mobile’s way near the end of Q2, and we are thrilled to say that today we have what looks like a confirmation that the other two Nokia Music phones will also be heading to T-Mobile shelves. The Nokia 5030 is a candy-bar style device, whose camera got replaced with a pretty awesome looking speaker on the back. 

With no 3G or Wifi, the 5030 will be aimed at music lovers, who are looking for a cheap but fun little phone to sit back and listen to FM radio on the loud speaker. We’re going to go ahead and guess that the 5030 will cost less then $100 with a 2 year contract. Not thrilled by the features provided by the 5030?

Here is something that many T-Mobile users have been looking forward to for quite some time. Let us take a look at the oh-so-sexy Nokia 5730.

Yes folks, you see that correctly, a Nokia XpressMusic phone with a QWERTY keyboard. What more could you really ask for in life? Reviewers are saying that the QWERTY layout is nearly flawless, with little to no problems with the spacing of the keys. Of course when the phone is closed, users can still SMS, dial numbers, or use the dedicated music keys. On the back of this QWERTY beauty we will be seeing a 3.2 megapixel camera, with likely but unconfirmed video ability. Some of you look disappointed, why is that? It must be because we forgot to mention the presence of Wifi and UMA aboard the 5730. A Nokia XpressMusic phones with UMA?  T-Mobile likes to live life on the edge. As we were researching this phone, we came to the conclusion that the only thing that could make this phone better would be 3G – UMTS and HSDPA. Of course as soon as we think this, our sources come back telling us that they just found out that the US version of the Nokia 5730 will indeed have AWS 1700/2100, more commonly known as T-Mobile’s 3G bands. Lets do a quick recap of known specs:

• QWERTY keyboard
• XpressMusic phone
• 3.2 megapixel camera
• Wifi and UMA
• 3G – UMTS and HSDPA
• Release in Q3

more about the Blackberry Pearl Flilp 8220

The flip phone, which comes in black or red, measures 3.9-inches high by 1.9-inches wide by 0.6-inch deep and weighs 3.5 ounces. It features a 65,536-color, 128×160 pixel external display and front-facing 2-megapixel camera, while you get a 65,536-color, 240×320-pixel TFT display on the inside. As part of the Pearl series, you get the SureType keyboard (groan) and trackball navigator. The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 also comes equipped with a 3.5mm headphone jack and an external microSD expansion slot.

Moving onto features, the quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900; GPRS/EDGE) Pearl Flip 8220 offers true world roaming, a speakerphone, smart dialing, and background-noise cancellation. Wireless options include Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP support. There’s no GPS, but the BlackBerry Maps application is onboard to at least provide you with maps and text-based directions.

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Update: According to TmoNews.com, T-Mobile users will be able to buy the Curve 8900 for $199.99 directly from T-Mobile, with a 2 year contract, and without signing that pesky BestBuy contract on the side.  

Official Information:

Meru Networks Teams With T-Mobile USA To Give Enterprise Customers Seamless Mobility Between Cellular and Wi-Fi Networks

Enterprise FMC Solution Uses UMA Technology To Provide Mobile Employees Uninterrupted Connections

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 26, 2009 – T-Mobile USA, Inc., and enterprise wireless LAN vendor Meru Networks have teamed up to bring fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) to enterprise customers, using unlicensed mobile access (UMA) technology to let users of T-Mobile devices roam between outdoor cellular infrastructures and indoor Wi-Fi networks without experiencing any interruption to their calls.

T-Mobile has joined Meru’s WINS (Wireless Interoperability and Network Solutions) Partner Program, and the two companies have completed interoperability testing of UMA-equipped T-Mobile devices with Meru enterprise WLANs.  The testing verified seamless “handoffs” between Meru WLANs and the T-Mobile cellular network.  The companies have also agreed to conduct joint marketing and sales activities.

The work done by Meru and T-Mobile is designed to let enterprises save on phone costs as increasing numbers of employees use their cell phone as their primary work phone:  whenever end users move onto a Meru virtual cell Wi-Fi network, they no longer eat into the allotted number of minutes in their cell phone plan.

Phillip Redman, a Gartner research vice president who authored the recent report, “Enterprise Mobile Phones Will Replace Desktop Phones in North America,” said, “The number of mobile-phone-only users in enterprises is expected to increase six-fold over the next four years.  This means enterprises need to start looking now for ways to increase the efficiency and mitigate the costs of their voice communication infrastructures.  One effective means of doing this is to combine in-building wireless voice with external cellular services.”

T-Mobile is the first national carrier with an FMC offering targeted at enterprises, and the first to leverage UMA technology, which provides GSM/GPRS mobile devices with access to Meru enterprise WLANs over unlicensed spectrum bands.  T-Mobile’s dual-mode lineup includes devices from BlackBerry, Nokia and Samsung.

Dave Fredericks, national director for products solutions and planning for T-Mobile, said, “Meru’s innovative wireless virtualization technology makes it an ideal fit for a venture that bridges the cellular and Wi-Fi environments.  UMA technology ensures a seamless experience in moving between networks.  Once users move onto the WLAN, Meru’s virtualized WLAN architecture guarantees they’ll have the same experience as on cellular, because the use of a single RF channel enterprise-wide eliminates handoff interruptions and co-channel interference.  After seeing how our dual-band phones operate over the Meru WLAN, we are confident that the use of UMA technology will change the nature of the enterprise voice experience.”

Sarosh Vesuna, Meru’s vice president of business development, said, “Meru has already installed some of the nation’s largest production enterprise FMC solutions.  Our work with T-Mobile will provide our enterprise customers with a new level of flexibility in their mobile communications.  Users can initiate a call using Meru’s voice-over-Wi-Fi infrastructure at home, continue their conversation in the car on the cell network, and move onto the Meru wireless LAN when they arrive at the office – all with the same device and with no disruption when moving between networks.  T-Mobile’s collaboration with Meru will lead to enhanced productivity, seamless coverage, and high-bandwidth access when indoors, and at the same time give enterprises better control over communication costs.”

A January 2008 report from New York-based ABI Research, “The Voice Over Wi-Fi Ecosystem,” identified Meru’s virtual cell, zero-handoff architecture as the WLAN approach best suited for efficiently handling enterprise voice calls without disruption or loss of quality, particularly for roaming users.  The report cited Meru as having “a significant advantage because, with all access points operating on a single channel, no handoffs are required.  This eliminates the problem of latency, or delay, typically associated with roaming.”

In Meru’s virtualized WLAN architecture, a single channel is selected for use by all access points enterprise-wide, and a dedicated “virtual port” is assigned to each client device to maximize performance, reliability, and enterprise control over wireless resources.

Additional channels can be layered as more capacity is required.  This architecture enables toll-quality voice, assured service quality and traffic classification in converged voice-video-data networks.  Meru’s technology also offers call admission control, which prevents quality-degrading call overloads by moving new voice calls to alternate virtual cell layers; and location- and application-aware quality of service, which allows assignment of priorities to voice traffic according to enterprise policy.

About T-Mobile USA, Inc.
Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile USA, Inc., is the U.S. operation of Deutsche Telekom AG’s Mobile Communications Business, and a wholly owned subsidiary of T-Mobile International, one of the world’s leading companies in mobile communications.  By the end of the third quarter of 2008, 127 million mobile customers were served by the mobile communication segments of the Deutsche Telekom group – more than 32 million by T-Mobile USA – all via a common technology platform based on GSM, the world’s most widely used digital wireless standard.  T-Mobile’s innovative wireless products and services help empower people to connect to those who matter most.  For more information, please visit www.t-mobile.com.  T-Mobile and the magenta color are federally registered trademarks of Deutsche Telekom AG.

About Meru Networks
Meru Networks develops and markets wireless infrastructure solutions that enable the All-Wireless Enterprise. Its industry-leading innovations deliver pervasive, wireless service fidelity for business-critical applications to major Fortune 500 enterprises, universities, healthcare organizations and local, state and federal government agencies. Meru’s award-winning Air Traffic Control technology brings the benefits of the cellular world to the wireless LAN environment, and its WLAN System is the only solution on the market that delivers predictable bandwidth and over-the-air quality of service with the reliability, scalability and security necessary to deliver converged voice and data services over a single WLAN infrastructure. Founded in 2002, Meru is based in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information, visit www.merunetworks.com or call (408) 215-5300.

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Released for T-Mobile, the Samsung T339 Charcoal a T-Mobile HotSpot @Home service, seamlessly connecting users to a home Wi-Fi connection or T-Mobile HotSpot – saving them minutes and money. Fallowing the Sony Ericsson TM506 Scarlet, T-Mobile just launched a new color refresh of the Samsung T339, now in Charcoal.

About the Samsung T339:

If you want a stylish flip phone that’s a music player, then the SAMSUNG t339 is music to your ears. Because behind that sweet burgundy exterior is a serious music player, complete with memory slot. But that’s not the only reason this phone sounds so good. It also has Bluetooth® Wireless Technology, a 1.3 megapixel camera, a speakerphone and Wi-Fi connectivity.

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The feature set is solidly mid-range. It includes a 2-megapixel camera, a music and video player, support for T-Mobile myFaves, messaging and e-mail, instant messaging, Bluetooth, an expandable memory slot, a speakerphone, and a personal organizer. It also has integrated Wi-Fi for use with T-Mobile’s HotSpot @Home service.Also, the phone will come with 3 faceplates, Fatal Red, Emerald Green and Espresso Brown.

Give us your opinion about this phone.

WHY THE OFFICIAL PICTURE OF THE NOKIA 7510 DOES NOT HAVE THE @HOME LOGO LIKE OTHER UMA PHONES…?  MMMM

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