T-Mobile apologizes and removes ads from notification bar

A T-Mobile spokesperson just dropped the following statement into my inbox, advising customers they have discovered the cause of the Android notification bar advertisements and removed them. T-Mobile apologizes for the inconvenience and hopes we can all move on and have a nice weekend. Our story is just about 28 hours old, so we have to give the folks at Magenta some credit for a swift reaction to their customer concerns.

During a recent software update, a message to promote T-Mobile’s free VIP Zone was mistakenly sent to certain customers and appeared on the notification bar for some Android devices. After T-Mobile was made aware of this mistake, the company stopped the notifications. T-Mobile apologizes for the inconvenience this may have caused customers.

We researched prices on other carriers (and would leave-do to horrible customer service and poor network quality in my area) but T-mobile is so much cheeper than the better services out there-so its a soley financial decision to stay with T-mobile.

But it is interesting that people complain about them as if they are charging Verizon prices. It's mean you have to expect lower quality and lower quality service when the price is so much cheaper.

Going down from t-mobile in price, to say metro or simple mobile, we'r sure everyone would expect less coverage and cheaper handsets. T-mobile does a very good job of maintaining their network, offering high speed and good coverage, and providing cell phone options that (WHile incredibly overpriced sometimes) are quite competitive in today's market.

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AT&T Galaxy Note Modded To Work On T-Mobile 4G

In the recent days, Samsung has launched the Galaxy Note in the US, but the device was available from AT&T US mobile carrier network which was some what made unhappy for T-Mobile users. However, today there’s a good news for them too to use Galaxy Note on the said carrier as well with some trick made.

One of the guys from the XDA Developers forum has modded the AT&T’s Samsung Galaxy Note handset to work on T-Mobile’s 4G network. While the Galaxy Note on AT&T comes with HSPA+ bands that will work on T-Mobile’s HSPA+4G network, although the device is locked to AT&T, and now the device has been modded to work with T-Mobile.

This mod has been done without the need of custom ROM, instead a hacked T-Mobile radio was loaded onto the Samsung’s Galaxy Note device using a custom bootloader. Early reports indicate that signal is considerably weaker than both an unmodified Note and a standard T-Mobile Android phone, but voice, text and data are all possible. For more details about the AT&T Galaxy Note working on T-Mobile 4G and how it has modded, pleased visit the Official XDA-Developer forum link here.

Samsung Galaxy Note (AT&T) LTE smartphone live from CES 2012:

HTC says Android 4.0 update coming in March to select models

Considering that the white HTC Sensation is shipping in Europe starting March 1st with Android 4.0, it might be no surprise that the Sensation series will be the first HTC phones to be updated to the latest Android version. Starting at the end of next month, the HTC Sensation, HTC Sensation 4G and HTC Sensation XE will be receiving Ice Cream Sandwich with the HTC Sensation XL receiving it shortly afterward.

Other HTC devices getting Android 4.0 sometime later this year include the HTC Rezound, HTC Vivid, HTC Amaze 4G, HTC EVO 3D, HTC EVO Design 4G, HTC Incredible S, HTC Desire S and HTC Desire HD. No precise date was given as to when the owners of these devices can expect the latest build of Google's open source operating system.

For those with an HTC model not mentioned, there still is hope that you could receive an update. HTC said that more models getting Ice Cream Sandwich will be announced in the upcoming weeks. Models like the HTC ThunderBolt are still not accounted for, so owners of that model should definitely be crossing their fingers.

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New thriller "7500" to feature cameos by the BlackBerry PlayBook and BlackBerry Torch 9860

Something scary is aboard Flight 7500 from LA to Tokyo. And it is not either the BlackBerry PlayBook or the BlackBerry Torch 9860, although both devices are on the flight. Both devices are making cameos in the film which is about a supernatural force that takes over a ten hour flight. One passenger reaches EOL and others follow. By the way, in case you were wondering why we picked the Torch 9860 over the identical on the outside Torch 9850, with the flight traveling to Tokyo, it is assumed that the owner of the device has the GSM variant of the phone.

Check out the trailer for "7500" below. The BlackBerry devices debut at 42 seconds into the video. The movie itself is set to premiere (that's the term those high-fallutin' movie guys use instead of launch) on August 31st.

7500 - Official Movie Trailer:

T-Mobile and Samsung introduce Galaxy S Blaze 4G

T-Mobile and Samsung just unveiled the Galaxy S Blaze 4G with a dual-core Snapdragon S3 processor, clocked at 1.5 GHz, Super AMOLED first generation display and HSPA+ 42 Mbps downlink speeds.

Known specs are pretty scarce at the moment but it appears that the Blaze 4G will be basically a Galaxy S with an upgraded processor and 4G speeds.

Availability is expected to start later this year and prices aren't disclosed so far.

T-Mobile tower sale could net nearly $3 billion for Deutsche Telekom

A sale of T-Mobile's tower system could net parent company Deutsche Telekom as much as $3 billion in an auction. According to Macquarie analyst Kevin Smithen, American Tower Corp., Crown Castle International Corp. and SBA Communications Corp are all interested in the towers. The analyst estimates that the towers could fetch $2.25 billion although competitive bidding could bring the price to as much as $3 billion. T-Mobile is looking to sell the towers to fund the purchase of additional spectrum, and an LTE network and to sign Prince Fielder according to Deutsche Telekom's CFO Timotheus Hoettges. The carrier would then lease back the same towers from the company that buys them.

The 7,500 cell towers owned by T-Mobile is the largest number of such towers currently up for sale. Sprint did a sale-leaseback three years ago when it sold 3,080 towers to TowerCo for $680 million. Sprint used the proceeds to reduce debt. Thanks to the leaseback arrangement, T-Mobile will not be losing any tower space nor will it lose any areas of coverage.