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So if you haven’t heard there was a huge disaster in the Sidekick world this last week. Danger/Microsoft’s Sidekick servers went down. These servers hold all Sidekick users information, email, contacts, etc. so if they go down, those things disappear off of your phone. Well, the real issue is that Microsoft reported that they might be able to get information back but “it’s not looking good” and some users may not get their info back at all. Needless to say, Sidekick users everywhere got really pissed and I’m sure T-Mobile got flooded with “I’m going to switch to AT&T etc.” […]

So along with the news of the N900 maybe hitting T-Mobile USA in early 2010, we have another rumor about a revamping of their plans as well. Supposedly there is word that T-Mobile might be releasing a $50 unlimited everything plan. That includes, voice, texting, MMS, AND DATA. Nice, especially for us “power users” that NEED data and texting 🙂 Now the only plans close to that are Sprint’s unlimited everything for $100/month (and their $80/month unlimited everything with calls to cell phones only, but that wouldn’t be comparing Apples to Apples would it?) which is TWICE the price of

New rumor that Nokia’s new flagship phone, the N900, will be getting picked up by T-Mobile USA in “early 2010”. I personally love that phone and am waiting it’s official unlocked release (supposed to be today but looks like it will be the 26th or later this month, sigh). Now, the phone in it’s unlocked form, already has T-Mobile’s 3G frequencies built in so there would be no benefit to wait for the T-Mobile version (except the slightly lower price since T-Mobile bought 30,000 from Nokia and got a great deal on them to say the least). So you can

Want to try the new Motorola interface for the Motorola CLIQ or the Pulse interface from the Huawei T-Mobile UK Pulse before they’re even released (don’t you love those XDA Devs…)? Well if you have a G1, a MyTouch, or a Magic, ROMs are available in the Downloads section for you to flash. Just put on SD card, rename to update boot into recovery, wipe, then apply update.zip. (The Pulse ROM only works on the G1 for now, anyone want to try it on the MyTouch and post a comment if it works?) Now it is an early ROM and considering the

HTC has announced the a “US Carrier” is picking up the Touch HD2 (Leo) in early 2010. In the meantime, you could always buy the European Version and just not have 3G.. as with any GSM phone. Sadly I can already assume that by the time the HD2 “comes to the States” there will be a new, better HTC phone to drool over. Why can’t they just put Pentaband 3G in all of their phones and let us by them directly??

So as I thought, all those rumors about the Touch HD2 being Android were not entirely incorrect (well the HD2 was NOT Android as we know, but there is a reason why that rumor got started). Developers have leaked screenshots of a new HTC phone nicknamed the Dragon for now. It supposedly has a 1GHz processor(a snapdragon most likely, hence the nickname), a capacitive screen, and 800×480 resolution. Oh an it’s running Android with HTC Sense on top (most likely). I’m willing to bet HTC took the HD2 and loaded Android on it, so I won’t be surprised if were

That’s right, T-Mobile has come out with a successor to the Samsung Behold, but want to know the best new feature? They replaced the OS with Android lol So this now makes the 3rd T-Mobile Android device to be announced. The specs are not much different to the MyTouch except a nicer screen (3.2 AMOLED Capacitive screen), and a nice camera (5.0MP with flash). I know what all the current Android users are wondering; How much RAM? and Can it run Hero better than my MyTouch/G1? Well, no word on RAM yet, but this is supposed to be the US

So T-Mobile has had the Pro2 for a bit now, but finally AT&T has picked up the device and also the keyboard-less counterpart the Diamond2. They will be called the Tilt2 (Pro2) and the Pure (Diamond2) and while the Pro2 is still HTC’s best keyboarded Windows Mobile device out, the Diamond2 might be a little too late for people who don’t need the keyboard so much. The reason being that the HTC Touch HD2 was announced recently and is scheduled for release soon in Europe, and it packs a much larger screen, better TouchFlo, more RAM, and an almost twice

According to the HTC site, they are now promoting an HTC Magic (the model with 288MBs not 192MBs like the MyTouch unfortunately) with HTC Sense (AKA Rosie, AKA Hero UI) on it direct from HTC. This is good news for all HTC Magic users with 288MBs of RAM, soon as someone uploads it, it should be easy to port it to any other Magic with 288Mbs of RAM. For those with 192Mb HTC Magics (including the MyTouch) this COULD be good news as well as it is another ROM to dissect and then convert to put on the 192Mbs Magics…

There is a rumor that the new 4.3″ capacitive screen, 1GHz processor Windows Mobile 6.5 phone, the HTC Leo aka HTC Touch HD2 will be released on O2 in the UK on the 12th of October. There is also another rumor that it will be released in the Netherlands around the same time, which would help confirm the first rumor. Anyone UK readers getting it? And any US readers excited about importing one here to the States? 🙂

Ok, so apparently everyone is freaking out about Google issuing a cease and desist to one of the prominent unofficial Android developers, Cyanogen (you might have seen his ROM in our Downloads section until he removed it recently). I just wanted to clarify what this is about and why people don’t need to worry about their rooted phone getting taken while they sleep by Google’s super ninja gnomes. (If anyone has super ninja gnomes, it’s Google). I. Background on Android Open Source Android is an open source project, but there are a few apps in Android that are NOT part

So the Sony XPERIA Pureness may not be the most feature rich phone on the market (doesn’t even have a camera, GPS, or Wifi, in fact). But that doesn’t stop it from being a pioneer in phone manufacturing. How’s that you ask? Well, its has the world’s first translucent screen on a mobile phone. Don’t believe me, take a look…

That’s right, 30. Not 6 or 7, but 30 new devices all coming out within the span of 3 1/2 months. Not too shabby for an OS. Also, all devices will come shipped with Windows Mobile 6.5 as a bonus. These devices will be released all over the world by AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone, NTT DoCoMO, Softbank Mobile,  SKT, Telstra and Telus just to name a few… So keep your eyes open Windows Mobile fans 🙂