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After a number of trials, T-Mobile has finally properly unveiled its home phone service. From next week, all of those T-Mobile users who really can’t bear to part with their home phone can sign up for the @Homer service, which promises unlimited nationwide long-distance calling (and other features like voicemail and call forwarding) for $10 [...]

Just as expected, T-Mobile has made the BlackBerry 8120 Pearl officially official on their network. With WiFi in tow, the BlackBerry 8120 Pear takes consumer-oriented BlackBerry-ing to a new level on T-Mobile. Other carriers have been offering the BlackBerry Pearl 8120 for a tick, and now T-Mobile subscribers can join in on the fun. Of course, [...]

And here we were getting all set and ready for T-Mobile to drop the BlackBerry 8820 on us Yanks in less than two weeks. We should have known better than to expect the T-Mobile HotSpot @Home-compatible handset to launch without any possible delays. Boy Genius just recently led us to believe that the T-Mobile BlackBerry [...]

Filed under: Handsets , Features , Nokia , T-Mobile GSM / WiFi handoff is a brilliant idea in theory -- but to be usable, it's gotta be seamless, unnoticeable, and virtually effortless for the user. So far, the national carriers have failed to deliver any solution -- let alone a usable one -- so how does T-Mobile stack up? The Phone Fairy recently dropped off a Nokia 6086 and Linksys WRT56G-TM router to have a go with T-Mobile's just-announced HotSpot @Home service , and our initial impressions are fairly positive. In brief: setup was a snap, the phone's basic but well-designed, GSM / WiFi handoffs were hit or miss, and for ten bones a month, it seems like a square deal. Read on for more, and don't forget to peep the gallery! %Gallery-4312% Though we suspect T-Mobile intends to take HotSpot @Home to every market segment, the launch phones are relatively basic devices. The Nokia 6086 offers up a VGA camera, a fairly low-res 160 x 128 primary display, and monochrome external display, for example -- but on the plus side, we get goodies like a microSD slot, music player, FM radio, Bluetooth, and of course WiFi. The phone seems extraordinarily well-built -- one of the most solid flips we've handled recently -- and features perhaps the best keypad in a small flip we've ever used. Seriously, it simply isn't possible to press the wrong number. Like we alluded to, setup was a breeze. T-Mobile provides a carrier-branded version of the ubiquitous Linksys WRT54G; besides offering one-touch pairing with the phone (pictured), it's apparently configured in such a way to maximize the phone's battery life when on WiFi. That being said, the 6086 is perfectly happy to roll with your own router, too -- just select your SSID, enter your security key and you're done. We weren't in love with the incoming voice quality on the 6086, but we discovered that it didn't have anything to do with using WiFi. Indoors and out, voices seemed tinny and flat...

Filed under: Handsets , Nokia , T-Mobile , GSM , GPRS , EDGE It's been a minute or two in the making, but it looks like T-Mobile's UMA rollout -- the first for a national US carrier -- could finally be around the corner . Boy Genius Report has come across some pretty authentic-looking documents detailing the "@Home" service launch, suggesting that it'll roll out next Wednesday, July 27 (probably for the best they don't try it two days later ) with the Nokia 6086 and Samsung t409 doing duty as the launch handsets. Here's where it gets good, though: the marketing campaign will apparently involve commercials featuring some bathrobe-clad dude named Jimmy. T-Mobile's really taking Jimmy to heart, asking its in-store reps to dress up in Jimmy's bathrobe's for the few days after @Home's launch, culminating in a July 3 contest where eleven stores across the country offer free @Home phones, routers, and service to the first 100 similarly dressed customers. This should be... interesting. Read - part 1 Read - part 2 Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments