T-Mobile Announce Nokia 6650 Exclusive

T-Mobile and Nokia announced the Nokia 6650, a stylish and easy to usedevice optimized for use with T-Mobile services. Available exclusively forT-Mobile International customers, the Nokia 6650 is equipped with thelatest wireless features, such as an integrated GPS and multimedia player,allowing T-Mobile customers easy access to a wide range of services such asweb'n'walk, MyFaves, Mobile Jukebox and NaviGate.

The Nokia 6650 will be available from T-Mobile during the third quarterat T-Mobile sales points across Europe at a very attractive price. InGermany for example, the Nokia 6650 will retail for just 1 euro togetherwith the Relax 100 rate.

The Nokia 6650 - exclusive multimedia device

The stylish, stainless-steel clad fold design is equipped withstate-of-the-art multimedia features and supports T-Mobile's services suchas web'n'walk, a service that allows easy access to the Internet on mobiledevices. High-speed HSDPA data connectibity enables fast web browsing anddownloading while the 2.2" TFT QVGA color display can display up to 16million colours, making browsing and viewing photos, videos and menus apleasure. T-Mobile service My Faves keeps you in touch with the people thatmatter the most while benefiting from the device's extensive talk time.Mobile Jukebox users will appreciate the dedicated keys for the musicplayer. Furthermore, the Nokia 6650 has built-in AGPS (assisted GPS) toenable quick positioning with NaviGate route management.

The Nokia 6650 comes with a 2 megapixel camera with flash, 30 MB ofinternal memory and a micro SD card slot, FM radio and many other features.Images and videos can be uploaded to the web, sent from phone to phone viaa wireless Bluetooth connection, or viewed in full color on the device'slarge display.

T-Mobile Launches the MDA Touch Plus

T-Mobile announced the hotly anticipated MDA Touch Plus in the UK. Featuring a new slender design with a large touch screen and sliding keyboard, the MDA Touch Plus is packed with the latest technologies to enable users to send emails, surf the Internet, listen to their favourite tunes and catch up with the latest TV programmes on the move.

Combining an innovative TouchFlo screen with a handy slide-out keyboard, the device is stylishly designed to provide one of the best user experiences on the market. Navigation through emails, web pages, music and images has never been easier.

MDA Touch Plus “ Key Features:

- Unique, stylish design combining touch screen and sliding keyboard
- Super-fast connectivity with T-Mobile’s HSDPA network
- T-Mobile web’n’walk: surf the whole Internet as you would on your PC
- Listen to your favourite songs on the move
- Watch TV on your mobile
- In-built 2 mega-pixel camera and MP3 player

Coupled with T-Mobile’s latest web’n’walk service and super-fast HSDPA mobile broadband technology, the MDA Touch Plus is set to provide a complete and personalised mobile surfing experience, as users will be able to explore any site on the Internet as they would on their PC. Not only this, but people will be able to watch a range of TV channels on the handset, from Sky Sports to MTV. Perfect for people who need to stay in touch with their colleagues, friends and family, the MDA Touch Plus also offers fast and simple access to emails on the move.

There is also no need to carry around an MP3 player or digital camera, as the handset has these built-in. The 2 mega-pixel camera is ideal for people who want to zoom in and take photos or shoot films wherever they are, as well as editing images, creating slideshows and viewing favourite images at the touch of a finger. The front facing VGA camera is perfect for making video calls and the handset also comes with stereo Bluetooth functionality to give users a greater choice of how they listen to their music on the move. The MDA Touch Plus is also fully compatible with the CoPilot Live satellite navigation system “ an ideal extra for busy people on the road.

Free WiFi for T-Mobile Broadband customers

WiFi and high-speed 3G (HSDPA) are being fused together for the first time today. T-Mobile announces the integration of its ground-breaking web’n’walk price plan with its UK network of WiFi HotSpots to offer its customers the best mobile data network, with unprecedented access to broadband on the go at unbeatable prices.

The largest provider of public WiFi in the world, T-Mobile is the first UK Mobile Broadband operator to offer access to a WiFi network as part of a mobile broadband price plan. Starting at £12.50 per month (when connecting with a Flext mobile contract), the service gives you access to the internet through using your laptop.

Additionally, it lets you access the WiFi network on a huge range of locations like Starbucks coffee shops, airports, main-line train stations, service stations and hundreds of other locations in the UK, without paying extra to connect to wireless hotspots. Without T-Mobile’s web’n’walk price plan, access to WiFi costs from £5 for 60 minutes (one off or occasional access), £10 per month for subscription or £20 per month for those without a T-Mobile phone. For a full list of the company’s HotSpots, visit http://t-mobile.hotspot-directory.co.uk/.

Consumers can find out more by visiting www.t-mobile.co.uk/webnwalk

T-Mobile Launches 3G HSDPA MDA Vario III

T-Mobile announced the launch of the much-anticipated MDA Vario III. The Vario III takes PDA handsets to the next level, with a unique tilting screen and sliding QWERTY keyboard which makes it even easier for those who want to continue their work or surf the Internet on the move.

As one of the first handsets with 3.6 Meg HSDPA, the Vario III will provide the highest quality Internet, video calling and email experience available on a mobile device.

Coupled with T-Mobile’s web’n’walk service, the Vario III is set to give users the ultimate mobile experience, as they will be able to explore any site on the Internet as they would on their PC.

Key features of the MDA Vario III:
Unique and stylish design with tilting touch screen
One of the first devices to market with 3.6 Meg HSDPA
Web’n’walk enabled – surf the real open Internet as you would on your PC
Built-in GPS, with CoPilot SatNav software as an option
Windows Mobile 6 – access and edit familiar applications on the move
In-built Wi-Fi capability
3 mega-pixel camera with auto-focus
Supports Microsoft Direct Push

The MDA Vario III will be available from 28th September. The device is from free when purchased on the Flext 50 tariff.

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T-Mobile Clinches Mobile TV Deal with SKY

T-Mobile today launches its revamped Mobile TV service with the addition of three Sky Mobile TV packages and 24/7 Football to provide customers with more choice than ever before. The deal sees T-Mobile add live Barclays Premier League football, live premium news, a music package and a range of entertainment channels to its existing portfolio of entertainment, sports and news content. The agreement also brings 24/7 Football from Sky Sports, The Sun and The News of World to T-Mobile customers providing Premiership goals and UEFA Champions League highlight clips for download.

Sky MobileTV T-Mobile will offer a choice of three fantastic Sky live Mobile TV packs for customers with a 3G handset. ‘News & Sport’, ‘Entertainment’, and ‘Music’ packages offer T-Mobile customers the chance to keep up with the latest news, music videos and must-have TV shows from a great choice of channels including Sky One, Sky Sports News, CNN, MTV, Sky Sports 1,2 ,3 , The Box and Paramount Comedy. Sky Packs are priced at £5 per month.

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3G HSDPA Boost for T-Mobile

T-Mobile and BT Wholesale announced a new agreement that sees BT link thousands of T-Mobile's base station sites around the UK to the T-Mobile network.

The contract, potentially worth several hundred million pounds over the next five years, will deliver T-Mobile a cost-efficient and flexible next generation service to support its growth plans and help avoid any investment risk in building out its own capability.

BT will connect thousands of T-Mobile's base stations around the UK to the central T-Mobile network. Leased lines will be used to connect these sites at first before an Ethernet-based service is introduced.

The new Ethernet service will further enhance the delivery of access and backhaul services to T-Mobile. It will be designed and built to be fully compatible with BT's 21st Century Network (21CN), the most advanced next generation network (NGN) in the world. The service will provide T-Mobile with a key stepping stone towards developing new customer services based on next generation network technology. It will also provide T-Mobile with the network capacity required to support future bandwidth hungry mobile services based on High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) technology. These include Mobile TV and music and video downloads.

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T-Mobile Launches Music Jukebox for 3G Phones

T-Mobile now offers instant mobile access to over 500,000 music tracks, all priced at £1, with the launch of its new dual download Mobile Jukebox service. Available to download onto a range of more than 30 handsets, whether 2.5G or 3G, on pay-as-you-go or contract, T-Mobile is unleashing music on the move for the masses.

Backed by the four major record labels (Universal Music Group, SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, EMI Music and Warner Music International) as well as the key independents such as V2 and Beggars Banquet, the new service offers access to every chart track and loads more from a mobile phone.

Available on a handset to suit every style and budget, there’s a range of 32 phones, starting from free with a contract to £50 for a pre-pay model. Nineteen of them are pay-as-you-go phones, so customers on a budget needn’t miss out. To make the service available to the widest number of people, T-Mobile is running Mobile Jukebox on both ‘2.5G’ and ‘3G’ phones. So you don’t need a super-fast phone to download music the moment you want it.

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