Posts Tagged "tmobile"

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Prepaid phones gain traction among the budget-minded

Just after last week’s post on why Americans don’t use prepaid phones as much as people in Europe and Asia, here comes the Wall Street Journal with an article about how budget-minded Americans are switching to prepaid phones. As the WSJ piece points out, many prepaid plans in the US come with simple, older phones, but they’re great for people who don’t make a lot of phone calls. I have a T-Mobile prepaid plan which I use when I am…

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T-Mobile G1 Android phone is out, but has serious flaws

T-Mobile rolled out its latest device, the G1 phone which uses Android (Google’s open-source OS for mobile devices). Now that the hype has finally died down, here’s my take on the phone:

it’s rather ugly: cheap plastic keyboard, looks too much like all the other old devices with their cheap plastic keyboards (thinking of the Sidekick) no desktop syncing application no video playback except for YouTube; you need an SD card for music or video playback you can use only one…
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