T-Mobile was running a promotion for customers who buy the T-Mobile Dash (HTC Excalibur), when they bought the T-Mobile Dash they would recieve a free 512 MB microSD memory card with some additional software. (Offer expired April 30th sorry)

The microSD card is a Kingston card and while Kingston may not be the biggest name in memory cards they are in my opinion the best. So this is a micro review of their microSD card. So why are they the best?

Well I performed a series of simple non scientific test. I timed how long the three microSD cards I had took to load a song via Windows Media Player Mobile on my Dash, how long it took to install Live Search onto each of the cards and how fast I could transfer files on the card onto my computers desktop using the adapters they come with. Each test the kingston memory card out performed similar cards from its major competitors such as SanDisk and Crucial by 1 or 2 seconds. The microSD card from Kingston that T-Mobile offered was 2 seconds faster in everything when compared to the Crucial card and tied or was 1 second faster than the SanDisk card.

I know those test aren’t the greatest of examples and 1 or 2 seconds faster may not seem like much but it is what it is. Sure I could of benchmarked the cards and gave you a bunch of numbers a lot of people would have trouble understanding, but I figured I would use a stop watch and actually time the performance, as those numbers in my opinion tend to be more realistic.

The Kingston microSD card that T-Mobile users recieved via the promotion also included FizzWeather and Concrete No Limites Texas Hold’em poker game.

Today Sprint introduced the new Mogul, a Windows Mobile 6 smartphone from HTC.

The Mogul will feature a 2 mega-pixel camera with flash, 256 MB of flash memory expandable with a MicroSD card (Ships with a 512MB card).

The Mogul will be the first device available from Sprint that allows for Java appellations. It will also support the Sprint Music store.

“The Mogul(TM) by HTC gives customers the power to be more productive and manage a busy personal and professional life with the most advanced wireless capabilities and features available on any pocket-sized device,” said Danny Bowman, vice president of customer equipment for Sprint. “With support for Windows Mobile 6, Bluetooth and integrated Wi-Fi for data, customers have more choices for staying productive on the go today and can look forward to enhanced wireless data speeds in the future with the EV-DO Rev. A upgrade.”

The Mogul by HTC will be available this week online at http://www.sprint.com and in Sprint business sales channels for $399.99 with a two-year service agreement. The Mogul by HTC will be available in Sprint retail stores in July.

Like they did for Mothers Day T-Mobile is allowing all users to send and receive text messages for free this coming Sunday June 17th Fathers day.

When T-Mobile users log into my.t-mobile.com they are greeted with the following message:

FREE MESSAGING on June 17th Mark your calendars for Stick Together Days. We’re giving our valued customers free picture, video, IM and text messaging on Father’s Day, June 17th.

For more information visit: http://www.sticktogether.com/

T-Mobile today announced the imediate availability of the new T-Mobile Wing.

The T-Mobile Wing is designed to help customers master their busy personal and professional lives. Developed by High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC), the world’s leading provider of Microsoft Windows Mobile-based devices, the T-Mobile Wing has a blue soft-touch exterior, touch screen, and full, slide-out QWERTY keyboard—a great fit for customers seeking a powerful all-in-one device with an eye-catching design and enhanced ease of use.

In today’s hectic and fast-paced world, staying connected to those who matter most is not easy,” said Leslie Grandy, vice president, Product Development, T-Mobile USA. “With the T-Mobile Wing, customers have the freedom to choose how to communicate, whether it’s calling their loved ones, e-mailing with friends, or sharing presentations with a client from one of more than 8,000 T-Mobile HotSpot locations.”

The T-Mobile Wing is a Windows Mobile 6 phone.

“The T-Mobile Wing with Windows Mobile 6 helps people stay connected with friends, family and colleagues, whether they’re in the office or on the go,” said John O’Rourke, general manager, Mobile Communications Business, Microsoft Corp. “The T-Mobile Wing’s work and play features help people take their PC experience on the road with them, making sure they’re always in touch.”

Specs:
-- Compact, powerful smartphone with large external touch screen and stylus

-- Slide-out screen exposing full QWERTY keypad

-- Soft-touch exterior with deep blue color

-- Wi-Fi and EDGE-enabled high-speed Internet access

-- Full HTML Web browsing

-- Support for Microsoft Office Mobile enables document viewing and editing

-- Windows Live for Windows Mobile including Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Hotmail, Live Search, and Windows Live Spaces

-- Direct Push e-mail available with Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and later; Windows Live Hotmail also supports push mail

-- T-Mobile’s myFaves

-- Voice dialing, voice commands and voice recorder

-- Bluetooth connectivity

-- 2.0 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom

-- Video capture and playback music and video player

-- Micro SD memory card slot

-- 2.8-inch diagonal, 65,000 color screen with 240x320 pixels

-- 2.3 x 4.3 x 0.7 inches; 6.0 ounces

-- 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz

-- GSM/GPRS/EDGE/Wi-Fi

The T-Mobile Wing will be available exclusively to T-Mobile customers beginning May 22 at T-Mobile retail stores and online at http://www.t-mobile.com visit our forums for a picture.

A lot of people would like a Sidekick but a lot of those people at the same time may not like T-Mobile, and some people just want a phone similar to the Sidekick. So I have decided to put a list of similar phones available from deferent service providers. The list consist of phones I personally like.

Alltel:
Kyocera Strobe K612B

Cingular:
Cingular 8125 Pocket PC

Sprint:
IP-830W by Samsung

Verizon:
SCH-u740
LG enV
LG VX9400

Personally I think Verizon has the best selection of all and my favorite of all the phones listed is the LG enV, in fact I think both the LG phones listed are the best to bad they don’t offer them to more providers.

I am aware that I left out some blackberries etc but I honestly don’t like any with the exception of the Pearl.

Hope you find this list useful and for images of the phones click here.

A member on our forums Cody has pointed out to us that Rogers Mobile (Canadian Service Provider) is now offering a My5 plan.

The My5 plan is similar to the T-mobile MyFaves plan which allows unlimited calling to 5 people of your choice on any carrier, however unlike the MyFaves plan from T-Mobile, My5 from Rogers gives unlimited texting to those 5 people as well. The plan cost an extra 10 dollars a month.

For more information about My5 click here.

T-Mobile today announced that it has added over 980,000 new customers, to bring their total customer base to over 26 million.

The annoucement was made in their financil report for the first quarter of 2007, the report also stated that T-Mobiles average revenue per user went from 51 to 52 dollars, and posted an operating income of $1.22 billion up 11% from last year.

I am one of those new 980,000 customers as I switched from Cingular to T-Mobile a month and a half ago, I also know of a guy who switched to T-Mobile from Nextel, he got the Dash but couldn’t figure it out so he switched to the SideKick 3.

T-Mobile Dash customers like my self will be the first users in the US to beable to experience Windows Mobile 6. (Outside of the Microsoft Beta)

Begining May 4th T-Mobile Dash customers can upgrade from Windows Mobile 5.0 to Windows Mobile 6 via a free desktop download available directly from T-Mobile.

“T-Mobile is focused on finding new and richer ways to help our customers stay connected to the people that matter most,” said Leslie Grandy, vice president, product development, T-Mobile USA. “As the first company in the U.S. to offer the increased functionality of Microsoft Windows Mobile 6, T-Mobile continues to build on the already great communication experience for T-Mobile Dash customers and our promise to help people ‘Stick Together.’”

On the 4th to get the upgrade visit: http://www.t-mobile.com/wmupgrade

In honor of Mother’s Day, T-Mobile is celebrating Stick Together day, and giving all of its users free Text Messaging and Picture Messaging on May 13th.

The following message is displayed to users who login to their account on-line:

“Mark your calendars for Stick Together Day. We’re giving our valued customers free picture, video, IM and text messaging on Mother’s Day, May 13.”

So mark your Calendar and surprise your mom with a few Picture and Video Messages.

For more information about Stick Together day, login to your account at http://my.t-mobile.com or visit http://www.t-mobile.com/sticktogether

We here at CellRants.com applaud T-Mobile for offering this to its customers on such a wonderful day as Mothers Day.

The Sidekick ID, dubbed the “SideKick for people on welfare” due to the cheap price and lack of features is now available for purchase.

The SideKick ID has a similar in design to the SideKick 3, but lacks key features; for example the SideKick ID does not play MP3’s and does not come with a camera.

You can get the SideKick ID from T-mobile for 99.99 with a 2 year contract.

For more information about the SideKick ID click here or visit t-mobile.