T-Mobile announces Nokia 6301 and Samsung SGH-t339, world yawns
Exciting these new handsets are not, but if you’re in the market for a middle of the road Hotspot@Home-capable T-Mobile device, your search just got a bit more cumbersome. First off is the Nokia 6301, which T-Mobile is describing as having “the style of a home phone with the look of a mobile”. We’re not entirely sure that’s a good thing, but we suppose you can be the judge. Specs include:
- Wi-Fi-enabled; supports T-Mobile HotSpot @Home
- T-Mobile myFavesSM-enabled
- Music player (supports WMA, MP3, AAC and eAAC+)
- Stereo Bluetooth connectivity
- 2.0 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and video capture
- Expandable memory with microSD (support for up to 4GB)
- Instant messaging; supports AIM, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live
- Speakerphone
- FM radio
Next up is the Samsung t339, which is another yawner of a phone, sporting:
- T-Mobile myFaves-enabled
- Music player (supports MP3, AAC and AAC+)
- Stereo Bluetooth connectivity
- 1.3 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and video capture
- Expandable memory with microSD (support for up to 2GB)
- Instant messaging; supports AIM, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live
- Speakerphone
Both are available immediately, but if it were up to us, these two would be sent directly to the D.O.A. pile.
Gee… Can you be a little more condescending in your stories about T-Mobile… Oh… It’s not 3G so then they are just crap… well… then quit taking their money for advertising on this damn website…
t-mobile really needs to do something about their network and phone line-up. the sidekick isn’t going to carry them forever.
Bring on Android and the X1 please…..
I work for T-Mobile and have had a chance to play with the 6301.
While it is only a triband phone, it’s a rock solid upper middle range phone with UMA and a nice metal body.
World yawns is right! Another boring candybar and flip phone. These may be rock solid phones, but if no one wants them, what’s the point? I really wish T-Mob would start pushing the envelope more in terms of style. Why is it that they took a chance with the Sidekick but refuse to try anything else?
The Shadow 2 look like it will be pretty nice! That should be the first Windows Mobile device with UMA. T-Mo USA is also trying to be the first to release an Android phone. Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing though.
when t mobile finally carries the edge only lg viewty call me
T-Mobile might not have exciting phones but I don’t buy carrier phones anyway. They want me to sign a contract… I don’t do contracts. Buy unlocked, be happy, and enjoy their quality network (3G or not).
Yes Joshua please tell us what you really think about T-mobile. Why do you have all this anger towards Tmobile?
Did you have Tmo services and you wernt happy with it?
Were you employeed by tmobile and got fired for downloading porn at work?
Is ATT paying you to hate Tmobile?
Are you just upset because the Boy Genuis seem to get all the best stories?
I just don’t understand your reporting style. Latly your stories are becoming more entertaining then informative. What ever happened to your tech reports I always thought of you as the RIM tech guy of BGR. If you have lost your love for true informative reporting just keep up with what you are doing and let the real reporting be done by BG and the others.
@ jdslim / everyone
I think the bigger issue here is that technically, none of these phones change. T-Mobile used the be the best in terms of getting exclusive phones and now they’ve resorted to hyping up bumper-crop devices. Name one hot T-Mobile exclusive phone? It’s frustrating because, believe it or not, we love T-Mobile. We just think they need to do better, and boy will we praise them when they do! Now, Sprint… that’s a whole different animal.
t mobile + lg viewty = sweet moses!
YYAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think T-mobile is focusing on the one aspect of their company that no one is competing with…wifi calling. These UMA phones has no counterpart…call them boring but we all too well understand the bull surround signals within buildings, schools, etc. UMA phones bridge that gap by allowing you to use the wi-fi signal to stay connected.
The phones are borrowing but considering the first UMA phones that came out, these are definetly steping up like they need to.
T-Mobile is great but I guess I never care about there line-up since I am going to buy the latest E or N series phone nokia has anyways and use that.
This is just the calm before the storm… wait til you see what they have up their sleeves.
You just got to give them a little time… Q4 is only 3 months away…
Dude… Just because the phone isn’t a web-capable, touch screen UMPC, doesn’t mean its yawn inducing. The 6301, at least, is a very nice, capable phone. The UMA calling is a fantastic feature, and this little guy holds onto Wi-Fi signal like a drowning man holding onto a life preserver. Granted, I’d like the ability to download java apps to the device, but aside from that one extremely minor gripe, this phone is solid. Besides, T-Mo needed to get some fresh blood into its UMA lineup. Forcing people to choose between a 6086 or a Blackberry to access this service was a bit short-sighted.
I can not wait until the end of my T mobile contract, Their coverage in Lake County, east of Cleveland where I live is almost non-existent. They have said for years that they are “working on it”. This is one of the largest population density areas in Ohio. I have five different phones with them. They all have coverage about 50% of the time. HERE T-mobile coverage does suck. And their phone selection is years behind the competition.
Oh and did I mention no 3G?
I spent a month in Japan in 04 and they were communicating with video then on their 3G network. Four years later I am (STILL) stuck with EDGE here…. please..
A direct response from the Boy Genius himself. I don’t remember this ever happening before and I have been commenting on BGR since the blackberry pearl was exclusive to T-mobile. Give me a second to reflect on this moment.
Wow I guess I must have ruffled some feathers with you guys with my comment. I stopped using regular phones ever since I got my first exclusive 7105 bb from T-mobile. Now you asked me for a list of some hot new exclusive TMO phones and your right, beside the sidekicks and the shadow one would have to agree with what you said about T-mobiles lack of new high end phones.
Joshua always seems to be negative about T-mobile, even when it should be a positive report such as when Tmobile rolled out unlimited pooling plans. He just had to state that the cost was too high for adding an other line. I am not saying he is a bad writer but it just seems he is just out t here to get Tmobile.
Its all in how you see things for example you asked me for a list of exclusive Tmobile phones and I agreed saying that they didn’t have many. Yet I could have said that with T-mobiles exclusive use of UMA that all tmo phones that support hotspots@home are exclusive to T-mobile. Wow, now look at T-mobiles line up of high end exclusive pda’s. T-mobile offers not just one but three of the most powerfull blackberries ever designed for UMA calling. The 8120, 8820 and the 8320 are designed to take full advantage T-mobiles exclusive UMA offering and allows callers to make calls using wifi.
Yeah these phones are not the coolest phones in town and the phones are not for everone. The people who are interested with these phone are not going to buy them for how they look but for how they function with making calls over UMA. Someone just planning on getting a basic UMA phone would more then happy ownng one of these new phones.
Wow I used the word exclusive eight times, is that a new type of record or something?
I now have the 6301, and it is a very nice phone for UMA calling. I agree that T-Mobile is lacking on special devices to set them apart, but this phone works great, feels very solid, and has a good feature set.
After being with T-Mo for more than 10 years i am also frustrated with they lineup.
True I can get a unlocked phone now but when they go 3g the picking of unlocked phone will get smaller.
T-Mo does need to pick up there game or lose people like me.
To tune c.
T-mobile going 3g isn’t going to effect the number of unlock phones available. An unlocked phone is an unlocked phone. As long as the unlocked phone supports GSM/1900 you’ll be able to use it with T-mobile. Tmobile getting 3g isn’t going to change that . Now of course if you want to get an unlocked 3g phone such as the tilt to connect to anything faster then GPRS/EDGE it won’t be able too but you’ll still be able to use an unlocked 3g phone with TMO edge network.
Could we possibly get someone who is not totally biased to write an article about these two new phones. Josh should take a look at the Endgadget article about the two same phones to see how it is done properly. They are not too thrilled about the phones either but at least they don’t bash them the whole time. Just because they are not a new Blackberry or the X1 doesn’t mean they are terrible phones. They aren’t half as bad as this article is written. You do know that there are people out there that don’t care about 3g, touchscreen, full web browsing, mp3 playing all-in-one devices right? So how about next time you write an article try being objective and see past your narrow views of what you think everyone wants in a phone.
If you like T-Mobile so much why do most articles here about them bash them for BS reasons! If you want better phone than petition them with the supposed thousands of readers you have and see what happens. OR is that an idea that escaped the boy genius?
Oh forgot to mention EXCLUSIVE devices for T-Mobile: Sidekicks, Shadow, Dash, Wing, had Pearl first, should I go on?!?!?!
I’m fine with coverage here in Cincinnati.