T-Mobile to potentially open up T-Zones
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T-Mobile director of handset innovation Saj Sahar hinted earlier this week that T-Mobile T-zones would be relaunched and rebranded into something similar to “Web n’ Walk”. Available only in Europe, Web n’ Walk allows full Internet access on any T-Mobile phone. Novel concept, huh? Novel at least for T-Mobile who, as part of their T-Zones service, blocks certain ports on its branded phones in order to force users to use only the standard xHTML browser included on the phone. For those T-Mobile folks who have suffered through this crippled web experience, an overhaul and an opening up of T-zones is very good news .
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J’adore Tmobile.
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T-homo are such losers!!!
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Wow really??
I have T-mobile and I’ve been using Opera Mini for years with
Unlimited internet for just 5 dollars
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Ok well I don’t know a lot about other carriers so bear with me. But is Tmobile the fist to do this? Tzones was never meant to be used for the interenet was just there for downloading music, games, etc. So them giving everyone access to some sort of free internet is good, right?
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It didn’t used to be closed. I used to be able to use Opera and Google Maps on any T-Mobile branded phone, but on my 5300 XpressMusic I can’t for some reason. I guess it’s about time to open the floodgates again!
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Well Tzones is not free it is about $5 USD a month. It gives access to some web sites like yahoo mobile and google mobile. If you know what you are doing or search the internet you can tether another device into your phone and get full internet access, like hooking an N810 into a phone via bluetooth and then surfing the web. It is slow, but it works.
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Tmobile sucks if they don’t get that effin storm they can kiss my ass goodbye
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Are you dense? Only Verizon’s getting the Storm EVER.
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Then go idiot, go pay more for voice and data over a touchscreen!
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@ Jeremiah:
Are YOU dense? Read over the last few days and notice that its not just Verizon you tool.
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Hey christian just five dollars! Wow you must really be a cheap ass!!!
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Plz suck it
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Initially, T-zones was meant to be a FREE limited wap site that was pre-installed on tmobile devices. It enables customers to download ring tones,alerts, weather info, view account info, download wall papers and read up on some tmobile news. Obviously this has changed as you can now get T-zones (same name as the limited wap version)for $5 which gives you unlimited web access. You’d be surprised that some T-mobile reps still don’t know that you can get unlimited internet access via the $5 T-zones and they tend to confuse it for the regular limited free t-zones.I am a previous SunCom customer and had the internet for $5 (Yes, I’m cheap.Why the hell do you think I went with SunCom in the first place, lol).So when T-mobile took over formally on 09/08/2008, I was switched to the $5 Total internet. Yes! TOTAL INTERNET; the same one you know.(this is only being offered to SunCom customers who had the internet on their plan prior to the transition).I also have the $5 T-zones on my other lines, as prior to the transition only one line had the internet so that was the line that got the total internet(I have 4 lines in total). I can still access virtually ANY website..CNN, Yahoo!, Facebook, MySpace even food network on the $5 T-zones or the total internet…lol. I’ve heard about the limitations (even from T-mobile reps) regarding the $5 T-zones but I sincerely doubt it. At one point I was told that push email will not work on my T-mobile shadow since I only had the $5 total internet…WRONG! Now I’m being sent a blackberry pearl after going through 3 defective shadow and I’m being told to add the blackberry unlimited add on or else my internet may not work.I’m waiting to see how true this is because so far NO T-mobile rep seems to know how their optional services REALLY work.
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Hey Trey,
Were you able to access the web on your Blackberry Pearl with $5 Tzones? I’ve been unable to so far.
cheers, please reply
tbruise at (the email site starting with a g, and owned by google.com)
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So tzones changed? I did not subscribe for the unlimted internet access. Then when i went to tzones, the yahoo searched worked? would i need to pay for that search?
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Yes, it’s true. At least for me.
I’ve had the $5 internet (called different things over the years) for a few years now. At first, I was able to use Opera Mini (a FANTASTIC (and free) browser). Then it stopped working as T Mobile closed ports. Then came back briefly … and has been inaccessible ever since. So now I am stuck with the phone’s built-in browser. (Opera Mini is a Java app, which is apparently how the network discriminates against it; it needs the ports that TMo closes, then reopens, then closes again like a bunch of freaks. The built in browser doesn’t need the closed ports to work.)
On the plus side, though, the $5 internet gives me access to all websites. It’s slow, admittedly.
Hopefully someone will eventually learn the lesson that the way to win the game is to give people a good value for their money.
Remember the days of dial up AOL … where you had to pay through the nose PER HOUR?
Also, in most parts of the world, cell minute are not counted if the call originated from somewhere beside the cell phone itself. Kind of like your home phone. My Australian and European friends think it’s nuts we have to pay just to receive calls. So the American model would never work there now. But because that’s what we were first introduced to, we’ve just come to accept it.
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