FCC approves Samsung T929 for T-Mobile
Fret not, T-Mobile fans! It appears as though AT&T isn’t going to be the only carrier graced with an 8-megapixel touch screen phone from Samsung. The long rumored T929, or Leica or Memoir or any other name that has been passed through the rumor mill, has just received its blessing from the FCC. How do we know it’s for T-Mobile? Well, slapping a 1700MHz radio into the phone isn’t going to help it on any other US carrier, is it? That’s right, you’ll get to enjoy HSDPA to make your Internet experience a little more bearable with this one. According to the FCC docs, the T929 will also support GPS and Bluetooth as well. No release dates or pricing as of yet, but we’re thinking it should be reasonable with a contract and all that jazz. We’ll be sure to keep you guys posted!
This would be awesome if offered in 09!
If T-Mobile cripples this phone as much as it does with the Samsung T919 Behold, it will be another failure.
What’s crippled on the Behold? Internet? You can fix that – read a real website and not this BGR crap that rips off TmoNews and you’ll find out how.
How about BT tethering? How about unsigned 3rd party apps?
Oh yeah and I forgot about real email support not the crappy-email-forwarding-while-using-text-message service that T-Mobile calls “email client”.
All carriers cripple their dumbphones so I’m not sure whhy people act as if tmobile is the only one that does it. Just ask those on “the network”
chuong, it’s a dumbphone not a smartphone. like glenn said, ur not gonna find that stuff on a us dumbphone.
Seriously, put things into perspective. If you want the smartphone experience, get a smartphone. Otherwise, just let this and the Behold be a multimedia dumbphone.
If it’s a dumb phone, why does T-Mobile require a smartphone data plan for the T919? If you are going to charge customers $25/moth for data, keep the phone opened and let customers use it to its capacity.
@Glenn
Sprint and AT&T doesn’t cripple their phones from using unsigned 3rd party apps or bluetooth crippling.
so its not gonna be running winmo? thats kinda of a shame tmo needs a winmo 3g device like right now
tmo makes it very easy to heal all their crippling…hell even customer support will get rid of some of your headaches if you ask nicely…i think they’re terrible but they are VERY accommodating ill give them that
Well, Chuong, now you’re complaining about two different things. The smartphone data plan does not make it a smartphone. File your complaint about the plan, if that’s your real beef, because your other ‘points’ don’t tread water. All that said, consider this joint bought.
And RoseGold, I sure as hell don’t need a winmo anything. I’ve been tired of Microsoft’s hiccups for a long time now, and a lot of other people would agree with me.
My point is that if it’s treated as a smartphone (requiring smartphone data plan), it should be opened, 3rd party apps (unsigned) friendly, and used as a modem (USB and BT).
AT&T has a similar phone (Samsung A867 Eternity) except the camera (3.2MP instead of 5MP) and it’s not locked down. The unlimited MediaNet plan ($15) can be used with that phone.
Even if it’s not a smartphone, unsigned Java apps should be allowed. Also the original email client (as in the F480) should be used instead of the T-Mobile locked-down-email client.
I don’t know how you guys defending a company that cripples phones as much as T-Mobile or Verizon.
T-Mobile has become the GSM version of Verizon.
a call center and to give you a heads up this phone was in the roster for upcoming 2009 release phones
, what they have now is for christmas so scrap the g1 and wait for this, oh and if you can’t afford a 1 year contract don’t go for a 2 year half you idiots never pay your bill and end up canceling and paying the 200 etf fee 
, also perfered rate plans are better ask for em we offer em only if ppl ask 
save you better money, and NEVER GOTO a mobile solutions they will fuck you over 10 ways till sunday, fraud lies and the biggest amount of customer complaints just a heads up
this is a good step for T-mobile’s phone line up. I mean it is the first new phone that I would buy from t-mobile since the sidekick II
It’s Called the Memoir. Not running WinMo, but Samsung’s most recent touchscreen OS. It’s a decent phone. The extra megapixels almost make up for the lack of an optical zoom.
It looks gorgeous !
does this phone have WI-FI??
Feb 25….release date, enjoy…