Mobiles2day – Mobile Industry News

T-Mobile’s G1 is coming to UK on 31st October 2008. Here is promotional video for this handset:

T-Mobile has listed first HTC made handset that runs on Google’s Android platform in coming soon section.

Handset is called G1 or HTC Dream, runs all Google apps and have full QWERTY keyboard. Below are highlights of this handset from T-Mobile website:

* High speed 3G internet gets you online, surfing is even faster using the full touchscreen and trackball
* The full QWERTY keyboard makes it easy to write what you really want to say
* All your favourite Google^TM services are already on board – search, IM, email and maps with GPS
* It’s the first phone with the Android Market^TM so you can download the applications you want

 You can register to be notified when this handset is available from T-Mobile.

Good work by T-Mobile UK, their website is voted top of an independent customer poll of mobile networks’ websites!

Independent benchmarking company Global Reviews asked more than 1,000 web customers for their views of the UK networks’ websites. It assessed sites against more than 500 criteria, including content and usability. T-Mobile scored top place with 68 per cent and 3 was last with 53 per cent.

A Global Reviews spokeswoman said: “T-Mobile received high scores in almost all categories and a significant improvement in site utility. But it improved just one per cent since January and others are gaining.

“Orange improved nine per cent, O2 five, 3 by four and Virgin Mobile three. Overall the industry average is up by seven per cent.”

Vodafone increased its score but only made it to third place, while O2 came fourth. Virgin came fifth but was one of the most improved sites.

Via Mobile News

T-Mobile in partnership with BAA turned Heathrow Terminal 5 into WiFi HotSpot. Passengers using this terminal can now use internet connection via their laptops, mobiles and PDAs. The new Heathrow Terminal 5 WiFi HotSpot is T-Mobile’s largest in the UK, which is  approximately equivalent to 50 football pitches. T-Mobile is the largest provider of public WiFi in the world, with over 1,000 HotSpots in the UK alone and 27,000 worldwide.

The Wi-Fi service is also available through T-Mobile at the other Heathrow Terminals.

T-Mobile’s customers on Mobile Broadband Plus and Max tariffs have free Wi-Fi access included, so they can use this facility whenever they travel via Terminal 5. T-Mobile Hotspots are also available in other Heathrow terminals, but in designated places only.

For passengers who are not customers of T-Mobile, the Terminal 5 HotSpot service is priced at £5 for one hour’s access, or £10 for 24 hours, payable by credit card. T-Mobile customers on voice plans can set up a HotSpot account and opt to pay via their monthly bill at a charge of 75p for ten minutes’ access as well as benefit from dedicated customer support for those seeking advice on how to access T-Mobile’s HotSpot services.

T-Mobile is giving away free SIM cards again:

https://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/free-pay-as-you-go-sim-cards/

Fill in the form on their site and you will get not one but two SIM cards. Both SIM cards are on Mates Rates prepay tariff, but you can change to any other prepay tariff that T-Mobile currently offering.

Don’t forget about T-Mobile’s ‘Topup and Stretch’ offer, if you topup £10 during the week, T-Mobile rewards you with £10 to spend during weekend!