The Google Nexus One phone is no secret to bloggers. Unlike Apple, Google did not seem to be very strict with its employees leaking information and pictures of the phone. However, today Google made the phone official with a press conference at its headquarters in California. The Nexus One will be running Android 2.1 as its operating system meaning it will have the latest version of Android. The phone is manufactured by HTC, however it is going to be sold through Google. The Nexus One has a 5 megapixel camera, a trackball, and a 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen. The phone has GPS, Wi-Fi, a compass, and accelerometer.

The phone is available to customers today for $549 unlocked to T-Mobile’s bands (meaning no AT&T 3G). It is also available on T-Mobile with a two-year contract for $179. Google didn’t forget about the Verizon customers though, the Nexus ONe will be available on Verizon this Spring. It will also be available on Vodaphone in the future.

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With the holiday season approaching fast, we at Smartphone Nation thought it would only be right to make a holiday gift guide to help you choose the perfect the gift. There have been many great phone launches this year; however, a few stuck out as superior. We have though of all major carriers when writing this review, so make sure to take carriers into consideration when making your choice.

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T-Mobile has launches its new plans. You may have heard this on the internet and internally being called “Project Dark”. The Even More plans are the two-year contract ones that offer great prices and unlimited plans from $59.99. The Even More Plus plans do not require a contract and have unlimited plans from $49.99. All of the plans include free mobile to mobile and free nights and weekends.

T-Mobile has also introduced a in-store payment plan for customers buying a phone. Customers on Even More plans can get 4 interest-free payments on phones above $19.99. Customers on Even More Plus plans can get 20 interest-free payments on phones above $19.99.

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The BlackBerry Bold 9700 is one of the most anticipated phones of 2009. GSM phone users are sick of the Bold and want a new 3G BlackBerry. Well today RIM began by making the phone official with its own website. Within an hour carrier followed with press releases alerting the world that the phone is going to be available on their carrier. AT&T is going to be carrying it “in the coming weeks” and will be charging $199.99 after a mail-in rebate. T-Mobile will be releasing it “in time for the holiday season”. Rogers will be releasing the phone “in the coming weeks” and will be charging $299.99 with qualifying plans. Bell only says that the phone will be released in November.

T-Mobile has offered current customers the opportunity to get the Motorola CLIQ ahead of the November 2nd release. Customers will be able to upgrade for as low as $199.99 with a two year contract. For everyone who wants to join T-Mobile to get this phone, you will still need to wait until November 2nd unfortunately.

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As someone in the field of technology, I cannot even begin to express how important my information is. I have several backups of all important information. Today Danger’s users are feeling the pain because of data loss on their servers. However, I seriously do not believe that anyone’s data in gone.

So what happened?

Remember that device that kept T-Mobile afloat all those years? The one glorified in every music video and carried by every teenager. Well the Google phone came out last year and all of a sudden the sidekick became less relevant. T-Mobile is the only carrier in the US still providing service through Danger. Suncom is gone… and most overseas carriers no longer support the Hiptop platform. So what is the point of keeping servers around when the ship is sinking? T-Mobile no longer needs the sidekick to bring in revenue; the carrier has more services and more devices that keep customers coming in. Microsoft purchased Danger and reportedly has them working on Project Pink. I believe that Danger is shaking the sidekick tree for apples, meaning they are trying to get rid of customers.

Since the platform’s release, there has not been an outage were customers have lost data. At least to my knowledge; I was a sidekick user for some years. Companies that deal with any type of data (internal or customer related) have several backups of information. Backups occur offsite and onsite. I am just not buying the answer they gave. I would like to see Danger come from behind T-Mobile and give people an official answer. I think people deserve that, after all their data is “GONE”.

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CTIA 2009 is going on right now and has yielded some interesting news from phone makers. The latest is the BlackBerry 8520 and the BlackBerry Bold in white. CrackBerry was looking at the BlackBerry booth, when they noticed that there were a few BlackBerrys in white. He decided to take a look and noticed that they were indeed the 8520 and the Bold in white. Notice that the white 8520 is branded T-Mobile because it is currently available on their site! We are still not sure on the white Bold, but CrackBerry seems to think it will be availalbe from AT&T’s website sometime in the middle of this month. Click the Read link to check out more photos!

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After much speculation, RIM has finally announced the BlackBerry Curve 8520 and added it to its website. The BlackBerry 8520 is going to be the first BlackBerry with trackpad navigation and out of box Mac compatibility. We are unsure why RIM is still making 3G-less devices, but that is another issue. The 8520 features Wi-Fi, 2.0 megapixel camera, bluetooth, and a 320×240 pixel screen.

RIM, along with T-Mobile, has also announced the availability of the Curve 8520 on the T-Mobile network. We told you on Saturday that there was speculation of a August 5 launch, but it is now official. The phone will be available in T-Mobile stores, Wal-Mart stores, select dealers, and online.

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Today T-Mobile announced an agreement with RadioShack that allows T-Mobile phones to be sold in store. RadioShack will begin selling these phones later this summer including the upcoming MyTouch 3G. T-Mobile will be available in over 4,000 stores nationwide . Check out the full press release after the jump.

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It’s been a long time coming…but we finally are seeing another 3G smartphone on T-Mobile’s network.

The HTC Dash 3G is T-Mobile’s first (and currently, only) 3G Windows Mobile smartphone.

Specs include:

• Quad band GSM/Edge with 1700MHz access for T-Mobile’s 3G network.
• 2.0 Megapixel camera
• Windows Mobile
• Full QWERTY
• 5 hour talk time with 9 day stand by time (claimed).
• Trackball navigation.

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