The Motorola CLIQ, the first Android-powered handset to come from Motorola, is now available nationwide from T-Mobile for a price of $199.99 after an instant discount of $200 dollars and a new two year agreement. To celebrate the launch of the new handset, T-Mobile also launched a new T-Mobile Motorola CLIQ Challenge today to build the largest college fan club on Facebook.

For those of you not familiar with the CLIQ, here are the main features and specs:

• MOTOBLUR – Stream your social networking feeds to your handset in real time, providing instant access to the latest happenings and messages from your friends.
• 3.1 inch HVGA full touch-screen display
• Support for Android Market
• 5 megapixel camera
• 3G network and Wi-Fi connectivity
• Visual Voicemail
• Bluetooth support
• Full slide-out QWERTY keyboard
• Built-in GPS
• microSD memory slot
• Built-in music player
• Built-in video capture and playback support
• 3.5 mm headset jack
• 6 hour talk time and 13.5 day standby time
• Measures 4.5 x 2.3 x 0.61 inches
• Available in two colors – Titanium and Winter White

The CLIQ is also available with T-Mobile’s new Even More Plus plans (which are contract-less plans) for a price of $399.99.

To help promote the launch of the new CLIQ, T-Mobile launches the T-Mobile Motorola CLIQ Challenge. The goal? For T-Mobile fans to help create the largest Facebook fan club out there. Fans can simply visit www.facebook.com/tmobile to rally together and vote for the four-year college or university of their choice to win the ultimate grand prize.

The school with the highest # of votes in its clique by Nov. 30th will be awarded with an exclusive free concert by Weezer. In addition, T-Mobile will also award the winning school $1 dollar for every vote up to $25,000 for college enrichment.

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If you’re commitment-phobic to mobile carriers, then you’ll want to check out T-Mobile’s newly announced no-contract-based “Even More Plus” mobile calling plans. These new plans allow you to pay for your mobile service on a month-by-month basis at fairly competitive prices. All the new plans feature free nationwide T-Mobile to T-Mobile calling, free nights and weekends, free overage alerts for non-unlimited users, and whenever minutes you can use whenever. Here are the plans and prices available for individuals:

• Talk Unlimited – $49.99 a month
• Talk 1000 minutes – $39.99 a month
• Talk 500 minutes – $29.99 a month
• Talk + Text Unlimited – $59.99 a month
• Talk + Text 1000 minutes – $49.99 a month
• Talk + Text 500 minutes – $39.99 a month
• Talk + Text + Web Unlimited – $79.99 a month
• Talk + Text + Web 1000 minutes- $69.99 a month
• Talk + Text + Web 500 minutes- $59.99 a month

Family plans are as follows:

• Talk Unlimited – $79.99 a month
• Talk 1500 minutes – $59.99 a month
• Talk 750 minutes – $49.99 a month
• Talk + Text Unlimited – $99.99 a month
• Talk + Text 1500 minutes – $79.99 a month
• Talk + Text 750 minutes – $69.99 a month
• Talk + Text + Web Unlimited – $139.99 a month
• Talk + Text + Web 1500 minutes- $119.99 a month
• Talk + Text + Web 750 minutes- $109.99 a month

So what’s the catch you might ask? You lose subsidized pricing on mobile phones – which can be a lot or a little depending on the handset you want. However, T-Mobile does offer an “equipment installment plan” which allows you to amortize the cost of the handset over a 20 month period – spreading the cost across a longer period of time.

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With the holiday season fast approaching, T-Mobile has decided to announce their upcoming holiday lineup of 3G-enabled mobile phones – including several Android powered headsets from the likes of HTC, Samsung, and Motorola. The new upcoming phones are as follows:

T-Mobile myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition:

The myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition is the latest Android powered handset to come from T-Mobile’s myTouch family. Slated to come out later this year and designed for music lovers out there, the 3G Fender features a guitar-inspired wood-grain finish, integration of Google web services, a 3.5mm headset jack, a pre-installed 16GB microSD card, and exclusive pre-loaded audio/video clips from iconic musicians out there.  No word on pricing as of yet.

Samsung Behold II:

The Samsung Behold II is the first Android-powered handset from Samsung and T-Mobile and features a 3.2 inch AMOLED touch-screen display, Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface, and support for T-Mobile’s 3G network. The handset comes with Samsung’s exclusive cube menu user interface with easy access to features such as photos, music, videos, the web, Amazon MP3, and YouTube services. Other specs include built-in Google mobile services. Wi-Fi support, support for email and corporate email with Exchange ActiveSync, IM support, text/picture/video messaging, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, five shooting modes and video capabilities, visual voicemail, a built-in MP3 player, up to 16GB of external memory, assisted GPS, and Bluetooth 2.1. Expect the Behold II later this year.

Motorola CLIQ with MOTOBLUR:

Yes – T-Mobile’s got another first for this holiday season and it’s the MOTOROLA CLIQ. The CLIQ is Motorola’s first Android-powered handset and features Motorola’s MOTOBLUR solution which manages and integrates communications – from work email to social networking activity – all to the CLIQ’s home screen. You’ll get synchronized updates from source such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Gmail, and personal/work email. Other features include a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 3.1 inch HVGA full touch-screen display, and two color options- winter white, and titanium. Pre-sales for the CLIQ will begin on October 19th with nationwide sales to begin on November 2nd. The CLIQ will be available for $199 along with a new two-year agreement.

T-Mobile Tap:

The T-Mobile Tap is a stylish, attractive, and affordable touch-screen phone featuring support for T-Mobile 3G network, T-Mobile web2go web browsing, a 2 megapixel camera with video capture and playback, a built-in music player, GPS for location-based services powered by TeleNav, stereo Bluetooth support, and support for personal e-mail, SMS, MMS, and IM. Due out later this year, the Tap will be available in two colors – berry and midnight blue.

Nokia 3711:

Finally, the Nokia 3711 is a flip-phone with a unique hidden-until-lit external display. Features include support for T-Mobile’s 3G network, T-Mobile’s web2go web browser, built-in GPS for use with Nokia Maps, a 2 megapixel camera with video capture, stereo Bluetooth, Series 40 OS, and support for IM and email. The phone will be available in the coming weeks in a sable finish color. No word on pricing for either the Nokia 3711 or the T-Mobile Tap.

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The Motorola CLIQ, the first Android-powered smartphone from Motorola, will be available for pre-sale to existing T-Mobile customers starting on October 19th. Eligible T-Mobile customers will be able to pick up the CLIQ for $199.99 (along with a new two year agreement).

Not familiar with the CLIQ? Here’s a summary of features and specs:

• Comes with MOTOBLUR which manages and integrates communications from work email to social messaging activity – all to your home screen. Updates to contacts, posts, messages, photos, etc are streamed together and synced from sources including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Gmail, etc, and then delivered to the home screen in easy to view streams
• Full slide-out QWERTY keyboard
• 3.1 inch HVGA full touch-screen display
• 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity
• 5 megapixel auto-focus camera with video capture
• 3.5mm headset jack
• Built-in music player with pre-loaded Amazon MP3 store
• Other apps include Shazam, iMeem Mobile, AccuWeather, MySpace Mobile, Quickoffice
• preinstalled 2GB microSD memory card
• TeleNav GPS Navigator pre-loaded with free two week trial
• One-touch access to the Google mobile services
• Email support includes Exchange Server, Gmail, Yahoo!, Windows Live Hotmail, POP3 etc
• Available in Titanium and Winter White

The Motorola CLIQ will be available for pre-sale from October 19th till November 1st and will be available in stores nationwide and online beginning November 2nd.

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There’s a new inexpensive 3G messaging phone available at T-Mobile and it’s called the Samsung Gravity 2. The handset features a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, dedicated external messaging button, and support for SMS, MMS, video messaging, email, and IM. Other specs include:

• 2.0 megapixel camera
• Built-in music player
• 3G data network support
• Bluetooth wireless connectivity
• Built-in GPS
• microSD slot
• Speakerphone
• Alarm clock, calculator, calendar, email
• myFaves capable

The Samsung Gravity 2 is being offered in two colors – metallic pumpkin and berry mauvre (what the heck?) – and is available for a limited time at a price of $29.99 along with a new two year agreement and a qualifying data plan (the price includes a $50 dollar mail-in rebate).

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T-Mobile customers out there – listen up. In an effort to reduce costs while helping the environment, T-Mobile will begin charging $1.50 per account for paper billing starting on September 12th. Note – for those of you who already pay for detailed billing, this is added on top of the $1.99 you are currently paying.

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The latest Android-based mobile phone for T-Mobile, the myTouch 3G, is now available for purchase at T-Mobile retail and partner locations as well as online at http://www.t-mobilemytouch.com. In addition to the new handset, T-Mobile will be selling a variety of accessories and customized shells for the phone to help customers personalize their new handset. Customers will be able to choose from a set of pre-designed shell patterns or they can design their own shell by uploading a personal photo, graphic design, or selecting text, shapes, icons, etc.

On the accessory front, T-Mobile will be selling five accessory bundles this month online including a music pack with portable speakers and a bonus promotional card for Amazon MP3 downloads and a fitness pack with a fitness belt and arm band.

The T-Mobile myTouch 3G (designed and manufactured by HTC) will be available for $199.99 along with a new two year agreement.

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The folks at CellPhoneSignal.com have picked up screenshots of marketing material for the upcoming BlackBerry 8520 (Gemini) handset which appears slated for T-Mobile starting on August 5th. This entry level BlackBerry has the following features and specs:

• Full QWERTY keyboard
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g connectivity
• Optical trackpad navigation
• SMS, IM, and Social Networking support
• 2 megapixel camera with video capture
• microSD card slot
• Stereo Bluetooth
• 3.5 mm headset jack
• 256 MB flash memory
• 2.46 inch 320 x 240 resolution TFT LCD
• Video support includes DivX , DivX 5/6, XviD, MPEG4 Part 2 Simple
  Profile, H.263, H.264, WMV3
• Audio support includes 3gp, MP3, MIDI, AMR-NB, Professional
  AAC/AAC+/eAAC+, WMA9 (.wma/.asf), WMA9 PRO / WMA10
• 4 hour talk time and 17 day standby time

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Just a little reminder to all you T-Mobile customers. Starting today, current T-Mobile customers will be able to pre-order the upcoming Android-based myTouch 3G handset for a price of $199.99 along with a new two-year agreement (this assume you’re eligible for the $199.99 upgrade price of course). The pre-sale period for the T-Mobile myTouch 3G will last from today till July 25th with shipment expected before the nationwide launch of the handset which will take place on August 5th.

If you’re eliglble, then head over to http://www.t-mobilemytouch.com where you can place your pre-order now.

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Here’s another bit of T-Mobile related news. Fans of the somewhat outdated Windows Mobile-based T-Mobile Dash will be happy to hear that the new T-Mobile Dash 3G handset will be available starting on July 8th for a price of $169.99 along with a new two year contract.

Announced back on the 17th, the HTC designed Dash 3G features:

• Windows Mobile 6.1
• Glossy black finish with red accents
• Full QWERTY keyboard
• Trackball
• GPS
• Personal and business email
• 3G and 802.11 b/g connectivity

CNET has a review of the new Dash 3G here on their website and has this to say about the new handset:

“Long overdue, the T-Mobile Dash 3G is a worthy upgrade to its predecessor with the addition of such features as 3G support, GPS, and an updated design.”

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