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Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

We can think of about fifteen plain-vanilla EDGE flips from Samsung that we’d expect T-Mobile to launch ahead of something like this, but you’re definitely not plan to see us complaining. TmoNews is claiming that the guys and gals in pink magenta have an ace up their collective sleeve in the form of Samsung’s F480 Tocco — or really, an Americanized version of it dubbed T919. Naturally, the US version goes through the usual dilution, losing the front-facing cam — but on the upside, it manages to hang on to the really important stuff like a 3G radio (AWS, we’d assume), GPS, and 5 megapixel cam. There’s no telling when it’ll be on sale, but if we know our carriers — and we think we know ‘em pretty well — they’ll want it on store shelves in plenty of time for the holiday season.

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Tags: Ace, Dilution, Flips, Gals, Gps, Gsm Edge, Holiday Season, Hsdpa, Launch, Mobile Gsm, Mobile Usa, Nbsp, Plenty Of Time, Samsung, Samsung Gsm, Samsung Mobile, Store Shelves, Stuff, T Mobile, Tocco

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

We can think of about fifteen plain-vanilla EDGE flips from Samsung that we’d expect T-Mobile to launch ahead of something like this, but you’re definitely not plan to see us complaining. TmoNews is claiming that the guys and gals in pink magenta have an ace up their collective sleeve in the form of Samsung’s F480 Tocco — or really, an Americanized version of it dubbed T919. Naturally, the US version goes through the usual dilution, losing the front-facing cam — but on the upside, it manages to hang on to the really important stuff like a 3G radio (AWS, we’d assume), GPS, and 5 megapixel cam. There’s no telling when it’ll be on sale, but if we know our carriers — and we think we know ‘em pretty well — they’ll want it on store shelves in plenty of time for the holiday season.

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Filed under: Culture, Apple

Of course, it all seems so obvious at this time! How did we not interpret El Jobso’s true meaning of the iPhone kill-switch — it actually kills you. We have noted iPhone expert Stephen Colbert to thank not just for this brilliant deduction, but also for sticking up for the lot of us and giving the iPhone 3G a cold staredown — but not before declaring, “I knew I should have gotten a Zune! They can’t kill me… or do anything else.” Zing! Clip after the break (iPhone at 5:45).

[Thanks, Matt]

Continue reading Colbert’s top threat of the week: killer iPhones. Solution: buy a Zune.

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Tags: 3g, Apple, Break, Brilliant Deduction, Culture, Expert, iphone, Kill Switch, Lot, Nbsp, Staredown, Stephen Colbert, True Meaning, Zing, Zune