T-Mobile to focus on Android, HSPA+, and tablets at CES

By on Dec 23, 2010 at 6:21 PM
General December 23, 2010

According to a report filed by Mobilized, the nation’s fourth largest carrier, T-Mobile, plans on focusing its CES efforts on HSPA+, Android, and tablet computers. Mark McDiarmid, T-Mo’s senior director of engineering, sat down with the blog and noted that his company will outline plans for its ultra-fast 42Mbps HSPA+ network at the show. Mr. McDiarmid also mentioned that devices equipped with HSPA+ radios capable of taking advantage of the higher speeds would come to market sometime next year. A post-interview email expanded on the carrier’s CES plans:

T-Mobile is big on Android, big on faster 4G speeds and big on 4G devices including tablets. We will continue to drive innovation on these fronts in 2011.

We wouldn’t be adverse to hearing about some 42Mbps, HSPA+ handsets and tablets… even if we do have to listen to them be referred to as 4G.

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  • Mralistair

    4G is old news now! Let’s start the race to 5G!!!

    • ElChiztro

      in about 20 years

    • Norm

      When Tmobile finally gets LTE or Wimax they will call it 5G or 6G because they are still so far behind. Losers.

      • Anonymous

        @Norm, i am with this.. *smile*

  • ElChiztro

    hmmm….what about iphone 4??

    • Anonymous

      Why would they bother? What is the remaining potential market for iPhone buyers in the U.S? Most likely the consumers who want an iPhone but haven’t gotten one because of AT&T are waiting for Verizon, not T-Mobile.

      • ElChiztro

        whoever gets it first other than at&t. besides i think 95% of suscribers on tmobile would buy an iphone 4, but who am i but just a wishful dreamer?

      • Stephen

        “besides i think 95% of suscribers on tmobile would buy an iphone 4″

        You’re an idiot.

        Defective antenna design
        Crappy/gimped multi-tasking
        Outdated OS
        Locked down by a control freak CEO that treats its customers like children

        No wonder Android is outselling Apple piece of shit iPhones 2:1 worldwide now.

      • Norm

        Stephen,

        You got the same talking point sheet I have. I love how VZW and DROID gets those so easy to use for us!

  • I want the Iphone on TMO

    T Mobile has a bunch of mediocre phones, mediocre support, and mediocre 4G connectivity. They used to have great customer service but as of late have been alienating long time customers in an attempt to gain new customers. Sound familiar?

    • ElChiztro

      no. who is it?

    • Drew

      ….And you are full of shit. I don’t think that the G2, HTC HD2 and HD7, MT4G, Dell Venue Pro, Samsung Vibrant, carrier support for the Nexus One and Nexus S are mediocre. Not to mention the LG Optimus 2X that’s heading to Magenta, you know Tegra 2 dual core?? Yeah, that’s sounds really mediocre…

      • Really,No 4g?

        Do they have it yet A hole (I can be sub human too).

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIBCEYMFQDVMDL56K2BVV6ZHII OG

    Why are you people so negative? T-mobile is this, T-Mobile is that…fake 4G this and mediocre that… First and foremost T-Mobile has the TWO *count em* TWO highest performing Android devices available in the MyTouch 4G and the HTC G2. These devices carry the latest processors and are both 4G enabled. Whether you want to call T-Mobile’s 4G fake, real or whatever matters little, because at the end of the day what do we care about? Speed! That’s right, if T-Mobile has the capacity to max out their existing networks in order to obtain comparable speeds to LTE, WiMax or whatever SO F’N WHAT! And to you bozos who don’t live in 3G or 4G areas, SUX FOR YOU because I do! Ha! It doesn’t suck living in Washington DC where T-Mobile signals are better than AT&T, Sprint and are equal to, if not better than Verizon. Learn your facts before you start spouting off a bunch of garbage.

    • Really,No 4g?

      Mobiledia Editors’ Choice Phones
      Google Nexus S 1. Google Nexus S
      HTC HD7 2. HTC HD7
      Motorola Droid 2 3. Motorola Droid 2
      Samsung Epic 4G 4. Samsung Epic 4G
      Motorola Droid X 5. Motorola Droid X
      Apple iPhone 4 6. Apple iPhone 4
      T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Slide 7. T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Slide
      Nokia N8 8. Nokia N8
      HTC Droid Incredible 9. HTC Droid Incredible
      HTC Evo 4G 10. HTC Evo 4G

  • ryan

    WiMax is an evolved 3g network as well. LTE a similar technology to WiMax too. The ITU already changed their standards to include evolved 3g to be considered 4g. Granted you can’t enjoy the service in a building, the technology is there for TMO.

  • Whatever

    I have a G2 in a city with T-Mobile’s HSPA+. When my I run a speed test on the connection, it never out performs my friend’s 3G on T-Mobile. Seems like just marketing hype right now, with all speed increases being only theoretical.

    I am pissed at T-Mobile for charging their Android customers twice as much for international texting. Everyone who has texting included in their voice plan gets it for $10/month. But because T-Mobile forces Android users to bundle their texting with their Android data package, we have to spend $20/month for international texting plans. Way to concentrate on your Android customers!

  • Anonymous

    Way to go T-Mobile. All of you guys complaining that T-Mo’s HSPA+ isn’t 4G need to get over it, seriously. They’re already just as fast, if not faster, than the competition so why not go with the term. Now that they’re going to be lighting up 42mbps T-Mo is going to be even faster. You guys are also forgetting that LTE and Wi-MAX aren’t 4G either. LTE Advanced and Wi-MAX 2 are. With that said it doesn’t matter to me if the carrier decides to call it 500G as long as they bring good speeds to my device im fine, and i know a lot of people are with me on that one as well.

  • http://twitter.com/Alex_YC Alex Chernogaev

    Fine by me. It’s faster here in Brooklyn than my crappy Verizon DSL (no FiOS here yet). I get 4.5-5.5 mbps download speeds on my Samsung Vibrant. Hopefully they keep adding bandwidth so I can get closer to the phone’s 7.2 limit.

  • Anonymous

    You know, I don’t know about this. First of all we know that LTE is the (Mitsubishi) evolution path for HSPA +; but at the same time we also know that no current network is considered “4G,” at the moment even though all these carriers are marketing their new networks as such. Ok, so throwing out WiMax, and just focusing on HSPA plus vs. LTE (since Verizon has rolled out the service here in the states). From what I have read the biggest advance to LTE at this point is latency, I also read that as HSPA plus advances you will start to see “cross talk” between the carriers (someone correct me if I’m wrong, or maybe better explain it). Also since Verizon has rolled out LTE over 700 Mhz you should have better in building service as they expland and add more eNode B’s.
    In my experience with all three so called 4G networks when I was in a good LTE/HSPA +/WiMax areas, LTE seemed to out perform both HSPA +, and WiMax (with WiMax bring up the rear). But who’s to say that will happen when then network starts to have more traffic.
    The problem I see with LTE is 3gpp, allowing HSPA to continue to advance, I feel they should have cut it off before HSPA plus, forcing carriers to upgrade LTE; because here is the deal HSPA plus is hells of cheaper to deploy if you already have a GSM/WCDMA network then LTE, which requires allot of new equipment.
    So if other carriers take their sweet time deploying LTE, then Verizon is going to be in the same boat as they were in with CDMA when it came to cell phone selection.
    Also who knows what the next 10 years will bring in Wireless. You never know people may get satisfied with Wireless speeds at some point; also stock holders are going to want more returns on there investments, and it’s not very profitable to keep upgrading your network every time you turn around. So every is the question what if most GSM/WCDMA carriers don’t upgrade their networks to LTE, but instead just max out HSPA plus. What happens to Verizon? Will LTE be the next CDMA?

  • Anonymous

    Andrew needs to get over his issues with T-Mobile calling HSPA + 4G. Let’s see if he removes my comment again for the 3rd time for calling him out.

    If he is going to live in the past and still refer to T-Mobile’s technology path as HSPA + due to some (already outdated and irrelevant) ITU ideologue then he needs to read the ITU’s recent announcement.

  • Anonymous

    To bad tmobile only runs 20mbps backhaul to the majority of their base stations.

    • Guest Net

      That was the old deployment. New fiber ethernet is much higher than that.

  • http://twitter.com/TZARvor TZAR v.o.r

    Hope HTC will get some of those radios, 42 Mbps with LGs 4″ 700 nitt ips screens. I hope something juicy is coming.

  • Sam

    In other news, the sky continues to be blue and I’m still a raging alcoholic.

  • Ballers31

    Wow this guy is such a hater. Point blank tmo out performs everybody in speeds so let them call it 4G. I work at radioshack and the G2 outperforms the evo in speed all the time and its so called 4G.

  • going_home

    Tablets schmablets !
    I could care less about tablets, I will never own one.
    I want a superphone thats cutting edge and 100% like no phone ever released !
    And dont talk to me about the Nexus S, I had one for 7 disappointing days
    before I returned it to Best Buy.
    Who was the one that thought it was a good idea to not have a track pad ?
    No way to move the curser is excruciating !
    That and the NS is not much of an upgrade from the N1.
    :-(

  • Marc

    The word you’re looking for, editors, is “averse,” not “adverse.” Ugh.

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