T-Mobiles
T-Mobile is a German mobile phone network provider owned by Deutsche Telecom operating GSM networks in Europe and the USA. T-Mobile are Germany’s largest mobile phone network provider with over 36 million customers in January 2008. Deutsche Telecom have been going since 1989 and have over 36,000 employees, their head office is based in Bonn Germany.
T-Mobile phones UK were previously known as Mercury one2one who were a GSM mobile phone network provider operated by Mercury Communications who have now ceased trading. In September 1993 one2one launched the first GSM 1800 network in the world. In 1999 One2one were bought out by Deutsche Telecom in 1999 and re-named T-Mobile phones in 2002.
T-Mobile phones off their customers pay monthly contract phones and pay as you go T-Mobile phones. Their pay monthly contracts include a number of free minutes and texts with the customer paying a set monthly charge, if the customer goes over the allowance they will have to pay for the calls and are billed each month. The contract lengths range between 12 and 24 months. You can get a free mobile phone and in some cases a free gift with your contract like an LCD TV, Nintendo Wii or an Xbox 360. With the pay as you go phones you will need to pay for your mobile phone and top your phone up as and when needed, you can get free minutes and calls depending on how much you top up and what offers they have on at the time.
T-Mobile phones released their first handset in June 2006, they called it the T-Mobile Sidekick 3, it’s quite a basic handset but it was their first T-Mobile phones to be released. The Sidekick 3 had a 2.6 inch TFT display screen, QWERTY keyboard, MP3 ringtones, 1.3 mega-pixel camera with LED flash, Email and WAP 2.0/xHTML and HTML web browsers to name just a few of the main features. T-Mobile phones have improved since then, one of the latest T-Mobile phones to be announced is the myTouch 4G, it comes with a 3.8 inch TFT capacitive touchscreen, Swype text input, storage for up to 32 gigabytes, WiFi and 3G HSDPA/HSUPA connectivity, Google Android 2.2 OS, GPS navigation, Google maps and YouTube integration. It is a pretty impressive T-mobile phone considering they are more known for being a mobile phone network provider.
We think T-Mobile phones have a very promising future ahead of them in the mobile phone manufacturing industry but it will take a lot of hard work to get to the top five with competition from the likes of HTC, Samsung, and the world leader Nokia.
