In an interview with FierceWireless, T-Mobile USA’s senior VP of engineering and operations (and newly-minted chairman of 3G Americas’ board) Neville Ray has slipped a couple juicy morsels in the process of talking up his carrier’s ongoing 3G rollout. Besides mentioning that T-Mobile wants to double its 3G footprint in 2009, Ray says that “we will be launching more G series phones and other products… in the coming weeks and months.” If we had to guess, this probably (hopefully) has something to do with that HTC Sapphire we’ve seen floating around lately. What’s more, you’ll see T-Mobile start to ramp up peripheral support this year — gotta monetize that multi-billion-dollar network somehow — with a modem launch. All told, these guys still have a long way to catch up in the 3G race with Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint — but if you want bleeding-edge Android stuff, looks like they’ll continue to be your best bet for a while.

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AP – Watch an advertisement on a video screen in a mall, health club or grocery store and there’s a slim

AP – Congress is going to take another crack at delaying the analog TV shutdown by four months.

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You’ve had a nice run, 2G, but the time has come to start looking beyond to bigger, better and (most importantly) faster things. With LTE just over the horizon, NTT DoCoMo is proactively announcing the phase out of its mova and DoPa 2G services. The 2G mova services encompass car phone and Pre-Call prepaid — which got their roots in March of 1993 — while the 2G DoPa packet communication service sprouted up four years after that. Both of these longtime favorites will be disconnected at the close of 2012, with the company noting that “associated services and related billing plans will also be terminated at the same time.” Anyone still relying on this stuff will be contacted sometime over the next three years to ensure that they aren’t shocked and surprised when December 2012 arrives, and they’ll be encouraged to make the not-at-all-painful shift to FOMA 3G services. It’s better in the fast lane, we promise.

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NTT DoCoMo announces farewell to mova and DoPa 2G services originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/Another_Pre_hands_on_video_with_Palm_s_VP_of_design’; Man, we can’t get enough Peter Skillman — check out this 25-minute Pre hands-on demo Palm’s VP of design did at CES. Sure, there’s some overlap with what we saw Matias Duarte demo during the announcement and the shorter Skillman video we saw yesterday, but there’s also some stuff that slipped under the radar — like the Touchstone’s “gecko feet” in action at 1:48, a kinda-sorta unboxing at 2:29, an impressive email / IM / SMS multitasking demo at 12:10, and a peek at the video player at 20:09. Skillman also confirms that the Pre will do MMS, but video recording capability and Touchstone pricing remain a mystery. There are also some friendly iPhone and BlackBerry comparisons — amusingly, he asks for a phone from the audience so he can show off the comparatively higher quality of the Pre’s screen and gets a little flustered when handed the super-high-density BlackBerry Bold. Whoops! Overall, though, it’s interesting to see Petey Skills basically just use the Pre for so long — he throws quite a bit at it, and it never seems to hiccup or slow down, which is definitely encouraging. Video after the break.

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