A Good Week For Handsets (and it's only Wednesday!)

T-Mobile is starting to make good on their promise to bring 10 new HotSpot @Home handsets to market in 2008. Heck, two hit the rumor mill this week alone!

First is the new Samsung T339, a feature-rich mid-tier handset which continues to push Samsung into the upper echelons of DMH supplier.

Second, a rumor broke on HTC’s Shadow II (shown), the appropriately named follow-on to the Shadow currently available from T-Mobile. This is notable for being the first Windows Mobile device with UMA available from T-Mobile.

All this happens in the same week that the UMA-enabled Blackberry Pearl shows up on the shelves of T-Mobile stores nationwide.

T-Mobile is definitely on a roll.

T-Mo gets the 8820... Finally

The Blackberry 8820, announced about 6 mos ago for AT&T, has finally been released for T-Mobile's HotSpot @Home service. All we can say is: FINALLY!

And in the category of 'what have you done for me lately', we ask "When do we get the UMA-enabled Pearl?"

Orange Hits 9 with UMA-enabled Pearl

Quietly over the holiday break, Orange added the UMA-enabled RIM Pearl (8120) to its line-up of UMA-enabled handsets.

This brings Orange to 9 devices available for the Unik service. With devices from Samsung, Nokia, LG, Sagem and RIM, Orange continues to push handset manufacturers to support Wi-Fi and UMA technology.

2008 will bring a flood of new devices with an eye towards 3G-based Wi-Fi-enabled handsets with UMA.

Rumor: Blackberry Pearl

As reported on MobileBurn, the FCC web site recently published information about a new Blackberry Pearl (8120).

In keeping up with RIM CEO’s Rick Balsillie’s comment that there is “unbelievable” potential in Wi-Fi, this new handset is reported to have UMA/Wi-Fi capability as well.