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T-Mobile announces an increase of 579,000 accounts in Q1

Keron Calame — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:06:34 +0000

Its the end of the first quarter and most fortune 500-100 companies are releasing their quarterly report, T-Mobile have not exactly been doing so great and have been loosing customers over the past few years, but the carrier seems to have hit a stroke of luck as they are report some really good quarterly numbers, comparing to previous quarters.

T-Mobile is now announcing that the company saw a growth of 3,000 subscribers, which is somewhat better than the 349,000 subscribers they lost in Q4 2012. The those numbers are combined with customers from MVNO and other unbranded users, the carrier managed to achieve a net growth in their customer base of 579,000.

According to T-Mobile’s CEO, John Legere, “These results display positive momentum and the first positive branded growth in four years […] We have made material progress in stabilizing our branded business in Q1, which provides a solid foundation to build on with the new Un-carrier customer offers we launched last week across America.” The carrier has also reported that customer de-activations were at a 1.9% churn rate, which apparently is their best rate since 2008.

[Source: Ubergizmo]

Sprint Kyocera Echo Dual-Screen Android Smartphone

Keron Calame — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:40:45 +0000

Sprint has announced that they will be offering the new Kyocera Echo Android Smartphone to their subscribers. It is a dual-screen smartphone that runs the Android 2.2 Froyo OS and powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. It features a 3.2-inch touchscreen display with a 800×480 pixel resolution and you can slide the first display to reveal the second 3.2-inch touchscreen display with the same resolution and together they become a 4.7-inch diagonal screen with an 800×960 resolution. The Echo has two different modes: a single screen mode which enables the user to run applications just like any smartphone and a Simul-Task Mode which enables the user to run two applications concurrently, and independently, on each display.

Other specifications of the dual-screen smartphone includes a 5-Megapixel auto-focus and flash, it also comes with the ability to record 720p HD recording, Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR and WiFi 802.11b/g/n connectivity plus it will also be shipped with a 8GB microSD card. The Sprint Kyocera Echo Dual-Screen Android Smartphone will be offered by the carrier for a price of $199.99 when it is debuted by Sprint this Spring.

Source: LoopyCellphones