T-Mobile 3G Roll-Out Plans
T-Mobile is continuing their 3G network rollout. With rumors of an Android device coming this fall, it only makes sense to have the high speed network deployed in major urban areas before the device launches. This also means that the doors are more open for Danger/Microsoft to put out a 3G Sidekick. Want to know when your city will be enjoying 3G speeds? Here’s the list of rumored dates for when the network will go live in each city:
Baltimore - Aug 18th
Houston – Aug 19th
Minneapolis – Aug 20th
San Diego – Sept 15th
Los Angeles – Sept 16th
Phoenix – Sept 16th
Sacramento – Sept 17th
Portland – Sept 18th
Seattle – Sept 23rd
San Francisco – Sept 24th
Don’t see your city? Don’t worry, there are other cities that are slated for 3G by the end of 2008:
Atlanta
Birmingham
Chicago
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
Kansas City
Memphis
Miami
New England
Orlando
Philadelphia
Tampa
Washington, D.C.
August 20th, 2008 at 1:02 pm [ Quote ]
No New Orleans = Fail.
August 20th, 2008 at 1:03 pm [ Quote ]
No, New Orleans? = Fail
August 20th, 2008 at 1:51 pm [ Quote ]
Yay, Seattle!
August 20th, 2008 at 1:52 pm [ Quote ]
how can they leave out NYC?
August 20th, 2008 at 2:27 pm [ Quote ]
Yay 3G! yay miami!!
August 20th, 2008 at 3:11 pm [ Quote ]
Would it cover all Usa or big city only. I hope It would cover all usa and nj even in forest
August 20th, 2008 at 4:23 pm [ Quote ]
houston yay!!!!
August 20th, 2008 at 4:24 pm [ Quote ]
What exactly does 3G entail..?
August 20th, 2008 at 4:42 pm [ Quote ]
does that mean that the lx/2008 will be able to connect to the 3g network?
August 20th, 2008 at 5:04 pm [ Quote ]
any chance renos close enough to sacramento :[
August 20th, 2008 at 5:10 pm [ Quote ]
@danny
They already have 3G in NYC
@aj
I saw a picture of the specturm they bought that they will use for 3G and it covered almost all of the USA. They’re probably just getting the major cities first then all over. But I’m not sure if it’ll cover all of US
@amanda
People mostly want and use it for faster data. Like faster internet.
@please…
Unless the LX and Sidekick (2008) are 3G capable, which I don’t think they are, they won’t be able to use 3G. We’ll have to hopefully wait for the next Sidekick to be 3G capable
August 20th, 2008 at 5:12 pm [ Quote ]
Cant wait till HTC dream!
August 20th, 2008 at 7:05 pm [ Quote ]
like omg my kick wasnt working for like 5 hours i was mad lolz
August 20th, 2008 at 7:33 pm [ Quote ]
why no 3G in MN
August 20th, 2008 at 7:58 pm [ Quote ]
Im with “Boy”.. Is reno close enough to sacramento?! Or will it need to have its own?! Yo who am I askN anyway?! LoL
August 20th, 2008 at 8:14 pm [ Quote ]
can someone explain what this is.?
how will this benifit me.?
please explain this.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:28 pm [ Quote ]
umm unless you have a phone capable of 3G it wont benefit you and im guessing u have a sk so no use for u.
Umm ive been lookin up the dream….i feel this is a danger to sk since it looks like a sidekick with the left panel missing….if this thing rolls out i think sidekick is gonna go down for a while ;(
August 20th, 2008 at 10:35 pm [ Quote ]
im thinkin t-mobile will roll out a OTA for sidekicks to get 3G?? haha instead of the “G7″ its gonna say “3G”..oh man the OTA line starts here ———
August 21st, 2008 at 5:43 am [ Quote ]
What is the t-mobile 3g roll-out plan for????
Can you explain me what’s this about??
August 21st, 2008 at 6:45 am [ Quote ]
I am not sure but is 3G a high speed ? I am confused. I have SideKick LX since May 2008, I think.
August 21st, 2008 at 8:03 am [ Quote ]
The tmobile 3G plan rollout is to roll out a faster network to cities which phones connect to.. Such as the sidekicks they use the EDGE network which isn’t bad but isn’t fast enough if you want to download videos, music, and such.. 3G is a faster network connection than EDGE with much faster speeds which would allow for you to download videos and music ETC provided that Tmobile offers it in the catelog.. Even so the current sidekicks arnt 3G capable so we must wait untill the next sidekick which hopefully would be 3G capable
August 21st, 2008 at 9:14 am [ Quote ]
No ******* idiot, so u read much?
i hate when people ask the same stupid question over and over
THE LX AND 2008 DOESNT HAVE THE 3G HARDWARE GET IT IN YOUR THICK SKULL.
that is all.
August 21st, 2008 at 9:16 am [ Quote ]
Jay you’re ***.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:16 am [ Quote ]
i see ya 504!
but houston is on there so it’s all good, for me anyway LOL. I HAVE TO WAIT ANOTHER 2 WEEKS BEFORE I GET THIS PHONE! now THAT fails LOL.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:18 am [ Quote ]
hey maybe they can give a internet 3g update like they did with video for the LX
August 21st, 2008 at 10:31 am [ Quote ]
i’ve been looking at the dream too and I don’t like the hardware of it. Touch screens actually irk me and that screen swivels and you got this huge panel to the right LOL. I also like SK qwerty more than the Dream. It definitly has better software than the SK though, which will make it more pricey ofcourse. The sk I believe will still be here when the Dream comes out. T-Mobile like any other carrier needs price brakets for what the consumer wants. Like on Sprint, not everybody can afford the Instinct or Tilt but you can get the some of the same things (while it is downgraded) on the Rumor for cheaper. You have to sacrifice for the bucks I guess :).
August 21st, 2008 at 11:03 am [ Quote ]
Glad that 3G is rolling out for T-Mobile, hope by then the next gen Sidekick will have 3G.. AND hope HAWAII will be included in 2009.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:02 pm [ Quote ]
THAT SOUNDS ALL GO0D AND GREAT. BUT AT WHAT PRICE 400-500ISHH
WELL I DON’T CARE IMMA JUST CALL TM TO GET AN UPDATE FOR DA PHONE.
blackberry& Shadow II&the dream& a new sidekick&the wing II all running at 3g speed also half pricing all old sidekicks…do i see a takeover.
*i see it already tm introducing a sidekick running at 3g speeds and a whole **** load of features with a 2MP camera
apple in responds ………………nothing , maybe flooding da market with new cheaper ipods than a new cheaper 3g iphone…………..again MAYBE
****i wonder who gonna introduce video conference first. well the Japanese already got that well BEEN had that also since they making the sidekicks made they gonna implement it *******
August 21st, 2008 at 1:57 pm [ Quote ]
no 3g in boston??
August 21st, 2008 at 2:48 pm [ Quote ]
@nico,
Thanks!
August 21st, 2008 at 5:37 pm [ Quote ]
eman thank for answer me
August 21st, 2008 at 6:03 pm [ Quote ]
@eman,
Unless the LX and Sidekick (2008) are 3G capable, which I don’t think they are, they won’t be able to use 3G. We’ll have to hopefully wait for the next Sidekick to be 3G capable
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Really ?? It said 3G roll out plans for Sidekick 2008 and LX if I understand correct.
August 21st, 2008 at 6:26 pm [ Quote ]
I hope new sidekick would exact same sidekick lx but add 3 g that all
August 21st, 2008 at 7:29 pm [ Quote ]
It will add 3g to sidekick lx and sidekick 2008, definitely.
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:07 am [ Quote ]
where boston at?
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:40 pm [ Quote ]
yes true where is boston is one megacity and t-mobile is not thinking put 3g on this city they are SUCKS
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:53 pm [ Quote ]
Can’t wait for it to hit the AIR WAVES in ORLANDO!!!
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:06 pm [ Quote ]
boston = new england idiots
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:31 pm [ Quote ]
OK…..everyone keeps sayin this and that about the 2008 and the lx..It dosent have the hardware true…but if and ota rolls out would it really matter….
I DONT know now cuase evey one is not undertandin………once and for all will the LX AND THE 2008 WIll it have 3g?….I think no…cuase if it was for that the iphone will have not came out with a new one….WHAt to people think?…..matter of fact am I right??……….let me know.
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:32 pm [ Quote ]
OK…..everyone keeps sayin this and that about the 2008 and the lx..It dosent have the hardware true…but if and ota rolls out would it really matter….
I DONT know now cuase evey one is not undertandin………once and for all will the LX AND THE 2008 WIll it have 3g?….I think no…cuase if it was for that the iphone will have not came out with a new one….WHAt to people think?…..matter of fact am I right??……….let me know.
August 24th, 2008 at 11:56 am [ Quote ]
Thatz Wutz Up Sep 16 LA! Im Diggin The 3g Rollout! But tmobile Still Need 2 Work On GPS And Createing A Music And Video Catalog! Tmobile Would Make So Much Money If Those 2 Catagories In The Catalog! Who Agrees Wit Me On This 1? Yo Hiptopadmin Do U Have An Aim?
August 25th, 2008 at 7:19 pm [ Quote ]
ooooo. . . this could b the start of somethin good for tmobile.
and yayyy!!! 3g for atlanta.
actually my signal went out from like 12 at midnight til like the next day.
i was tooooooo mad.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:07 pm [ Quote ]
3G for T-Mobile sounds like plan bout damn time they step they game Up now we can watch Movies online and etc I CAN DIG IT!!!!!!!!!!
August 30th, 2008 at 4:22 pm [ Quote ]
@Bearmon
NO SIDEKICK IS 3G CAPABLE.
September 1st, 2008 at 6:35 pm [ Quote ]
The Hiptop Web browser requests pages through a proxy running on Danger’s servers (similarly to Opera Mini and Deepfish). The proxy does most of the heavy work of resizing images, reformatting tables, and cutting out content the Hiptop browser doesn’t support, or that is switched off via user controlled selections in the menu (such as Flash animations, videos, music, etc). The browser itself supports XHTML 1.0, CSS 1 with some CSS 2, JavaScript and CSS 3 (Sidekick 3, Slide, Sidekick LX only). Sidekicks are on EDGE networks and there are no plans for upgrading Hiptop web browser to 3G since most of the hardwork is done by the host server.
from wikipedia.
I also emailed Danger to see what they have to say. Mostly it’s up to Danger if they want to follow behind T-mobile’s upgrade to the 3G network, so I say it’s possible for the LX to be on this network.
All you’re doing is switching the network in which you connect to the internet, it would be like, let me think of a good example, viewing the internet with firefox instead of IE7. or upgrading from dialup to broadband. still gets you to the same site, just faster loadtime.
there maybe a patch for a future internet web browser, and whatever is needed
September 5th, 2008 at 7:35 pm [ Quote ]
where the F*** is NEW YORK CITY?!!!!!!!!! IT SHOULD BE AT TOP OF THE LIST
September 18th, 2008 at 4:43 pm [ Quote ]
If they make a new sidekick hopely it’s like the lx, but lighter. I love the mood lights. And maybe a 3 or 2m camera with flash. 3g would be a big upgrade to the sidekick. I really don’t care for touch screens they getting annoying real fast! Hope the 3g comes to Rockford, IL! Cross your fingers.
September 20th, 2008 at 12:20 am [ Quote ]
It might be ota update. Just like the lx got video ota update. Who knows whats gonna happen. Oh yeah i forgot. Yay memphis :•)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:41 am [ Quote ]
new orleans??????
September 30th, 2008 at 1:39 pm [ Quote ]
I hope they get the 3g for the sidekick slide. or atleast even being able to watch youtube or something..
because watching youtube at school will totally rock!