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Huawei are the latest to introduce a new mini phone at MWC 2010 with this, the T-Mobile Pulse Mini. Featuring much of the same features as the standard T-Mobile Pulse, including a 3.2 megapixel camera, aGPS, WiFi and all the rest, the Pulse Mini goes one better by adding Android 2.1 to the mix.

Its screen is only 2.8″ and you’d never exactly call the Pulse Mini, but with its diminuitive proportions, you can’t deny its cuteness.

Even cuter is the expected price – just £99 on Pay As You Go when it’s released in the UK in April.

[Source: Pocket-Lint]

T-Mobile, my favourite mobile network (I’ll explain why tomorrow), have just released two new offers, which mix laptops and mobile data perfectly. If you need to use the Web wherever you are at a moment’s notice, then check out how T-Mobile can help:

• A brand new Samsung N130 laptop + unlimited texts + 3GB of data. Buy it now for just £25 per month
• A brand new Compaq Presario CQ61-305SA Notebook + free Skype calls + 5GB of data. Buy it now for just £30 per month

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I use a Samsung N130, and it’s transformed my life.

• For work, it’s perfect – it doesn’t matter where I need to go, the laptop’s so light and responsive, I can carry it without noticing it and just fire it up at a moment’s notice.
• At home, it’s just there whenever I need it. It’s so light, I can just dip in and out of it whenever I need to, while watching the telly or the BBC’s iPlayer.
• For blogging, it’s a gift! Starbucks is my new office thanks to my Samsung :)

Try it yourself. Netbooks like these are the perfect blend of lightness and always-on connectivity, and before you know it you’ll be using the Web in ways you never thought possible. Get one for yourself for Christmas, or give one to your partner – it’ll keep them quiet during the footy at the very least!

You may recall that I’m looking to upgrade my phone from my Nokia E90 to a T-Mobile G1 (can’t resist Android’s siren call!) However, because I was on T-Mobile’s old Just Sim tariff (old Sim-only deal that cost me £30 a month), transferring to a new contract wasn’t as easy as I’d hoped. It turns out that if I want to move from a T-Mobile Sim-only deal to a new T-Mobile contract, I can’t keep my old phone number!

If I was on any other deal on any other network, then I could port the number over seamlessly. If I was on any other contract with T-Mobile, it wouldn’t be a problem, either. However, because I’m already a customer of T-Mobile, I can’t port the number over across tariffs, as porting only works across different networks. And for whatever reason, T-Mobile’s systems aren’t equipped to deal with people who want to switch from Sim-only to contract and keep the same number!

More new Android devices are just around the corner. General Mobile (who?!) will be showing off the General Mobile DLST1 Android phone at MWC 2009 in a couple of weeks, while T-Mobile’s Senior VP for Engineering and Operations, Neville Ray, has told Fierce Wireless that the company will be releasing more Android phones to succeed the G1 later in 2009.

As there’s no more details from T-Mobile on their new G2 (assuming that’s what it’ll be called), we’ll stick with the General Mobile Android phone, which, if it’s released as promised, looks like it’ll give the HTC-based G1 a good run for its money.

More details after the jump.

PDA phone, smartphone, smart PDA phone – whatever you call it, PDA phones have been the talk of the mobile phone world throughout 2008. There are now tonnes of different PDA phones on the market, and with a bewildering array of phones to choose from, finding the right one has become a nightmare!

To help you through the PDA phone maze, we’ve compiled a little guide to the best smartphones to buy for Christmas 2008.

With the T-Mobile G1 Android phone just days away from launch (22nd October in the US, 30th October in the UK), opinions are already been expressed among the blogosphere.

Overall reviews seem to be favourable, particularly given the G1 is the first of the first generation of Android phones, but there are two key weaknesses that might effectively limit the G1’s appeal: lack of video features, and, ironically, over-reliance on Google.

So should you buy a T-Mobile G1? Read on after the jump…

At last, the world’s first Google Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, is finally here! The blogosphere is far more upbeat about the G1 than it expected to be, and personally, I think it’s fantastic!

I know exactly what I want from a smartphone, having had a Nokia E90 for the past year and having tested several Windows Mobile devices, and the G1 seems to have got everything right.

So without further ado, let’s see what exactly the T-Mobile G1 brings to the smartphone world.

The world’s first Google Android phone, expected to be called the T-Mobile G1, will be officially launched tomorrow, and the blogosphere is buzzing with expectation. In anticipation of tomorrow’s announcement, here’s a list of 21 things we expect from the new Google Android phone…

Here at last are leaked pictures of the world’s first Google Android phone, the T-Mobile G1. Actually, it’s an HTC Dream rebadged as the G1, but T-Mobile will be the network offering it first, so the G1 it is.

Being a smartphone, it could either be pure touchscreen, like the iPhone, or come complete with a physical keyboard like the majority of Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 smartphones. Thankfully, it chose the latter, and has a slide out keyboard that will be familiar to many users of other HTC devices.

Better still, the keyboard isn’t just a full QWERTY keyboard, it’s also got dedicated number keys as well as two ALT buttons for selecting the punctuation symbols that are doubled up on some character keys. As I found out with my MWg Zinc II review, you need two ALT buttons, as just having one leaves you trying to do finger contortions that nobody over the age of 14 can manage!

More details and pics after the jump

A few months ago, my Nokia E90 stopped being able to connect to any Web page that required a secure connection (i.e. SSL). At first, I didn’t think all that much about it, but it very quickly started to annoy me. I couldn’t access my email, RSS reader, or any of a million different Web sites that I hadn’t even realised required SSL!

I updated the firmware to the very latest version, but to no effect. So I checked the mobile forums, where I found that a number of other users had been having the same problem with their Nokia phones – and not just the E90. It was a variety of Nokia phones that were having problems, but the one common theme was that they were all on the UK T-Mobile network, and they all used to work fine.

Then one day, without warning,and without doing anything to their phones, the Nokia’s simply stopped being able to establish SSL connections.

Every other network worked just fine – it was only Nokia phones on T-Mobile’s network that was the problem.

At the 3G.co.uk forum, one member speculated that this was a deliberate move by T-Mobile because they’d fallen out with Nokia over its Ovi music service.

This can’t really be the case, can it? The video above shows the problem. I’ve now finally got through to a teccie at T-Mobile and will be providing evidence of the problem over the coming days, with an assurance that they will sort it out for me. They’d better, as my contract runs out in November, and I’m not prepared to sign up with a network that only half works!

Stay tuned for more details on this saga.