T-Mobile customers who use Android phones can get a little something extra from the new Google Music Store. T-Mobile is offering free songs every week between now and the end of the year.
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Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
T-Mobile launched a service this week that lets Facebook users make voice calls to other Facebook users or conventional telephones. Calls from Facebook to other users or telephones in the U.S., Canada or Puerto Rico are free. Voice messages can be left as Facebook status updates on a friend’s page. You can see what this status update looks like in the screenshot to the left. I left the voice message using the Bobsled app on an iPad.
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Graphic courtesy of Wired.
Do you know how long mobile phone service providers keep records about which cell tower you used? Or, text messages? Or, call detail records? Wired took a look at a photo copy of a U.S. Department of Justice summary table titled “Retention Periods of Major Cellular Service Providers” that provides the specifics.
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Smozzy, new Android app launched with the help of T-Mobile’s unlimited messaging plan, helps users surf the web for free. Smozzy intelligently encapsulates the communication between the browser and the web as SMS and MMS, thereby enabling users who do not have unlimited data plans to use their Android devices to surf around. The app is currently in beta, and has been tested only on Nexus S and HTC G2 devices.
Electronista doesn’t have to work too hard to convince me that mobile phone companies’ wireless data plans charge way too much for people who do not even come close to their plan’s monthly data quota. Here, they report on a study by Validas.
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Direct Carrier Billing lets you charge digital purchases to your phone bill. These digital products include: Digital games, gaming and social networking credits, music and videos. This service has been available to T-Mobile customers who use Android phones since 2009. However, Direct Carrier Billing can now be used by T-Mobile customers from any web browser (desktop, netbook, tablet or smartphone).
Direct Carrier Billing will use billing services from BilltoMobile, Boku, OpenMarket, Payfone, and Zong. Purchases will require a two-step authentication (not just a password). The service will be available later this month (August 2011).
T-Mobile USA to Extend Direct Carrier Billing to Digital Content and Services
Via CNET: T-Mobile wades into mobile payments
T-Mobile doesn’t carry the iPhone. Its soon-to-be-owner does, however. And, it was relatively simple to take an iPhone prior to the iPhone 4, jailbreak it, unlock it and throw in a T-Mobile SIM card use on T-mobile’s network. The result is not ideal since while voice T-Mobile and AT&T use different 3G frequencies, only slower EDGE data connections can be used when on T-Mobile. The iPhone 4 with its microSIM presents even more of a challenge since the additional step of shaving T-Mobile’s conventional sized SIM card down to a microSIM form factor.
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T-Mobile USA has released an Android app called More for Me, to aggregate daily deals based on location from different sources including the established social couponing company LivingSocial. The app feature discount deals across a variety of categories, including health and beauty services, outdoor activities, clothing offers, concert tickets and a lot more.
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The success of deal sites like Groupon and LivingSocial apparently interested T-Mobile so much that they created their own service and Android app.
T-Mobile launches More for Me daily-deal app for Android (LA Times)
T-Mobile’s More for Me Android app is available in the Android Market and can be downloaded by people not using a T-Mobile Android Phone.
More for Me (Android Market)
T-Mobile More for Me is a nationwide aggregation service that offers consumers the best in daily deals. The service is completely free and enables consumers to get the best and timely offers, discounts and deals from some of the biggest names in daily deals tailored to their preferences, location and interests.
The LA Times notes that this “aggregation service” involves other deal sites such as LivingSocial (but not Groupon).
electronisa.com reports on a potentially interesting development for T-Mobile customers in the U.S.
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