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T-Mobile myTouch 3G pre-orders taken now: $199.99

08 July 2009 by Chris Davies


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Remember the T-Mobile myTouch 3G?  The phone we were excited about before spotting the HTC Hero?  Well, T-Mobile have launched their pre-order site for the upcoming smartphone, reminding us that there’s a little over 27 days until it’ll arrive in stores. 

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Existing T-Mobile customers can also choose to pre-order the myTouch 3G, priced at $199.99 with a new two-year contract, up until July 28th.  Be warned, though, there’s our old friend the T-Mobile $18 upgrade fee, and up to $200 early-cancellation fees (though it’s not clear whether that refers solely to the new contract or to any existing one you’re locked into).

The myTouch 3G itself – also known as the HTC Magic - has a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen, Android OS 1.5 Cupcake, HSPA and WiFi.  You can find our review of the smartphone in its Vodafone Europe guise here.

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  1. can you believe this phone is $500 out right? the g1 was only $400 when it first came out and they have practically the same specs...
  2. $500? they can kiss my @$$


    Just logged into tmo- w/2 year contract: $499 w/o 2 year contract: $499

    yup, make that 2 kisses
  3. I convinced my mom to order one, so I'll get to mess around with it when she gets it.
  4. If you're on month to month currently, the price with a 2 year contract is $199.99.

    Also, there was another post which said that the poster contacted T Mobile, and was told the full price is $399.99, not $499.99, and that it's a mistake on the website.

    If anyone is really interested in full price, you should obviously check with a T Mobile rep.
  5. Yeah, mine said $399.00 w/ 2yr contract.
  6. easy pass.

    waitin on hero

    this phone is a joke to me :/
  7. What if the hero doesnt come to t-mobile? Can you handle edge only?
  8. I will wait for the Hero, and Tmo better get it or else, I'm jumping ship. I hear ATT passed FCC for it, so who knows.

    I am all about the device, no carrier loyalty in this camp


    With 2 year extension Without 2 year extension
    Upgrade Price: $499.99 $499.99
    Online Discount: $-100.00 $0.00
    $ 399.99 $ 499.99
  9. I was going for this phone but big time deal breaker on the 192mb RAM !!! just like Johnny said, easy pass !!!!!
  10. Are you serious!? 399! WHere did the 199 upgrade price go? I would buy a Hero for 600 or N97 before I shell out 399 for this.
  11. yeah, the ram on board is a joke

    the price alone is an even bigger joke! lol
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by JohnnyLicious View Post
    easy pass.

    waitin on hero

    this phone is a joke to me :/
    a joke to you? this is a joke to anyone who knows anything about phones...
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by hondamx525 View Post
    What if the hero doesnt come to t-mobile? Can you handle edge only?
    its not
    http://www.androidauthority.com/inde...ffer-htc-hero/

    so we dont have a choice... but it still has wifi and the lack of 3g would make the battery last longer..
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by JetsG1 View Post
    Are you serious!? 399! WHere did the 199 upgrade price go? I would buy a Hero for 600 or N97 before I shell out 399 for this.
    its $199 if your contract is up... if not then you sign a new 2 yr contract and pay a modified price... stupid i know but atleast you can get the hero for under $650...
  13. I`m buying a Hero, I must have read it wrong - The email I got offered it to me for 199 with extension.
    WHeres that darn group buy? Lets get it rollin ladies!
  14. Wow $199, what a rip off, its has the same hardware as the G1 and is missing a keyboard, and it cost $20 more.. Also now that the iPhone 3g is only $99, why would anybody chose this over the iPhone.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DreamcastDC View Post
    Wow $199, what a rip off, its has the same hardware as the G1 and is missing a keyboard, and it cost $20 more.. Also now that the iPhone 3g is only $99, why would anybody chose this over the iPhone.
    um... i really dont know...
  16. i cant believe t-mo adds two years to you contract. Sprint might be shady as hell but when you upgrade, your 2 year contract renews it doesnt add on! so if you renew today your new 2 year contract starts today and is only 2 years, plus sprint gives you the full $150 upgrade every year not every 2 years
  17. yup, it's shady. which is why I'm STRONGLY considering after this contract, I'm not doing contracts any freaking more.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by konzern View Post
    i cant believe t-mo adds two years to you contract. Sprint might be shady as hell but when you upgrade, your 2 year contract renews it doesnt add on! so if you renew today your new 2 year contract starts today and is only 2 years, plus sprint gives you the full $150 upgrade every year not every 2 years
    tmo works the same way... your 2 years start when you buy the phone...
  19. well how come i have heard ppl say "i upgraded my phone so i added another 2 years to my contract so my contract is up to 10 years"
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by konzern View Post
    well how come i have heard ppl say "i upgraded my phone so i added another 2 years to my contract so my contract is up to 10 years"
    ahahaha i have never heard that... but what they do is charge you more for the phone upfront... like right now my contract is up in 2011. so i can "upgrade" and a higher price and my contract would end 2 years from the day i buy it...
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by LazyGenius View Post
    ahahaha i have never heard that... but what they do is charge you more for the phone upfront... like right now my contract is up in 2011. so i can "upgrade" and a higher price and my contract would end 2 years from the day i buy it...
    yep, and how much does a person save if say, they're on year 1 out of 2 and then upgrade? $40? lol
  22. ok maybe your right, but i have heard THAT before (the 10 year thing) and i was like WTF

    anyways you gotta admit that sprints $150 towards an upgrade EVERY YEAR is awesome!
  23. yeah that is pretty neat......hell that may even seduce me over to them LOL
  24. G1 is what made me stay with T-Mobile...Went from Sidekick LX to Tmo g1...no other carrier really has phones+plans that interest me...I'm not a big fan of blackberries..Wanted a hardware qwerty board...Not a lot in the market for that. :/ Oh, and I wanted it to be a Smartphone.
  25. Quick, someone hand me their credit card and I will test the phone out for you
  26. Wow. Alot of hate towards the myTouch!

    Well, I pre-ordered it.

    I really love the much smaller size, and I can't remember when I've flipped the physical keyboard on my G1 out the last time. I've loved the G1, but face it, the hardware looks, um, shall we say, "dated"???

    I figure this way. First, I won't GET the phone for three more weeks. Once I get the myTouch, according to California law AND T Mobile, I have 30 days to decide to keep it or return it.

    That's about 7 weeks from now.

    In 7 weeks, I expect to know if the boys at XDA have figured out a way to hack the myTouch and/or put Sense UI on the myTouch. Hardly impossible or even unlikely, considering the wonders they've already managed!

    I'll ALSO be able to see what new phones are appearing, and which, if any, are coming to T Mobile. I really do NOT want to change carriers. I've tried the others, and frankly, hated them with a passion!

    Anyways, using my wife's phone account, I get the myTouch for $200, and from what I've seen, I can sell my G1 on eBay for about $240-260, so I wont' even be out of pocket.

    I also ( Blasphemy coming ... faint of heart, look away!!!) think I like the look and FEEL of the myTouch (stupid name....) more then the Hero. It's a VERY nice phone in your hands... it's much narrower then the iPhone, and the curves make it feel more comfortable, to ME, when I'm holding it (if you haven't held one or used one, only seen photos, you should really see it in person, it's MUCH smaller then the photos make it appear)

    People are saying it doesn't ADD anything, it's even TWENTY DOLLARS MORE then the G1! Hey, it ADDS a much sleeker, thinner design. It ADDS more storage (about 4x as much) for apps as the G1 has, and it ADDS much better battery life, according to reports. My complaints about the G1 were it's large/unelegant, lousy battery life, and storage for apps is a JOKE (don't tell me about rooting... I'm rooted, but MOST users do NOT want to root their phones simply to gain space for apps). The mT addresses these issues.

    Anyway.. just kind of surprised at the venom people seem to feel for this phone, but to each his/her own! Not trying to sell anyone. As I said, I plan to use the phone for three weeks, and see how I like it.

    Just don't understand all the talk about how this phone doesn't ADD anything to the G1. That's simply not true, and a rediculous statement, even if YOU dont' happen to want/like the device.
  27. I would have bought it for the full price if it had 288 megs RAM. But at this point it doesn't give me enough to justify a full price purchase.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Shel View Post
    Wow. Alot of hate towards the myTouch!

    Well, I pre-ordered it.

    I really love the much smaller size, and I can't remember when I've flipped the physical keyboard on my G1 out the last time. I've loved the G1, but face it, the hardware looks, um, shall we say, "dated"???

    I figure this way. First, I won't GET the phone for three more weeks. Once I get the myTouch, according to California law AND T Mobile, I have 30 days to decide to keep it or return it.

    That's about 7 weeks from now.

    In 7 weeks, I expect to know if the boys at XDA have figured out a way to hack the myTouch and/or put Sense UI on the myTouch. Hardly impossible or even unlikely, considering the wonders they've already managed!

    I'll ALSO be able to see what new phones are appearing, and which, if any, are coming to T Mobile. I really do NOT want to change carriers. I've tried the others, and frankly, hated them with a passion!

    Anyways, using my wife's phone account, I get the myTouch for $200, and from what I've seen, I can sell my G1 on eBay for about $240-260, so I wont' even be out of pocket.

    I also ( Blasphemy coming ... faint of heart, look away!!!) think I like the look and FEEL of the myTouch (stupid name....) more then the Hero. It's a VERY nice phone in your hands... it's much narrower then the iPhone, and the curves make it feel more comfortable, to ME, when I'm holding it (if you haven't held one or used one, only seen photos, you should really see it in person, it's MUCH smaller then the photos make it appear)

    People are saying it doesn't ADD anything, it's even TWENTY DOLLARS MORE then the G1! Hey, it ADDS a much sleeker, thinner design. It ADDS more storage (about 4x as much) for apps as the G1 has, and it ADDS much better battery life, according to reports. My complaints about the G1 were it's large/unelegant, lousy battery life, and storage for apps is a JOKE (don't tell me about rooting... I'm rooted, but MOST users do NOT want to root their phones simply to gain space for apps). The mT addresses these issues.

    Anyway.. just kind of surprised at the venom people seem to feel for this phone, but to each his/her own! Not trying to sell anyone. As I said, I plan to use the phone for three weeks, and see how I like it.

    Just don't understand all the talk about how this phone doesn't ADD anything to the G1. That's simply not true, and a rediculous statement, even if YOU dont' happen to want/like the device.
  28. Isn't the Mytouch BASICALLY a g1 minus keyboard/and it's thinner?
  29. Quote:
    Originally Posted by AIpha View Post
    Isn't the Mytouch BASICALLY a g1 minus keyboard/and it's thinner?
    isnt a flat screen tv just a tv minus the CRT? isnt a laptop a desktop minus the bulk? isnt a bike just a motorcycle minus the motor?


    lol just messin with u
  30. Quote:
    Originally Posted by konzern View Post
    isnt a flat screen tv just a tv minus the CRT? isnt a laptop a desktop minus the bulk? isnt a bike just a motorcycle minus the motor?


    lol just messin with u
    Was about to say. xD
  31. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Shel View Post
    Wow. Alot of hate towards the myTouch!

    Well, I pre-ordered it.

    I really love the much smaller size, and I can't remember when I've flipped the physical keyboard on my G1 out the last time. I've loved the G1, but face it, the hardware looks, um, shall we say, "dated"???

    I figure this way. First, I won't GET the phone for three more weeks. Once I get the myTouch, according to California law AND T Mobile, I have 30 days to decide to keep it or return it.

    That's about 7 weeks from now.

    In 7 weeks, I expect to know if the boys at XDA have figured out a way to hack the myTouch and/or put Sense UI on the myTouch. Hardly impossible or even unlikely, considering the wonders they've already managed!

    I'll ALSO be able to see what new phones are appearing, and which, if any, are coming to T Mobile. I really do NOT want to change carriers. I've tried the others, and frankly, hated them with a passion!

    Anyways, using my wife's phone account, I get the myTouch for $200, and from what I've seen, I can sell my G1 on eBay for about $240-260, so I wont' even be out of pocket.

    I also ( Blasphemy coming ... faint of heart, look away!!!) think I like the look and FEEL of the myTouch (stupid name....) more then the Hero. It's a VERY nice phone in your hands... it's much narrower then the iPhone, and the curves make it feel more comfortable, to ME, when I'm holding it (if you haven't held one or used one, only seen photos, you should really see it in person, it's MUCH smaller then the photos make it appear)

    People are saying it doesn't ADD anything, it's even TWENTY DOLLARS MORE then the G1! Hey, it ADDS a much sleeker, thinner design. It ADDS more storage (about 4x as much) for apps as the G1 has, and it ADDS much better battery life, according to reports. My complaints about the G1 were it's large/unelegant, lousy battery life, and storage for apps is a JOKE (don't tell me about rooting... I'm rooted, but MOST users do NOT want to root their phones simply to gain space for apps). The mT addresses these issues.

    Anyway.. just kind of surprised at the venom people seem to feel for this phone, but to each his/her own! Not trying to sell anyone. As I said, I plan to use the phone for three weeks, and see how I like it.

    Just don't understand all the talk about how this phone doesn't ADD anything to the G1. That's simply not true, and a rediculous statement, even if YOU dont' happen to want/like the device.
    i think alot of the hostility comes from people wanting a new device in the states and the fact that the HTC magic is an old phone... i mean we got the rest of the worlds leftovers while they cont to get new toys....
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by AIpha View Post
    Isn't the Mytouch BASICALLY a g1 minus keyboard/and it's thinner?
    yup.
  32. leftovers hahahah

    i want my hero already =(
  33. Quote:
    Originally Posted by konzern View Post
    well how come i have heard ppl say "i upgraded my phone so i added another 2 years to my contract so my contract is up to 10 years"

    i added 4 years in less than a year

    1. got my g1 when it came + 2
    2. got robbed for g1, got new cheapo phone +2

    **3** if i were to get the mytouch they would prolly want another + 2

    = 6 years alll in less than a year
  34. You got robbed for your g1? Isn't there an app for that? xD

    seriously though...sorry. :/
  35. Well T-Mobile suck the big one to me. I wanted to upgrade my phone for the myTouch 3G, but because I am on the flex pay plan, I am "not eligible" and have to wait until it is availble in the stores on August 5. Sucks big time ....
  36. why do people complain about having a contract? Who upgrades their phone that often? Pay the full cost if you want a new freaking phone.
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