Today the Motorola VE440 became available for sale from MetroPCS. This monoblock-style phone is billed by Motorola as a music phone and has dedicated music keys, a 3.5mm headset jack, stereo Bluetooth, and support for microSD cards up to 8GB. The VE440 is a tri-band 800/1700/1900 CDMA device that is limited to 1x data but [...]

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On Samsung’s web site, the R560 Vice, which is for sale in Canada, appears with MetroPCS branding on it. The name “Messager” appears below the phone pictured on the Samsung site. It resembles the Samsung R450 Messager, which was sold by MetroPCS. The phone seen on the Samsung site is a sideways slider that has [...]

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Today documents on the FCC web site revealed few details about an unannounced phone from Huawei. The M750 has tri-band CDMA 1x radios with support for AWS bands, Bluetooth and a 1.3 megapixel camera. The M750, which appears with MetroPCS branding on it, could be a touch phone, but that’s indeterminate based on the FCC [...]

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Samsung and MetroPCS today announced the Tint R420, a basic clamshell phone with user-changeable front and back covers. Other features include ChatLINK push-to-talk, Bluetooth, camera, color outer display, and GPS navigation. With tri-band CDMA, the Tint supports the AWS CDMA networks in MetroPCS’ newest covered cities. The Tint is available now in select locations for [...]

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Documents seen on the FCC site provide details about an unannounced Motorola phone. The QA4 is a slider that also features a touch screen for user input. It has tri-band 850/1700/1900 MHz CDMA radios, including EVDO, aGPS and stereo Bluetooth. A camera of unknown quality is visible in the pictures of the QA4, and the [...]

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Two unannounced phones have appeared on the Virgin Mobile web site.

X-tc: The X-tc was first seen a month ago and details about the X-tc have also been published on the Kyocera site. The X-tc is a slider with QWERTY keyboard for messaging. It has a 1.3 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, web browser, media player with [...]

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Today Samsung revealed information about the r310 Byline, which will be available via MetroPCS. This clamshell features push-to-talk capabilities, dual-displays, Bluetooth, speakerphone, and basic messaging. MetroPCS has not said when the r310 Byline will go on sale, nor what the selling price will be.

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Documents appearing on the FCC site provide details for the Kyocera S1300, a tri-band 800/1700/1900MHz CDMA monoblock phone. The specs of the S1300 suggest that it is an entry-level device. It is limited to 1X data, but has aGPS and a speakerphone. It does not have a camera, but supports Web browsing, text messaging and [...]

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Today MetroPCS announced a new service for its customers that allows them to see the identity of callers even if the callers are not in their contacts list. Screen-it displays the calling party’s name on a subscriber’s wireless phone. This will let people screen their calls more effectively when an otherwise unknown number calls. MetroPCS [...]

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The Hauwei M328 has already been on sale with MetroPCS for a little while, but the FCC just published more documentation about it. This tri-band CDMA flip phone includes support for MetroPCS’ 1700 AWS spectrum. Otherwise it has entry-level features, which include access to MetroPCS’ mobile web services and third-party applications, as well as mobile [...]

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