Sony Ericsson is struggling to gain market share in the mobile phone arena. Sony Ericsson has not enjoyed much success in the market and is out to grow its business. Launching cool handsets is one way to grow its market and another is to make its handsets available on more networks.

Sony Ericsson announced today that it is producing its first handset built specifically for the AWS spectrum 1700/2100 network that T-Mobile operates in America. The handset is the first from Sony Ericsson to support T-Mobile and is called the TM506. The TM506 connects to T-Mobile’s 3G network.

There have been lots of rumors about the highly anticipated Android-powered, HTC Dream phone. Now it’s official. T-Mobile confirmed today that it plans to launch an Android mobile phone made by HTC. They are hoping to make it a direct threat to Apple’s popular iPhone.

A spokesman for Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s parent company gave no details on the launch date, but according to the New York Times, the phone will hit stores in the United States before Christmas. Maybe even as early as October. Apparently the device will have a touch screen and will slide out to reveal a full five-row keyboard.

Nokia said today it would be adding a new XpressMusic mobile phone to Nokia 5610 XpressMusic and you’ll find it pricing around $100 after rebates and such.

The Nokia 5160 XpressMusic, available in red and white color choices, is a music slider phone with aluminum side panels and a 2.2-inch color display. It offers up to 22 hours of music playback and a memory capacity for up to 3,000 songs on an optional 4GB microSD card. It also has a built-in 3.2-megapixel 3.2 digital camera.

You don’t have to look very hard to notice that American’s really love their cell phones. We take them with us everywhere so we are always connected. You also don’t have to look very hard to notice that we also really like to customize our cell phones to suit our personalities.

T-Mobile has announced the newest edition of its popular Sidekick mobile phones. The new version allows for easy customization by the user to suit their style for the day. The new Sidekick will ship with two shells in black and metallic green colors.

T-Mobile announced it’s own version of Motorola’s ROKR E8, a delicious candybar which is shiny, sleek, glossy and black. Okay, maybe it’s not that much of a looker. Some features are: a 2 megapixel camera, 2GB of internal storage, microSD slot that will get you 8GB more, stereo Bluetooth, 3.5mm headphone jack, FM radio, and the morphing keypad that makes keys invisible like magic.(If you are in the right mode) Not a surprise that there’s no 3G, but T-Mobile customers are used to that. You can get the E8 starting July 7 for $199.99 with contract.

There are lots of people out there who no longer have a home phone, preferring instead to use only cellular phones. However, for some people giving up their home phone is something they don’t want to do. For these folks finding ways to save money on home calling can be a priority with the average home phone bill hitting $65.

T-Mobile has announced a new home calling plan today called T-Mobile @Home that only costs $10 per month for unlimited nationwide phone calls. The service will be offered starting on July 2 and allows users to keep their existing home phone number and add the $10 month fee to their existing T-Mobile bill.

Music phones are becoming more and more popular and will continue to do so as the available wireless bandwidth in the U.S. grows allowing for over the air downloads in more areas. T-Mobile announced today that it was launching its latest music phone from Nokia.

The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone features external music controls, stereo Bluetooth, wired stereo headset, USB cable for loading music and a memory card. The device ships with two tracks installed from Panic At The Disco and Phantom Planet.

Boy Genius has some more pics and specs for RIM’s first Blackberry clamshell, the Kickstart. It’s launching on T-Mobile, and now we find out that it’s actually better looking then it originally appeared.

It also will probably come in the full rainbow of colors. There’s another little detail about some sort of glow surrounding the screen. It’s definitely a consumer phone, with pretty average specs, and lacking 3G. It’s does have Wi-Fi, a 2MP cam, internal LCD is 320×240, external is 160×128, and it’s running the 4.6 OS. BGR’s thinking a September release date.

In anticipation of a new iPhone model coming to Germany, T-Mobile has drastically slashed the price of the existing 8GB model from €399 to just €99 for German customers. This lower price equates to approximately $155 USD, where the 8GB iPhone is currently going for $399 with a 2 year contract in the United States.

The €99 iPhone is being offered for a limited time from April 7 through June 30 and comes with a 2 year plan for 89 euros a month. The 16GB model price appears to remain untouched with a price of €499. Apple has been rumored to have a new, faster 3G version of the iPhone in the works and this promotion may be a way to unload some of the older models prior to the launch. Alternatively it could also just be a promotion for Apple and T-Mobile to unload some of their inventory due to poor sales of the iPhone in the area due to the heavy competition of mobile handsets that are 3G enabled.

Today T-Mobile has announced the launch of the new Shadow mobile phone from HTC. This is the first of a number of Shadow-branded phones that T-Mobile has planned for the future as devices that are “designed for people who have lives beyond work.”, according to Robert Dotson, president and CEO of T-Mobile USA. The device runs on an enhanced version of Windows Mobile 6 which hides a lot of the usually interface from Windows Mobile and replaces it with custom menus and navigation. According to T-Mobile the enhanced interface makes the Shadow more intuitive and easier to use.

Aside from this slider looking just plain good, it also features a spin navigation wheel, 2.6″ display (not a touchscreen), microSD memory expansion slot, a full QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth, 2.0 megapixel camera with video capture, media player for music and video, Wi-Fi and EDGE high speed data. The Shadow also has an enhanced version of T-Mobiles myFaves where users can call, email, text, send a picture, send a video or send a voice note easily from the myFaves screen. It even has some instant messaging clients built in, including Windows Live Messenger, AOL IM, Yahoo Messenger and ICQ.

To address the numerous emails we’ve received over the past month after T-Mobile officially announced the Sidekick LX asking when it will be available, today is the day. The Sidekick LX is now available starting today from T-Mobile for $299 with discounts. It comes in colors of brown or blue and features a swivel screen and wireless Bluetooth.

The new LX is the upgraded model from the Sidekick 3 with a larger 3-inch QVGA display, 1.3 megapixel camera, an upgraded browser, push email, picture and text messaging, external caller ID and a media player for music but no videos. It also has a microSD card slot and comes with on 128MB card to get you going.

According to a recent report from Rheinische Post, Apple has just signed a deal with Deutsche Telekom T-Mobile to make Germany the next stop for an iPhone launch on November 1 of this year. The report is a preview to an alleged announcement planned for tomorrow where T-Mobile will be unveiled as the exclusive provider of the iPhone for Germany, selling the famed gadget for about 450 euros ($612).

While no sources of the news were cited and no comments from the involved parties were made this isn’t really set …

T-Moibile has officially announced the release of the latest Sidekick product called the Sidekick iD. SlipperyBrick reported on some rumors of pictures and specs of the ID about a week ago and it looks like they turned out to be pretty accurate.

The Sidekick iD is a scaled down version of the feature set you would find in the LRG Sidekick or D-Wade Sidekick versions, and also comes with a scaled down price of $99 with a 2 year service plan and the Sidekick data plan. This version of the …