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If you are with T-Mobile UK or you would like to buy new phone or you can get new phone much cheaper with your existing contract with T-Mobile UK, then you may be interested in what is coming up:

HTC Touch was released as MDA Touch by T-Mobile UK yesterday. Unfortunately though, all stock has already sold through. There are limited number of devices available in-store, with more available over the telephone and on-line in August.

Regarding T-Mobile MDA Vario III (T-Mobile EU incarnation of HTC Kaiser): T-Mobile will release it around September 2007.

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Today T-Mobile officially launched the replacement for their recently discontinued MDA smartphone, the T-Mobile Wing. Built by HTC and based on their Herald reference device, the new T-Mobile Wing comes equipped with quad-band GSM/EDGE support, a 2.8″ display, a slide-out, full QWERTY keyboard. It also sports a new trim profile covered in a soft-touch blue paint scheme that matches the default color scheme used in its new Windows Mobile 6 Professional operating system.

While the device is still a bit hefty, at 169g (6.7oz), the form factor is a bit less monoblock in shape. The front and back faces of the Wing have been slightly sculpted in an effort to thin the device out and improve the feel of the phone when held in the user’s hand. These changes result in the Wing being about 4mm thinner overall than the MDA it replaces. Another major difference in terms of the form factor is that the QWERTY keyboard now extends out of the right side of the Wing instead of the left side, meaning that the d-pad is now located to the left of the display when the keyboard is in use.

While not a revolutionary upgrade for current MDA users, the T-Mobile My Faves compatible Wing ups the style level a bit and should prove to be a bit more accessible and user friendly as far as the average consumer is concerned. It is available now from T-Mobile for a price of US$299 with a new two year service agreement.

Expect a full review of the T-Mobile Wing from us in the coming weeks.

The Mobile Data Association (MDA) has said that UK mobile users sent 88 million picture messages (MMS) during the third quarter of 2006. October’s total was the highest, with 30 million picture messages sent across the networks.

Although trumpeted by the Mobile Data Association as “astonishing” numbers, MMS figures are still absolutely dwarfed by SMS usage. Latest MDA figures show that there ae now 126 million messages a day being sent in the UK.

So a million a day is a decent number, but it shows that there is plenty of headroom for further growth, and revenue growth, in this market. The MDA said that the Christmas period and better quality pictures should boost those numbers further.