Isaiah's Tech

There's not much to say here, but T-Mobile has just released the Samsung Scarlet as the Samsung t659. This slider handset is now available for $69.99 USD after a $50 mail-in rebate on a 2-year contract. The t659 has: a 2.2-inch display, a 2MP camera, Stereo Bluetooth, a microSD card slot, and GPS support to name a few goodies. You can check it out on T-Mobile's official site now.

[Phone Arena]

Earlier this morning the Samsung Intensity U450 was spotted on Verizon's website for $29.99 USD after a $50 rebate on a 2-year contract. The U450 has: a 2.1-inch display with a 176 x 220 resolution, a 1.3MP camera, a 2.5mm headphone jack, and a microSDHC card slot. Unfortunately, the listing on Verizon's website has now been pulled.

The T-Mobile Samsung T659 has been seen before, but this is now official. The T659 Scarlet has: a 2.2-inch QVGA display, a 2MP camera, Stereo Bluetooth, quad-band HSDPA connectivity, and a microSD card slot. This handset is going to launch on T-Mobile on September 9th, but the price hasn't been mentioned yet.

Samsung Intensity U450: Phone Arena
T-Mobile Samsung T659: Phone Arena

It looks like T-Mobile is planning to release the Samsung T659 Scarlet (above) and the Nokia 5130 XpressMusic (below) next month (September). The Scarlet has already passed the FCC and if you're interested you can check out the full spec sheet here. It's scheduled to launch on T-Mobile on September 2, but the price is still unknown.

The handset I haven't talked about before is the Nokia 5130. This handset will have: a QVGA display, a 2MP camera, a 3.5mm headphone jack, stereo Bluetooth, and stereo FM radio with RDS. Unfortunately, this handset will not have 3G support. T-Mobile looks like they will be selling this handset starting on September 16th, but the price hasn't been mentioned yet.

[Unwired View]

The Samsung T659 Scarlet has just been leaked out. It was supposed to launch alongside the Gravity 2, but clearly, that didn't happen. Anyways, the Scarlet has: a 2MP camera, Bluetooth + EDR, quad-band GSM / dual-band WCDMA support, 3G, and a microSD card slot. We don't know when or how much this will launch for, but it should be available soon since it passed the FCC.

[Boy Genius]

According to TMO News, this is T-Mobile's summer roadmap. There are still a couple of unknown devices but the highlight could definitely be the HTC Touch Pro 2 that will be released on July 22, 2009. Here you go:

• “Blade” (Sidekick 2009) - May 13
• HTC “Maple”/”Snap” - July 1st (contrary to earlier speculation, this seems to confirm a T-Mobile variant)
• HTC “Rhodium”/Wing II - July 22nd (also known as the Touch Pro 2)
• HTC “Sapphire”/”Magic” - TBD. Sorry folks.. we’ll keep you posted (a.k.a. G2)
• Sony Ericsson “CS8″ - June 24th (8mp camera? Is this the Android device they’ve been talking about?)
• Nokia 1661 (prepaid) - April 29th (We know, a week later than previously mentioned. But you know the wait will be SO worth it. No… really… it will be… )
• Samsung T349 (prepaid) - May 6th
• Samsung T239 (prepaid) - May 13th
• Samsung T559 - July 15th
• Samsung T469  - July 15th (just a simple two-tone gray, apparently)
• Samsung T749 - July 22nd (2 colors for this one: red/orange and two-tone gray)
• Samsung T659 - August 19th