Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Gravity Smart 2:39 The words “Samsung Gravity phone” immediately conjure images of tall feature phones with funky-shaped keys, QWERTY sliders, and pronounced accents in flame or neon colors. Take the Samsung Gravity Smart, then, as the mature member of this fun-loving family for T-Mobile. It’s brainier, running Android 2.2 Froyo …

We’ve been waiting a long time for that Huawei phone that puts the lesser-known manufacturer (at least in U.S. circles) on America’s smartphone map. It’s possible the Huawei Glory (Huawei M886) is the handset to do it. Our friends at PC Magazine went hands-on with the device, a souped-up Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone with a 1.4-GHz Qualcomm MSM8655T processor (Huawei …

Josh Miller/CNET T-Mobile has really taken to its 4G phones, and in the Samsung Exhibit 4G we see not only speed, but also practicality. In the Exhibit, T-Mo offers a less ambitious handset than, say, the CNET Editors’ Choice Award-winning HTC Sensation 4G. However, it’s one that still packs in promise: Android 2.3 Gingerbread, a 1GHz processor, and both a …

Samsung HM1700 Bluetooth headset Samsung Look for three new Samsung Bluetooth headsets to arrive on T-Mobile and Samsung’s virtual and retail shelves: the HM3700 ($59.99), HS3000 ($69.99), and HM1700 ($39.99). The HM3700 is a dual headset with mono and stereo modes. Similar to the Samsung Modus series, it combines noise cancellation (dual mic and echo) with the ability to stream …

T-Mobile has never been one to rest on its laurels when it comes to offering exciting smartphones, specials, and services, and that has remained true despite a proposed merger with rival carrier AT&T that’s picking up steam among government lobby groups and states. We knew T-Mobile was adopting an approach of business as usual, and a brisk business it’s been, …

Leaked earlier this week, T-Mobile and Samsung officially announced the Samsung Dart, available today for free with a new two-year contract. The Dart, also known as the T-Mobile t499, gets straight to the point with its features. Running Android 2.2 Froyo, the Dart is a 3G world phone (quad-band). It has a 3.1-inch QVGA screen, a 3-megapixel camera, and it …

Daily deals are big business, and an opportunity that T-Mobile is grabbing with its new More for Me application. Beginning today, Android smartphone owners can download the T-Mobile More for Me beta app from the Android Market. Groupon competitor LivingSocial is one deal broker supplying the app’s offers, along with Tippr, Goldstar, and other social coupon services. Just like other …

Swype Swype 3.0, the latest beta of a keyboard replacement app found in many Android phones, features two new notable features. It introduces predictive text for tapping, not just swiping, and a horizontal word choice list (following the Android model) that replaces the app’s previous pop-up window for narrowing down your word selections. A special version of Swype 3.0 for …

Just weeks after the Samsung Chrono arrived at U.S. Cellular, it also lands at Cricket Wireless. The Chrono is about as simple a flip phone as you can get, with a VGA camera and Bluetooth support. It’s light (just three ounces), comfortable to use, and has a smooth, attractive body. It also manages to extract top-notch call voice quality, or …

In most respects, the HTC Merge for U.S. Cellular is a fairly standard Android 2.2 Froyo smartphone. It’s got a decent but standard touch screen, a nice but not superlative 5-megapixel camera (with 720p HD video capture and playback, we might add,) and an unremarkable keyboard that’s nevertheless sufficient. The phone’s primary point of difference lurks below the back cover, …