T-Mobile officially announces Samsung Behold and Gravity

by Chris Ziegler posted Nov 6th 2008 at 12:58PM

The long-rumored Samsung T919 Behold has finally broken cover in an official capacity for T-Mobile, offering a full-featured touchscreen handset (that isn't the G1) to take advantage of that cute little AWS 3G network they've been cooking up. Besides TouchWiz, features include a 5-megapixel cam with video capability, full HTML web browser (we should certainly hope so), and haptic feedback; look for it to launch on November 10 in your choice of two colors for $149.99 on contract, including the rather lovely "light rose." Next up, we have the Samsung Gravity -- T-Mobile's answer to the endless barrage of low-cost QWERTY texters coming from every other network -- featuring a candybar form that conceals a full keyboard on a side slide. It drops by a week later, November 17 for $49.99 on a two-year plan, in "lime" and "aqua." We think we know which one we'd rather have.

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Tags: behold, bold, breaking news, BreakingNews, gravity, samsung, t-mobile, t919

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Jimmy @ Nov 7th 2008 10:38AM

I can't believe no wifi or UMA for t919! EVERY phone that comes out for T-Mobile should
have this basic feature, considering T-mobile's horrible coverage.

Booooo!!!

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Max @ Nov 8th 2008 3:03PM

I am interested where T-Mobile has horrible coverage. I am in coastal SC and have good coverage. Kinda thinking about AT&T (to continue to use my unlocked GSM phone) , but I hear so much bad stuff about them. Just interested, like I said....

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kamakaze @ Dec 15th 2008 5:18AM

@Max

DuPont, Washington, that's where.
tmobile was so bad i had to sell my soul to verizon for two years.
i had not one bar of service at my work, school, or church, which is where i was 50% of my life.

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Gpymp @ Nov 8th 2008 10:06PM

Its my understanding that AT&T "dials down" their call quality for a wider reception area. There lies the difference where Tmo has a very good call quality and a very good call area.

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carcomptoy @ Nov 10th 2008 11:21PM

T-Mobile could stand to have much better coverage in certain areas. I've found that Florida is definitely not its strong point. A lot of it does have to do with the fact that its EDGE network is mainly 1900MHz, which while it sounds better, doesn't penetrate building as well, nor does it go as far. I'm anxious to try their 3G network at some point and time, although right now, it's understandably iffy being in its infancy.

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n8.nXt @ Nov 11th 2008 4:19PM

that gravity is looking good!

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cyberjx @ Jan 26th 2009 6:18PM

Looks good, but has problems. I have had two & am sending the second one back.
Phone eats, battery's. Samsung, needs to get to work on this model's problems.
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