Samsung prepping a 3G bounty for T-Mobile this year

It's not clear how people manage to score so many good pictures of phones that aren't scheduled for announcement -- much less release -- for months, but who are we to complain? Some crafty dude over on TmoNews' forums is showing off much of Samsung's 2009 lineup for T-Mobile, and the first fantastic bit of news here is that everything we're seeing is apparently 3G; that's a good sign that T-Mobile's confident enough about its AWS buildout to start transitioning its lineup to 3G en masse, and plump 3G lineups always makes us happy. Anyhow, we've got the Gravity 2 here your choice of red or orange, the 20-key t349 candybar, and that's not all we've got for you QWERTY and half-QWERTY fans -- there's an unnamed clamshell here (pictured) that'll be available in two colors. Finally, there's a supposedly low-cost full touchscreen device looking a little bit like a cross between a Cookie and an Instinct s30 that's running TouchWiz and features a 3 megapixel camera. No Android stuff here, though the lucky poster says that he believes the device will be the i7500 and won't be available until November -- a bummer if true.

[Thanks, Glenn]

[(Unverified) Posted May 6th 2009 11:40AM]

Whoa, interesting design. I don't like how there is a directional pad in there though, it makes the keyboard too offset.

[KyleLipp Posted May 7th 2009 10:47AM]

...or move it to the left side and make it look more like a d pad. i would love to see a phone with built in physical gaming controls. it would be great if it ran android.

[(Unverified) Posted May 6th 2009 11:53AM]

Looks like an ugly version on the original enV.

[KeegdnaB Posted May 6th 2009 1:16PM]

that was my exact thought

[(Unverified) Posted May 6th 2009 2:36PM]

It looks nice.. Its about time that tmobile finally comes out with a nicer looking 3g keyboard phone.. Ill take a red one lol..

[(Unverified) Posted May 6th 2009 1:51PM]

welcome to 2004. here's your cellphone.

[SeanR Posted May 6th 2009 3:25PM]

"It's not clear how people manage to score so many good pictures of phones that aren't scheduled for announcement"

You'd rather Mr Blurry Cam came back?

[(Unverified) Posted May 8th 2009 5:00AM]

Cute little phone when opened.

[(Unverified) Posted May 6th 2009 8:32PM]

Thank you Thank you... Its about time I get some credit for the stuff I have submitted to engadget. Enjoy and check back for more updates.

[(Unverified) Posted May 12th 2009 1:07AM]

can U let me know when tmobile will be releaseing a phone like the verison voyager. if so please let me know.I would love to see tmobile with that phone.

[(Unverified) Posted May 21st 2009 1:13AM]

Samsung prepping a 3G bounty for T-Mobile this year what day this phone will be out and what the name of this phone its tide and like it a ll lot it's similar than the sidekick of 2009