Dear T-Mo faithful, are you being overstimulated by flashy phones like the myTouch 3G? Does the Touch Pro2 pack too much power under the hood for you? Do keyboards on phones like the Blackberry Curve 8520 completely flummox you? Well, fret no longer, because T-Mobile has an unremarkable candybar that’s just right for you! That right, Nokia’s latest (and by latest, we mean 6 months old) XpressMusic handset is due to shuffle onto T-Mobile store shelves come September 16.

All snarkiness aside, Nokia’s 5130 looks to be nothing if not a solid addition to T-Mobile’s lineup of entry-level phones. The specs have been well documented, which isn’t a surprise considering how long it’s already been floating around, but they seem adequate for the users T-Mobile’s targeting the phone at. Let’s take a peek:

• 2-inch QVGA display
• Quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• Support for up to 16 GB of expandable memory
• Stereo Bluetooth
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• FM radio with RDS

Sure, it probably won’t set your world on fire, but for all y’all folks looking for something pocketable on the cheap, it looks poised to do the job. Pricing is still unavailable, but we’ll be sure keep the four of you who actually care posted.

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I want live streaming video recording apps on the iPhone. You want live streaming video recording apps on the iPhone. Everyone wants live streaming video recording apps on the iPhone – except for Apple. Though such applications have been available through unofficial means for over a year now, Apple remains mum on the matter. There they sit in Apple’s review queue, rotting away beneath an “In Review” label.

Looking to find some way onto the platform, developers have begun to scale back their applications until they reach a point Apple is willing to greenlight. We saw it earlier this month with Ustream’s streamless app, and now Qik has followed suit. Beginning today, Qik’s own sans-streaming app is available for the iPhone 3GS.

Like the Ustream app, Qik’s new tool is primarily for pre-recorded video already camped out in your Camera Roll. You can also record video on the spot, but uploading does not begin until the recording is complete.

Though not a completely cutting-edge concept, Qik does claim a couple of firsts:

• Auto Uploading: If you record within the app, videos are uploaded immediately after shooting is complete.
• Record video in either portrait or landscape mode.
• Geotagged video uploads, based on your position at the time of upload
• Auto uploads to Facebook, Youtube, and various blog services.

It’s not the jailbreak-free streaming solution we’re dying for, but it’s the best we’ll get until Apple gets friendly with the concept.

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J.D Power and Associates just issued Volume 2 of their Wireless Customer Care report, which runs from January to June of 2009.

It’s a big three-way tie this time around, with T-Mobile, Alltel, and Verizon all taking a victory lap. AT&T follows behind with an “About Average” (3/5) rating, while Sprint stumbles with a paltry 2/5.

At this point, T-Mobile can pretty much build a small fort out of these little glass trophies, having taken one home 9 out of the last 10 reports. Don’t be too surprised if these things start popping on the garage sale circuit.

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CrashCorp, the joint venture between former Digg Lead Architect Joe Stump, and former co-founder of Socialthing, Matt Galligan, have released two videos of a proof-of-concept app developed for the iPhone.

After speaking Matt Galligan, he mentioned that CrashCorp is changing the direction of their company. He also notes:

Right now, there’s a gap in the market, as it relates to making it easy to add persistent location to mobile apps. We’re simply addressing that gap by providing an end-to-end location solution for app developers. Part of that solution will include developing SDK’s for mobile devices, that will allow app developers to quickly add new ways to view location data.

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Lets say you hate the iPhone. Maybe its because the plans are too damned expensive. Maybe it’s because it’s because Apple’s app approval process is twelve kinds of terrible. Maybe it’s because it’s taken over all of your favorite gadget blogs for the past 3 years.

Whatever reason you have for disliking Cupertino’s little flamewar generator, you don’t hate it as much as this guy.

Like others, he decided he was done with the iphone. Unlike others, however, he didn’t just cram it into a sock drawer and forget about it. He crammed it between a couple of logs, then shot it with a 9mm.

Oh, and then he burned it. You know, just in case anyone wanted to try and use it after two bullets had passed through the screen, innards, and back casing.

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Fact: That is actually what 3G radio waves look like. Yep, little tiny 3Gs. Crazy coincidence.

You feel that warmth, St. Louis? That’s the feeling of 3G radio waves swimming around your head. Following launches in El Paso, Bakersfield, Thousand Oaks, Milwaukee, Chattanooga, Jacksonville, and a ton of other cities, T-Mobile has just flipped the switches in St. Louis, MO. They’ve still blanketed but a tiny chunk of the US – but progress is progress, right? See the current 3G map after the jump.

So, go ahead – you’ve waited long enough. Whip out your G1s, your myTouches, and your Touch Pro 2’s, and browse away at a reasonable speed.

Dark purple spots are 3G coverage areas. Shot taken on 8/13/09:

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Didn’t buy Metal Gear Solid Touch the first time ’round? Good, because Konami just dropped the price by $5. Yup, it’s now $2.99 on that there App Store [iTunes link] for two days only. Once August 15 hits, it goes back to its full price. So if you were ever on the fence, you know…

And in the interest of linking to random YouTube videos, check this out if you have the chance. It’s the Eminence Orchestra performing the Metal Gear Solid theme.

Trivia: I used to be able to play that classical guitar part on my very own classical guitar. These are the things you do when you’re 16 and have no real reason to wake up in the morning!

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Welcome to our first ever Talkback Thursday, where we reach out to our readers for feedback on what they want to see. We generally feel that community committees lead to chaos (and that alliteration is amazingly awesome), but we like you guys.

MobileCrunch has grown a lot over the past year or so. A lot a lot. I’m not sure if we’re revealing the numbers just yet – but take an already decent number, then increase it a few thousand percent, and you’d get a rough idea. We’ve built up a good sized base of regular readers. We’ve got a few small changes we’re considering implementing for the sake of making the site that much more enjoyable, but figured our readers could help us gauge if it was worth the time.

One thing we’re considering, and the topic of this poll, is tagging each post (including all archived posts) with relevant keywords. It’s a blog standard, but something we’ve never really done – at least, not very consistently.

Not sure what the benefit of tagging is? It’s pretty simple. Lets say we wrote a post about a gang of exploding iPhones mugging a Palm Pre (which happens more often than you might expect.) Below the main body of the post would be a handful of links, one for each major topic in the post: Apple, iPhone, Palm, Pre. Clicking “Apple” would take you to a page with every Apple story we’ve ever written, while clicking “iPhone” would take you to a page with every iPhone-specific story we’d written. For example, here’s the tag page for Talkback Thursday. This is the first Talkback Thursday post, so there’s one post there.

Our backend supports it, and our sister and parent blogs do it; the only reason we don’t, really, is because the team prior to the current one didn’t. It would require 6 or 7 hours of tearing through the archives and assigning tags to the past posts. If even a handful of folks think they’d use it from time to time, we’ll get it done.

Would you use tags if we implemented them?(answers)

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We probably won’t be seeing Dell’s smartphone hit our shores anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t piqued our interest. I mean, come on: It’s Dell, who brings a fresh face to this whole crazy (and stagnating) world of cell phones, and it’s Android.

Along with the absurdly blurry render you see up above, BGR got their hands on some new details which purportedly represent the specs in Dell’s handset. More than half of the list could have been assumed be it that this handset actually is running Android, though a few interesting bits are tucked throughout:

Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE class 12
Size: 68.6cc
103g grams weight
Dimensions: 58 x 122 x 11.7mm
Display: 3.5” nHD 640×360 LCD, 18-bit, 262K colors
OTA capable
Microsoft Exchange support
Google, AIM, Yahoo and MSN IM support
3 megapixel auto-focus, flash, 8x digital zoom camera with 30fps video shooting mode, built in photo editor
USB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
A-GPS
On-screen QWERTY keyboard, hardwriting recognition, multi touch UI
MicroSD slot

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Good news for HTC! The Magic, also known as the MyTouch 3G, has sold a million units, according to Digitimes. I never really liked the look of this thing, but I’m sure it’s a solid phone. Arrington seems to like it, anyway.

I like my G1, but don’t think I wasn’t tempted by the Magic’s increased internal storage and sleeker form factor. I just love me some physical keyboard, okay? By the way — if you’re one of the million people with a myTouch/Magic, you might consider rooting it to get the most out of it.

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One… MILLION HTC Magics