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T-Mobile celebrated the launch of their new limited edition Sidekick 3 with a celebrity filled party last night, and just as before the little handheld drew the ladies.

Other than the customized paint jobs by designers Lifted Research Group and Diane von Furstenburg, and the to be expected bump in price, there’s nothing particularly new about these limited edition Sidekicks. These fancy new handhelds will be made available in limited quantities at select T-Mobile retail stores and online beginning Oct. 30.

But enough of that, you really want to see the ladies. There are 25 pictures of Amber Tamblyn, Christy Carlson Romano, Lindsay Lohan, Mischa Barton and Vida Guerra after the jump, so…

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We’re such a fan of Lauren Conrad and The Hills that we thought we’d give Lauren her own little post from the T-Mobile Sidekick 3 party. More pictures of Lauren (and Jason, unfortunately) are below, after the jump.

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T-Mobile really knows how to generate buzz over their new Sidekick 3 — gather Hollywood’s finest ladies, pass out a few of those much talked about Sidekicks, and let the champagne flow like water…

[14 lovely ladies after the jump]
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T-Mobile is (finally) offering the new BlackBerry 8700g; complete with EDGE, a 312MHz Intel Xscale processor, QVGA color display, Bluetooth and Quad-band. The 8700g gives you a new, faster way of getting your crackberry fix. The cost? $399, or $299 after mail-in rebates.

The U.S. patent office has ruled against the last of five NTP Inc. patents at the center of a legal dispute between NTP and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., NTP confirmed Thursday.

NTP, a closely held U.S.-based patent holding company, successfully sued RIM in 2002 for patent infringement and later won an injunction, stayed pending appeal, to halt U.S. sales of RIM’s wireless e-mail device.

At the same time, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been re-examining the validity of eight NTP patents, five of which were involved in the patent-infringement suit.

This is good news for RIM, but the company cautions investors on being overly optimistic with the ruling, saying that it only has a partial bearing on the case. I think this weekend’s upgrade of T-Mobile’s BlackBerry service is a good indication that RIM is well on their way of circumventing the NTP claims entirely. Speaking of the service upgrade, other than sporadic delivery of email, it was relatively painless. Well done T-Mo.

[via MSNBC]

Soon after T-Mobile’s announcement that their US network is well on its way to being upgraded to EDGE, T-Mobile Europe made the announcement that their networks in UK, Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands will be upgraded from UMTS to an even faster version of 3G known as HSDPA.

This new network initially promises speeds of up to 1.8Mpbs, but can be upgraded to as high as 7.2Mbps. Meanwhile, back in the States we have to settle for a measly 100Kbps.

T-Mobile has announced that it has already launched EDGE services across 90% of its GPRS network and that higher-speed data service is now available to current customers with EDGE equipped devices.

The carrier was expected to launch EDGE earlier this year, but delayed the service due to a lack of compelling devices.

T-Mobile USA currently offers a pair of EDGE-enabled handsets from Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. A company spokesman said customers can continue to access the EDGE services for the same price as their current GRPS rate plans, but that the carrier would begin looking at possible EDGE-specific pricing plans sometime in the future.

[via Phone Scoop and RCR Wireless News]