T-Mobile has officially become the first carrier in North America to offer Motorola’s MOTOZINE ZN5. The ZN5 is a quadband EDGE handset with WiFi, a morphing keypad and a 5-megapixel camera. The camera features xenon flash and a suite of Kodak imaging software. T-Mobile is only charging $99 for the unit, however that deal comes with the promise of a two year contract. Look for the ZN5 in T-Mobile stores and online starting today.

T-Mobile’s RC29 upgrade for their G1 arrives on November 11th. For the impatient, there is a way to manually force the upgrade. Simply download the update and move it to a MicroSD card. That’s pretty much it. T-Mobile has warned that the manual upgrade isn’t officially supported, so if you muck up your G1 you are on your own. Also, the company has yet to reveal exactly what is on the upgrade. Curious yet?

The T-Mobile G1 has now been successfully unlocked. The geniuses at Unlock-TMobileG1.com have come to the rescue of T-Mobile haters world-wide. The only downside is that they are charging $23 for the unlock codes.

Call me crazy, but I find a fundamental problem PAYING for unlock codes to a phone running an open-source OS. I guess it’s better than T-Mobile’s 90 day unlock policy but still, I don’t like it!

Rumor has it that T-Mobile are going to start experiencing a price hike starting the beginning of November on most data plans. Not all customers will be affected. The Blackberry unlimited data plans are supposed to stay the same but other plans may experience a data cap in addition to price increase.

With great speed comes great responsibility. I guess T-Mobile is trying to offset the cost of rolling out spotty 3G services. Now you can pay more for your crappy service.

Starting today, any developer can register and upload their own applications to the Android market. The apps require no approval from the powers that be. This should result in a tidal wave of original content for the platform. Developers of the mobile platform will also be providing would-be programmers with a device that tests their apps and readies them for upload. In a few months, once programmers are up to speed, this should really get interesting. Click here for details written by Android’s Eric Chu.