The scheme adds less than 1% to the cost of a phone — between 3 and 5 euros on average (which is around $3 to $6) — a cost that’s being picked up by T-Mobile and Samsung with the S10e pilot.

The more exciting of the two phones, the Samsung Exhibit 4G will ship with Android 2.3, also known as Gingerbread. As the name implies, the Exhibit 4G will support T-Mobile’s HSPA+ 4G network.

Before 2017 wraps, T-Mobile is expecting both Samsung and LG to have phones that are capable of connecting to its newly-acquired 600MHz spectrum. The announcement came yesterday from the the ...