T-Mobile announced two new budget smartphones at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today-the T-Mobile Move and the Samsung Galaxy Mini. Both phones will become available in the US sometime this Spring, and will likely cost only $50-$75 with a two-year contract.

The Samsung Galaxy Mini

Time Inc. announced today that, starting Friday, it will begin selling digital subscriptions to Sports Illustrated, both for Android-powered smartphones and tablets, and on the Web. An annual subscription to print and digital versions of the magazine will cost $48 per year, and a monthly subscription to the weekly magazine can be purchased for $4.99 (the same price as just one issue of the iPad edition of SI). Those who want an annual, digital-only subscription are out of luck for now, since Time will offer digital-only subscriptions at monthly rates rather than annual. If you’re already an SI subscriber, you’ll have immediate access to the digital version of the magazine for the remainder of your subscription. From there, it will be up you to choose which option suits you best.

For all the rumors surrounding digital newsstands from Apple and Google, Yahoo beat both of them to the punch with the unveiling of its new Livestand digital newsstand for tablets and smartphones today.

Livestand is slated for launch on the iPad and Android-based tablets in the first half of this year and will initially feature personalized digital content from Yahoo websites including Flickr, Yahoo! Finance and omg!

Prepaid carrier MetroPCS has landed a smartphone from Samsung’s Galaxy S lineup to support its new LTE services.

The Samsung Galaxy Indulge is the first LTE-capable Android smartphone to hit the market. The device comes equipped with Android 2.2 Froyo, a 1GHz processor, 3-megapixel camera and a 4GB microSD card preloaded with the action flick Ironman 2.

A surge in sales turned Android into the second biggest smartphone platform in the world last year, according to a new report from Gartner.

Unit sales of smartphones running Google’s mobile OS grew 888.8 percent year over year, from 6.8 million in 2009 to 67.2 million in 2010. In terms of market share, that translates into major shift–from 3.9 percent in 2009 to 22.7 percent in 2010.

The release of the Kyocera Echo on Monday is only a small part of Sprint’s commitment to 4G and Android this year, executives are saying. While declining to be specific, 70 percent of the phones released in 2011 would run on Google’s mobile operating system, and at least 20 of them would be 4G-capable.

Sprint was one of the first carriers to commit to 4G, announcing its plans to use WiMAX back in 2006, although the rollout did not occur in earnest until last year. The company believes its commitment to 4G is one of the reasons the carrier was able to stop hemorrhaging customers in 2010.

For those of you still sitting on the bench about if you’d like to purchase the Samsung Galaxy Tab, now might be your best shot at grabbing it at its cheapest. You can now pick up the Samsung Galaxy Tab direct from T-Mobile for $249.99. You’ll of course need to pick up a 2 year agreement with the Tab, locking you in directly past the incoming wave of Gingerbread tablets this Summer.

You can head back to one of our reviews of the Samsung Galaxy Tab here or on SlashGear if you wish, we’ve gotten our hands on at least three different Tabs from three different carriers, and T-Mobile is definitely one of them. What do you think, Community, is it time to pick up a Tab, or is it way too late?

If it’s right on time, head over to T-Mobile now!

With the Inspire 4G, the Atrix phone/laptop hybrid and the Samsung Infuse 4G, AT&T now thinks it has gone from worst to best in its Android offering.

Talking to a technology company CMO is often like reading a press release, but AT&T CMO David Christopher is better than most and did shine some light on a new pride in their Android line today.

NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of AT&T Inc. on Thursday said the company will start “very aggressively” marketing smart phones based on Google Inc.’s Android software now that it will no longer be the exclusive carrier for Apple Inc.’s iPhone (News – Alert) in the U.S.

So far, Verizon Wireless, AT&T’s chief competitor, has been the biggest supporter of Android. But it will start selling the iPhone on Feb. 10, and is likely to shift resources away from Android.