There’s a new announcement from Samsung and T-Mobile: the Samsung Katalyst will support the T-Mobile HotSpot @HomeSM service. Of course, this will be in addition to the extra fee added on a customers bill for the @Home service:

“Samsung and T-Mobile USA today announced the availability of the new Samsung Katalyst (SGH-t739). The Katalyst adds a stylish, slider design to the growing line-up of phones that support T-Mobile HotSpot @HomeSM service.

With built-in support for T-Mobile HotSpot @Home, the Samsung Katalyst provides customers with great wireless coverage when placing calls over a home Wi-Fi network and at nearly 8,500 T-Mobile HotSpot locations nationwide. When customers leave home or a T-Mobile HotSpot, their calls are passed onto T-Mobile’s wireless network, and the same is true for passing calls from T-Mobile’s network onto Wi-Fi networks. In addition, with the purchase of a HotSpot @Home add-on plan, customers can enjoy the freedom of unlimited, nationwide calling over Wi-Fi.”

Unlimited nationwide calling over Wi-Fi, but you need to pay extra for it. As opposed to the Unlimited nationwide calling via cellular that you could already be paying for with some of T-Mobiles plans. I’m scratching my head here for a reason to get this.

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