T-Mobile has introduced its first phone on the carrier to take advantage of HSPA+ network speeds and the successor to the T-Mobile G1. This phone has announced as a page on its Web site, but that page doesn’t give many hard details about the device.

T-Mobile will “break new ground as the first smartphone designed to run at 4G speeds on our new HSPA+ network.” Basically, they are branding HSPA+ phone as the company 4G network that will compete with Sprint’s own 4G offering, WiMax. Both AT&T and Verizon plan to launch LTE, their own 4G networks, in 2011. In our own nation-wide data-speed testing, HSPA+ gave us very good speeds.

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