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Sprint to vote on SoftBank offer during June 12th stockholder meeting
SoftBank is continuing its public campaign as it tries to win the favor of Sprint. After a war of words between SoftBank and Dish erupted this week, SoftBank is back on the offensive and encouraging Sprint stockholders to approve its deal. Sprint will be voting on the merger during a special stockholders’ meeting that will be held on June 12, 2013 in Overland Park, Kansas. According to a SoftBank statement, the SEC has completed its review of the proxy statement/prospectus regarding the Sprint-SoftBank deal. Now that this milestone has been … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Report: Amazon is considering its own smartphone
When Amazon released the Kindle Fire tablet, everybody was always a bit curious about whether Amazon would eventually release a smartphone as the next logical step. As it turns out, the company does has a smartphone going through some private testing at the moment, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The parts suppliers who prefer to remain anonymous say that Amazon is in fact ramping up to begin mass production of these — we’ll say Kindle phones — for late this year or early next year. The … Read more
George Tinari
Acer A700 tablet with HD screen now available in Canada for $449.99
Acer’s all-new A700 Android tablet is now available in Canada, where interested folks can get the 32GB model in black or silver for $449.99. That cash gets you one of the best Ice Cream Sandwich tablets released to date that comes with 1920×1200 pixels LED-backlit display and NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. In addition, there’s Dolby Mobile 3, Wi-Fi connectivity, HDMI out, 1GB of RAM, microSD card slot and a powerful 9800mAh battery that provides enough juice to keep the A700 working for up to 10.5 hours. The tablet is … Read more
Dusan Belic
AT&T approached RIM in 2010 about building an iPhone competitor
AT&T apparently asked Research In Motion in 2010 to kindly build a competitor to the iPhone, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The dirty deed took place while Apple’s iPhone was still exclusively available on AT&T in the United States. “We work with all device makers to bring the best products to market for our customers,” AT&T said in a statement. RIM added that the goal was simply to create “a differentiated, unique BlackBerry experience for AT&T customers.” That sounds great from a PR standpoint, but the real … Read more
George Tinari
Juice Mobile: RIM users dominate our network!
Toronto-based Juice Mobile released some Canadian mobile stats based on their publisher ad impression levels. From the infographic we got, you can see that RIM is dominating the picture, accounting for 45% of all the traffic. Apple’s iOS took the second place with 34% of users (3% less than last month) and finally Android is third with 20%, which is 2% more than what it had last month. RIM’s smartphones, including the Torch 9800 and Curve 9300, make up a combined 35% and occupy 6 out of the top 10 … Read more
Dusan Belic
Telmap Navigator now free for Blackberry users in the UK
Telmap Navigator is now available as a free download for Blackberry users in the UK, providing interested folks with local search, mapping and navigation services with in-car navigation with 3D moving maps, voice-guided instructions, a dedicated pedestrian navigation mode, and a postcode business and address search. In addition, the application also allows users to explore their surroundings with access to nearby restaurants, pubs and plenty of activities provided by TripAdvisor, Lonely Planet as well as ultra-local content from companies like Barclays Cycle and Ordnance Survey. Of course, social component also … Read more
Dusan Belic
Samsung Galaxy S III caught in the wild again
Ok now we think we have the real photo of the Samsung Galaxy SIII. As you can see from the image above, the model number GT-I9300 will come with a rounded glass, small home button and two touch-based buttons at the bottom. Moreover, it is said that the new Galaxy phone will come with a 12-megapixel camera on the back, super-thin body (thinner than the Galaxy S II), while Android 4.0.4 will run the show out of box. In addition, there are some sort of LED lights below the screen, … Read more
Dusan Belic
Verizon roadmap shows ICS updates landing soon on Razr, Razr Maxx and Rezound in May
Ice Cream Sandwich is coming soon for select Android phones on Verizon Wireless. Spotted on Reddit by The Verge, this leaked screen grab appears to be a roadmap detailing Verizon’s upcoming software updates. Of interest to Android customers are the first four entries on the sheet from the week of April 24, 2012. The heading on this page suggests the HTC Rezound, Motorola Razr, Motorola Razr Maxx and both the Xoom 3G and 4G are scheduled to get their first official taste of Ice Cream Sandwich next month. According to the leaked document, the … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Canada: Bell’s and Virgin’s Blackberry Torch 9800 gets 6.0.0.706 update
While most BlackBerry users are enjoying BlackBerry OS 7, some are still stuck to the old version of the operating system, those with the Torch 9800 being one of them. Now Canada’s Virgin Mobile and Bell (along with RIM) released firmware updates to make the experience at least a bit better for owners of the popular BlackBerry slider phone. After the update, your Torch will run OS version 6.0.0.706 (up from v6.0.0.534), fixing a number of bugs along the way. We don’t know what exactly is changed and frankly – … Read more
Dusan Belic
Acer Iconia A510 brings Tegra 3, Android 4.0, and more for under $500
Acer has unveiled its next-generation tablet, and that tablet would be the Iconia A510. The tablet itself is rocking the NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, Android Ice Cream Sandwich, and more, all packaged in a price that’s below $500. While it’s hard to say anything bad about the tablet itself, in the coming months, we’re going to see this tablet repackaged in many different ways from different manufacturers. In a way, this tablet is very cookie-cutter, much like the Honeycomb tablets we saw last year that basically all shared the same … Read more
Blake Stimac
Acer Iconia Tab A700 with Ice Cream Sandwich slated for launch at CES 2012
We expect tablets at CES 2012 and a new report from NoMobile says Acer will be bringing some Ice Cream Sandwich goodness in the form of a new tablet. Be on the look out for the Iconia Tab A700, which will serve as a big brother to the A200, which has already been unveiled. The A700 will accordingly sport a 10.1-inch display with a very high resolution of 1920 x 1200. It will also have a new NVIDIA Tegra 3 chip, a quad-core powerhouse with the potential to clock at up … Read more