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We had heard last week that the ho-hum BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 would be wriggling its way to Bell, and now internal documents are showing an August 12 launch date. From what we’ve gathered, the BlackBerry 9300 (code-named Kepler) will be a microscopic upgrade to the 8500 series, offering the same screen, same camera, same…
Last week, RIM kicked off a closed beta for BlackBerry Software 6.0, which will be the PC counterpart to their brand new handheld operating system. Some enterprising haxxorz have freed the Desktop Software from its NDA-bound prison, and are now sharing it with the world – go ahead and get downloading at any of the…
Following up on its craft and trade update last month, the location-based check-in game for iPhone, MyTown, has just become a little more interesting. Instead of just checking-in to real-world businesses and claiming them as your own in an online game of Monopoly, you can now use your phone’s camera to scan barcodes and check…
The Thumbplay music service has updated their Android app so even if you’re out of wireless coverage to stream music, you can cache particular songs locally on your phone to listen to whenever you want. Thumbplay still syncs up with your desktop and web collection wirelessly, and offers iTunes playlist importing and a music discovery…
Flickr’s iPhone app, launched in September, has been updated to version 1.2 so you can upload HD videos taken on the iPhone 4’s 5 megapixel camera, and share posted pictures to Twitter. Additionally, the app takes advantage of iOS 4’s new multitasking abilities, letting you upload stuff in the background while you’re doing something else.…
As you might have guessed from Bell’s banners, the iPhone 4 is arriving in Canada and elsewhere in the world this Friday, July 30th. It’s already out in the U.S., France, Germany, UK, and Japan, but other countries scheduled for launch on the 30th. are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,…
For those overwhelmed with the flood of miniature mobile computers that can do a million-and-one things you don’t really need, there are still basic phones coming out. Verizon has just launched the Samsung Haven, which looks like it’ll handle all of the texting and calling you could need in a dated recognizable form factor. In…
RIM said they’d have OS 6 ready for this summer, and the BlackBerry 9800 seems to be the flagship that will spearhead the launch. The casing and keyboard for the device is now available to purchase, which is a sure sign that production in Waterloo is well underway. Red, white, and black versions are in…
An analyst from Frost & Sullivan is claiming that RIM’s 4G BlackBerry (code-named Triton) will be launched in December, include 4G and “a 5.0 megapixel camera with both front and back imaging”. Whether that means it’s one camera that swivels kind of like on the Notion Ink Adam, or if it’s just poorly worded and…
A picture of a new BlackBerry running OS 6 has bubbled up, potentially joining the ranks of the 9800 slider, the 9670 clamshell, and the Storm 3 in RIM’s upcoming lineup. The 9780 could easily round out RIM’s introduction of their next generation operating system with a more traditional form factor. As far as hard…