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No doubt some fellow Canadians have been glaring lustily south of the border at AT&T’s iPhone 4, but don’t worry, it’s coming to Canada soon. At the WWDC launch, Steve Jobs promised the Canadian market would be ready in July. Accordingly, this shot shows that Rogers’ internal web training for sales reps now includes options…
Following on the Fujitsu / Toshiba mobile merger, reports have bubbled up saying that they’ve already started on their first handset, which is headed to Japan’s NTT DoCoMo and will be running Android. Little beyond that is known, but the platform choice is significant, given Toshiba had already put significant time and effort into some…
RIM has just posted another video running through the upcoming BlackBerry OS 6. It’s mostly nothing we haven’t seen before, but there are a few new tidbits. Individual apps seem to get their own home on the today screen, so you can see Twitter and Facebook items separately. Visual Voicemail makes its first appearance, which…
Another Android phone from Motorola is coming through the pipes, though it likely won’t wow anyone as much as the Droid X. Instead, the Motorola WX445 is aiming for the budget crowd with a light battery, smaller 2.5-3″ screen, and was described as a cheaper-looking Palm Pre Plus, and “not a very impressive phone” overall.…
We’ve been hearing about a project from RIM called BlackBerry Shield for some time, first in March, then again a few weeks ago. The rumours were all true, and RIM has announced the private beta of what they’re calling BlackBerry Protect. It exists as both a web service and an on-device application, and can help…
Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar is claiming that the upcoming BlackBerry tablet will include two cameras, one rear-facing and one forward-facing for video calling. To power such graphically intensive activity, Kumar says the tablet will use a 1 GHz processor, which would be the first time RIM used something that fast. He also claimed…
We’ve seen a few stills and a staged demo of RIM’s Webkit browser to be launched with BlackBerry OS 6, but now we’ve got a slightly more in-depth tour of the new BlackBerry browser The start screen looks a little rearranged, but all of the parts of the original browser are still there (search, history,…
Pre-empting the Gravity Touch coming later this month and following up on the Wave launched on Rogers, Samsung recently released the Entro Wave on Bell. We’re all pretty familiar with the Wave by now: it’s Samsung’s first Bada phone, and comes with 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, a 5 megapixel camera with flash and HD…
Coinciding nicely with an ABI report last week, infrastructure giant Ericsson has revealed the the number of mobile subscribers has hit 5 billion as of yesterday. The same study claims 2 million additions are made every day, more than 500 million of those subscribers are on 3G, and by their forecast, we should hit 50…
I just made a new best friend: it’s called BerryReader, which is an app for BlackBerry that just came out today and plugs right into Google Reader with full two-way sync. Read items match up, you can star stuff for later retrieval, change flags and tags, and even drop Likes on the good stories. The…