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If you were hoping that your BlackBerry PlayBook would be running Android apps by now, I apologize for being the bearer of bad news. According to a new rumor, the “late summer” plan by RIM to get Android apps onto its tablet has been delayed until late fall. Some users purchased the PlayBook in high…
Facebook has just acquired Push Pop Press, which also includes one of its co-founders, Mike Matas, who happened to work for Apple once upon a time. Matas was a human interface designer at Apple, and he designed a lot of what you see in the iPhone, iPad and even on your Mac. What could this…
RIM has announced two of their long-leaked devices this morning: the BlackBerry Torch 9810 and the BlackBerry Torch 9850/60. Both are confirmed to have 1.2 GHz processors and 768 MB of RAM. As expected, the Torch 9810 will beat out the 9850/60 on local storage with 8 GB versus 4 GB, but that’s more or…
Asus has somewhat strange strategy for its Eee Pad Slider tablet. The Honeycomb device with a side sliding QWERTY keyboard has been delayed in the UK for autumn, while in Poland it’s set to be released later this month. One more country is now included in the story – the Netherlands, where users can now…
Looking to grab yourself the Samsung Droid Charge but don’t want to pay too much of a premium? Amazon used to have a great deal on the device which has just got better. The online retailer is now offering the Android-powered superphone for $99.99 which is $200 less than what Verizon Wireless’ is asking! Sure,…
Samsung’s Android-powered QWERTY slider, SPH-M930, has been cleared by the FCC and is now, at least legally, ready to be sold on the U.S. soil. As far as we know (from that leaked roadmap), the official launch is set for September 2nd, leaving enough room for Boost to train its staff. Specs wise, the M930…
As if we didn’t have enough OS 7 BlackBerry launch dates today. A leaked flyer for Rogers has shown that they’ll be getting the Bold 9900 even earlier than Telus. August 9 is the date listed, which is in exactly one week, though they do say that target is tentative. Yeah, that word is there,…
Hunting around for an iPhone 5 release date? A bunch of dates from Telus have leaked, revealing that Canada is getting the iPhone 5 on October 1. At best, we have an idea of what it might look like, but any other info on the device itself is still the subject of speculation. That same…
Apple has just flipped the switch on iCloud.com and the company’s web apps are now live to join the mobile versions which will be going live with iOS 5 later this Fall. For those of you who have used MobileMe, the new iCloud web apps shouldn’t be much of a surprise, even if these are…
Piper Jaffray recently wrapped up some research on smartphone adoption, revealing that 67% of BlackBerry owners were going to switch to an iPhone next, with only 26% sticking with RIM. By contrast, 94% of iPhone owners were going to get an Apple handset again, while 42% of Android owners would be continuing with the OS…