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The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet couldn’t very well compete with the iPad without something to match iBooks, right? RIM has partnered up with Kobo to provide an electronic novel marketplace for the PlayBook out of the box when it launches early next year. Kobo offers a library of some 2 million-odd titles, ranging in price from…
It looks like some lucky bastards customers who pre-ordered their T-Mobile G2 are beginning to get their packages a little early. Many others (ahem, yours truly) have to wait until tomorrow before they can get a taste, but there’s now a video unboxing, and a picture of what HSPA+ can offer you. First up, the…
What the heck is U.S. Cellular up to? The sixth-largest U.S. carrier is teasing something it’s calling The Belief Project and it could something relatively big. U.S. Cellular has a countdown clock going for an announcement for the first day of October and the text on the site suggests it will be making some changes…
For those of you who actually remember or carry the Samsung Beam, we’ve got some bad news for you. It turns out that the pico-projecting phone will not be receiving the Android 2.2 update. So get yourself a Galaxy S already! Why would the Samsung Beam not get another update when it was just released…
Yesterday we had heard from one RIM VP that BlackBerry smartphones would, in the long haul, be loaded up with the QNX operating system running on their recently-announced PlayBook tablet. Though that one source hardly locked down the possibility of such a switch, some fellow bloggers have prodded VPs on the matter and yielded comments…
Sprint and Motorola are teaming up to release a handset for rugged business users and the ES400 is ready for work. The Sprint Motorola ES400 is powered by the Windows Embedded Handheld technologies, which also means it has Windows Mobile 6.5.3. Other features include: – Customizable Motorola Enterprise User Interface (MEUI) makes business-critical information and…
It looks like Samsung kept up to its word and now the much-wanted GPS fix is online for Vibrant users. It’s available through Samsung’s Kies program, which allows you to sync files from your computer to your phone. All you need to do is download the program, and once it’s installed, it should give you…
In a long-ranging interview with the Seattle Times, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed the company’s mobile strategy with the upcoming Windows Phone 7. The Microsoft CEO said that the company just wants to make sure that customers are excited to get Windows Phone 7 devices when these launch in a few weeks. It will worry…
An overlooked announcement here at DevCon was the release of BlackBerry Theme Studio 6, screenshots of which had leaked a few weeks ago. Even though the tool might be just a little overshadowed by the announcement of the BlackBerry PlayBook, the new studio will allow theme developers to finally start tweaking the BlackBerry Torch 9800’s…
Faster Android boot times seem to be all the rage these days, and who can say that’s a bad thing? Once we caught a glimpse of how fast the HTC Desire Z can boot, it didn’t take long to hear that the fast boot-up times will be available in an upcoming version of CyanogenMod. Well,…