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PapayaMobile is looking to get Android developers noticed. If you’re a developer, or even just a casual smartphone user, being overwhelmed with tens of thousands of apps makes it difficult to get attention or to pick out some decent apps. PapayaMobile has now launched Android App of the Day which–you guessed it–features new apps every…
Verizon Palm Pixi Plus owners take heed as webOS 1.4.5 is slated to hit your handset in the next few days. Reports are flowing out of the forums that confirm the update has received the rubber stamp of approval from Verizon and it is gradually appearing on handsets around the country. Palm also released the…
Sony Ericsson will launch the A8i handset for the largest carrier in the most heavily populated place on the planet. China Mobile will be home to Sony Ericsson’s first TD-SCDMA smartphone, the A8i, and will be featuring the carrier’s OMS (Open Mobile System) 2.0 platform, which uses Google’s code and is like the Chinese version…
The BlackBerry 8980, code-named Atlas, is something we’ve been hearing about for nearly a year now without any official announcement, but has shown up recently bearing China Mobile branding. Considering the BlackBerry 8980 will be amounting to little more than a Bold 9700 with a Curve keyboard and minus the 3G, maybe it’s not a…
If the original Rogers offering of the BlackBerry Curve 9300 in a silver/chrome finish didn’t do it for you… Perhaps the new model that has just been introduced will peak your interest. As we suspected, the boys and girls in red have launched another variant of the 9300, this time in ‘Smokey Violet’. Of course,…
It’s back-to-school time, and the good folks at Rogers have thought it best to run a new contest. There’s some pretty cool stuff up-for-grabs (5 big prizes) for the winners. What can you win? Let’s take a look: First off is one brand new HP laptop with Rogers’ Rocket mobile internet built-in. The laptop has…
According to The Wall Street Journal, Huawei, the Chinese brand that does both infrastructure equipment and dabbles in devices, will announce a high end Android 2.2 device on Thursday that was jointly developed with Google. That’s a huge win if it’s true, considering the only other device that Google ever admitted to having a say…
Just thought I’d throw out some dates to remember. First off there’s Nokia World, due to take place on September 14th and 15th in London. You bet your sweet ass they’ll be devices announced, and we’re hoping the leaked N9 that we saw earlier this month is one of them. If not at Nokia World…
If you’re in Canada, and Bell is your carrier of choice, looks like there’s a new promo on offer you may want to take advantage of. On now until September 16th, when you pop into a Bell retail location, you can get $75 off a new smartphone, or $50 off a regular old feature, er,…
It was back in May when we first spotted at that point still unannounced Motorola i897 Amphora clamshell and now it’s here. Actually, it’s in parts of Latin America where NII Holdings launched the phone under the name Motorola i897 Ferrari Special Edition — Mexico and Brazil are the first markets to get this Ferrari-branded…