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It looks like US Cellular is finally getting a decent BlackBerry handset in its line-up with the Bold 9650. Adding to the Pearl Flip and Curve 8530, US Cellular will be offering the 9650 for $230 with a contract. Not too shabby for a phone that runs on a pretty solid EV-DO Rev. A network…
Good news, the original Motorola DROID is back on sale with Verizon Wireless! After its recent removal from Verizon’s online website, the Android handset is making a surprise encore appearance. The reasons for its re-appearance are unknown but one could speculate that Verizon may have discovered some remaining inventory sitting in warehouses or maybe even…
There is nothing more precious to most of us than our smartphone privacy. And you’d think that the iPhone might be rather impervious to getting its data siphoned right out of it via hardware. But forget about those malicious apps that can steal data right off of your phone or what Steve Jobs & Co.…
Looks like salomandrin is up to his old tricks again. If you have a BlackBerry Bold 9650 in-hand, and are looking forward to OS 6… give this video a gander. In the video, he takes you through the new operating system, and shows it off for you to enjoy. You’ll get a walkthrough the basic…
The Economic Daily News, a financial newspaper out of Taiwan, is reporting that Apple is prepping the iPad Mini for a holiday launch. Their inside information comes directly from the Taiwanese supply chain which will be producing the components and assembling the device. According to its sources, the touchscreen for the 7-inch Apple tablet will be…
No, it’s not an OS 6 leak, and no, it’s not for the BlackBerry Torch. The leak, er, actually I should say OFFICIAL OS release I have for you this evening is 5.0.0.807 for the Curve 8350i. If you’re still rockin’ the ever popular 8300 Curve series, in particular, the 8350i… then you may want…
With Apple eating Nokia’s lunch at the premium end of the market, and Google stealing developer mind share with their open source Android operating system, and the South Korean duo LG and Samsung biting the Finnish company’s feet in the low end and emerging markets, what does Nokia decide to do? Release a dumb phone…
Ericsson, the most popular supplier of wireless infrastructure equipment, has recently published some statistics including this doozy: 225,000 terabytes of data were moved every month over wireless networks during Q2 of this year. The Swedish firm goes on to say that mobile data traffic has tripled compared to this time last year and that it’s…
Pocket Devil just got its iPad version called Pocket Devil HD – Hell Yeah!, which is not only optimized for the bigger screen of Apple’s tablet, but also much better, packing a more torture methods and larger assortment of weaponry. Here’s the official pitch (from the press release): Upon entering Pocket Devil HD – Hell…
After many delays, which Qualcomm didn’t even mention until yesterday, the Snapdragon QSD8672 is officially going to start shipping next quarter and is expected to be in devices starting as early as Christmas, but more realistically Q1 2011, according to Computer World. The QSD8672 is made on a 45 nanometer process and features 2 cores,…