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The pieces are starting to fall into place for the upcoming Microsoft Windows Phone 7 and we just got a sneak at what will fill up the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. On Twitter, a Microsoft employee showed off a few Windows Phone 7 testing apps and names and this includes the usual suspects like YouTube…
Just as we were wrapping up for the weekend, Saudi Arabia still had BlackBerry service, despite an impending ban. RIM made a lot of talk about not doing any particular governments any favours, but word from Saudi Arabia’s Communications and Information Technology Commission suggests that three servers (one for each carrier) are being put in…
Samsung and AT&T jointly announced the messaging-centric Flight II (A927) and the touchscreen Eternity II today. The specifications for the Flight II, successor to the original Flight, were outed by Samsung last week and include: Full horizontal sliding QWERTY keyboard Touchscreen display TouchWiz UI with three customizable menu screens with drag-n-drop widgets Full HTML browser 2MP camera with camcorder…
It looks like a good chunk of info surfaced regarding Verizon Wireless’ hardware plans for the end of 2010 and 2011. There are also some plans for 2012, too. Now, we’ve seen a small deal about Verizon’s LTE plans for the next few years, but info on hardware was pretty scant. Now it looks like…
We’ve heard about the BlackBerry tablet supposedly coming to market in November as the BlackPad, and now we have a price point from Taiwanese OEM Quanta. The BlackPad is tentatively priced at $499 US according to rumours, and Quanta will ship two million units this year, and eight million in 2011. Size estimates have ranged…
A rumor out of Digitimes suggests that the Apple iPad will receive a modest upgrade in 2011. According to Digitimes Research senior analyst Mingchi Kuo, the next generation Apple tablet will include a Cortex-A9 processor and 512MB of RAM. These improvements will boost the speed and double the available RAM of the current iPad model.…
Search within the depths of your memory if the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 doesn’t ring a bell because it’s soon coming to AT&T. Remember that handset now? The one Sony Ericsson unveiled in November of last year? The handset that is virtually ancient compared to the Samsung Captivate and iPhone 4 on the same carrier?…
Warning: This article regarding Texas Instruments and the ARM Eagle processor design is going to be a little technical and it’s not going to impact you as a consumer for at least a year. You can be forgiven for not making it to the bottom or even closing your browser right now. Texas Instruments has…
After a variety of appearances among carriers, the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 has been announced by RIM, complete with compatibility with their new operating system (though it’s launching with the same ol’ OS 5). This is awesome news since otherwise, the BlackBerry 9300 was shaping up to be a complete and utter rehash of the…
Ever hear of CitySourced? No? Well, we received a note from the good developers over there just a little while ago… informing us about the new availability of an Android and BlackBerry flavor of their mobile app. Woohoo! Before I touch on that, here’s a quick overview of what CitySourced has to offer. CitySourced is…