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Time for some quick BlackBerry OS news. Thankfully, what I have for you this morning isn’t a leak, but an actual OFFICIAL release. That’s right, OS 5.0.0.862 has gone all official on Vodafone for the Bold 9700. If you’re on this device, you can gobble up the update right here. You may recall that 5.0.0.862…
Ian Shapira from The Washington Post writes a story that we’ve been reading quarter after quarter, year after year, that young people no longer use their mobile phones to talk, but instead bang out text messages at a ferocious pace. The format of these articles are usually the same, highlighting parent’s gripes with their children’s…
On social news site Reddit, a member by the name of NFLX claims to be an employee at Netflix and that the company is actively hiring Android developers. Netflix, the service that ships DVDs to your home and helps you avoid the weird people who go to video rental stores to keep on checking out…
Below we have a video recorded by Windows Phone 24/7 that purportedly showcases the HTC Schubert. Its funky design is mostly metal, but wrapped in rubber at several slanted angles, most likely to increase signal reception. There’s practically no information associated with this device, except a hunch from the leaker that it will be one…
The Nokia 5800, one of Nokia’s most popular touch screen models since it was the first touch screen device out of Finland, plus it was super cheap at launch, has just been updated to firmware version 51. The official change log states an improved Mail for Exchange experience, improved video calls, updated web browser, and…
OK Canadians, listen up… I’ve got a decent BlackBerry Torch 9800 rumor for ya. We’ve known for a little while now that Canada’s ‘Big 3’ (Bell, Rogers and TELUS) have confirmed the Torch will be available on their respective networks. So far, we’ve had no launch date or pricing info to release… but of course,…
The Verizon Motorola DROID 2 hit the advertisement section of select Sunday newspapers in a Verizon-branded insert that advertised the Android handset as “coming soon”. Verizon is taking an unusual marketing strategy with this upcoming flagship handset and is advertising it in flyers and the summer catalog prior to making the handset official (unless you count…
Frash, the application that brought Flash to the iPad, has been ported to the iPhone 4 and other iOS 4 devices. The application was tweaked for the suite of iOS 4 devices by Comex, a notable hacker from the dev team who helped launch the original Spirit and web-based JailbreakMe tools for the iOS devices. This ported…
It’s been an incrementally painful journey for those of you waiting for the Motorola Droid 2, and it’s largely thanks to Best Buy leaks. First, there were the pictured cases online which revealed the fact that the mega-retailer would be carrying the Verizon smartphone. No surprises there. Then cases actually started arriving, which signaled the…
Another rumor strongly suggests that Apple and Verizon Wireless are gearing up to launch a CDMA version of the iPhone 4 in January 2011. According to sources in the overseas manufacturing supply chain, Apple has reportedly ordered millions of Qualcomm CDMA chipsets for a December production run of the highly anticipated Verizon Wireless iPhone 4.…