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The official BlackBerry blog interviewed the Director of User Experience Research, Joey Benedek, to chat about changes to the home screen in OS 6. We’ve already seen a lot of it and sussed most of the details out for ourselves, but it’s worth seeing what RIM considers to be the important parts. For one, they’re…
T-Mobile is teasing us with a page about its upcoming smartphone with full HSPA+ capabilities but the page’s code reveals more than T-Mobile may have wanted. The good folks at Tmonews said the code referred to the first HSPA+ device as the “Vanguard,” which has also been known as the HTC Vision or G1 Blaze.…
Everyone and their mom is jumping into the check-in game, but CardStar integrating location-based services makes a ton of sense. With the CardStar 3.0 Apple iPhone app, the company is working with Foursquare to enable users to check in to nearby stores. It eventually plans to work with other location-based game providers like Gowalla and…
Can you hear me now? If you were in parts of Manhattan yesterday, the answer may have been no as a Verizon equipment failure disrupted Big Red’s hardline services, as well as some of AT&T’s wireless services. According to the Wall Street Journal: A “digital cross-connect,” or a box that directs network traffic, was knocked…
The Android-powered Dell Streak is tantalizingly close and the company is taking its message to YouTube to answer a few questions about software upgrades and carrier compatibility. The device features a 5-inch touchscreen with cellular capabilities. At that range, it’s kind of a tablet and kind of a smartphone – maybe a “smarblet?” The device…
HTC has announced four phones for China, some of which may seem familiar to those elsewhere in the world. The Wildfire, Desire, Tianxi (HD2), and Tianyi (looks like a Wildfire with a trackball) will all be coming to China Mobile under HTC’s name, nixing the Dopod brand HTC had traditionally used in the area. In…
So the government made some exemptions to the DMCA yesterday and you went to jailbreak your Apple iPhone almost instantly. Knowing well enough that it was no longer illegal, the jailbreak shouldn’t be too much of a problem, right? Apple says you can go right ahead, but it won’t supoort the practice at all, even…
The FCC is finally reaching out to consumers and helping with a better understanding of the wireless industry and gadgets. You’ll typically see info all over the web with FCC filings and rulings on certain matters, and while they’re self-explanatory sometimes, there are cases when they might leave you scratching your head. Hopefully those days…
Rumor had it a day or two ago that Koodo Mobile was going to launch some new plans and add-ons. While the rumor was to be taken with a grain of salt, I popped open the Koodo website this morning to see the very same plans and add-ons in full effect. Cool beans! With new…
We had heard last week that the ho-hum BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 would be wriggling its way to Bell, and now internal documents are showing an August 12 launch date. From what we’ve gathered, the BlackBerry 9300 (code-named Kepler) will be a microscopic upgrade to the 8500 series, offering the same screen, same camera, same…