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San Francisco is actually a hotbed of smartphone activity with multiple mobile startups and everyone and their mom rocking an Apple iPhone, but the city is in a war with the mobile industry over the issue of cell phone radiation. The industry’s trade association, the CTIA, recently filed a lawsuit against San Francisco’s ordinance which…
As you might have guessed from Bell’s banners, the iPhone 4 is arriving in Canada and elsewhere in the world this Friday, July 30th. It’s already out in the U.S., France, Germany, UK, and Japan, but other countries scheduled for launch on the 30th. are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,…
For those overwhelmed with the flood of miniature mobile computers that can do a million-and-one things you don’t really need, there are still basic phones coming out. Verizon has just launched the Samsung Haven, which looks like it’ll handle all of the texting and calling you could need in a dated recognizable form factor. In…
If you’re a die-hard BlackBerry fan and power user, be glad you live where you do — unless you live in the UAE. Apparently, the laws and regulations there don’t play too kindly with BlackBerry services, so there is a chance that the mobile devices may be banned in the future. Part of the reason…
RIM said they’d have OS 6 ready for this summer, and the BlackBerry 9800 seems to be the flagship that will spearhead the launch. The casing and keyboard for the device is now available to purchase, which is a sure sign that production in Waterloo is well underway. Red, white, and black versions are in…
My absolute favorite iPhone Twitter client, Twitterrific, was updated recently. The update brings us up to version 3.0.1, and packs the standard batch of bug fixes, along with timeline shortcuts and enhancements for iOS 4. Here’s the breakdown straight from the developers: New Features Timeline shortcuts (all iPhones) Tap avatar to view profile Tap &…
A quick one here for all of the BlackBerry users out there. If you like to ‘tweet’ on the go, the very popular Twitter client ‘UberTwitter‘ was recently updated to Beta 8, and is available for download. No official changelog has been made available as of yet, but from what I can tell there’s a…
If for some odd reason you’re not convinced the iPhone 4 is coming to Canada at the end of the month, pop into any Best Buy location. By the looks of things, Best Buy Canada is already cranking up the promotions on iPhone 4 accessories, looking to nab those early purchases in anticipation of the…
An analyst from Frost & Sullivan is claiming that RIM’s 4G BlackBerry (code-named Triton) will be launched in December, include 4G and “a 5.0 megapixel camera with both front and back imaging”. Whether that means it’s one camera that swivels kind of like on the Notion Ink Adam, or if it’s just poorly worded and…
This is a spoof video on the Apple iPhone 4 Antennagate issue where Darth Vader calls AT&T and gives them a hard time about the iPhone 4 reception problem, how the carriers in the US don’t work together, and how the new Apple phone is still better than the EVO 4G or Droid X. It’s…