RIM announced their first quarter financial results last night, boasting a 24% increase of revenue since last year’s results, and marking the milestone of the 100 millionth BlackBerry sold. Here are the numbers, straight from the report (full PDF here): Revenue grew 24% over the same quarter last year to $4.24 billion Earnings per share…
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T-Mobile teases us about the Samsung Vibrant
Well, it looks like we were right for predicting the Samsung Galaxy S would land on T-Mobile as the Vibrant, as the fourth-largest U.S. carrier has just thrown up a mysterious teaser page for the new Android handset. The teaser page has a countdown clock (about two days left, folks) before we get some more…
For a Good FaceTime, Call Apple With Your iPhone 4
So you got your new iPhone 4 yesterday after waiting in line for several hours, or maybe it came in the day before because you were one of the lucky sons-o’-guns that were able to get through the ordering system and had it home delivered. Either way, there is now a multitude of fantastic features…
Verizon Wireless Dropping the ‘Wireless’ for Brand Change?
Verizon Wireless is reportedly pulling a Sam Cooke and hinting that a change is gonna come. The wireless carrier is rumored to be dropping “Wireless” from its name (for its wireless division, of course) and going by, well, just “Verizon”. There have been a lot of rumors going around lately about odd activity going on…
Motorola Droid X Gets Stripped Down to the Screws
Ah, there’s nothing like gadget gore porn. The Motorola Droid X is the victim in question and it has been stripped all the way down to the screws to reveal its innards. How does this benefit you? Well, if you’re the type inclined to perform DIY repairs, or you jut like to tinker with little…
Motorola Droid X Available for Pre-Order at Best Buy
Do you know what I love most about buying phones at Best Buy? They’re either cheaper than what carrier retail outlets are offering or, at the very least, there aren’t any annoying mail-in-rebates to deal with. The Motorola Droid X is one of the hottest and most anticipated Android devices right now, and you can…
Google Hits Remote Kill Switch for Two Android Apps
A quick look in the Android Market sometimes makes me wonder whether Google just lets developers go willy nilly on what apps they can create and submit. While Android now has over 50,000 applications, there are so many that seem entirely pointless and it makes it hard when I’m just browsing for cool apps. Although…
TELUS Going Live with the 8GB iPhone 3GS
If you’re in Canada, and have been scared off with all of the recent iPhone 4 Antenna mumbo jumbo, there are a ton of other options for you. One such option comes to us from TELUS. They’ve just announced the Black version of the 8GB iPhone 3GS. The 3GS will replace the 3G (available now…
BlackBerry 9670 Clamshell, Four Android Phones, and More Coming to U.S. Cellular
U.S. Cellular has just outlined their plans for device launches for the rest of the year, among them the Samsung Acclaim, HTC Desire, and a few more mysterious ones. For Android, there’s “another highly-anticipated Samsung device and an LG device with a large touch screen and slide-out, ergonomically-designed QWERTY keyboard” (maybe the Galaxy S and…
Sprint Expects Android 2.2 to Hit HTC EVO 4G ‘In the Near Future’
Sprint customers who are all over the Android scene are usually dead last in getting Android udates, but that’s only because both the HTC Hero and EVO 4G have Sense UI. And we all know how long it can take an Android device with a custom skin to get an upgrade. The only Android handset…



