At one of the BlackBerry App World 2.0 launch events, TWiT’s Becky Worley learned that RIM will be leveraging their acquisition of Dash Navigation by crowdsourcing GPS information from BlackBerry users to build a traffic database. Sounds pretty clever, right? Well, by default such data sharing will apparently be enabled, and users will have to…
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Your iPhone 3G Wants iOS 4 Backgrounds? It Can’t Handle iOS 4 Backgrounds!
Yesterday we saw the iOS 4 officially hit the iPhone 3G, 3GS and the iPod touch and folks got to downloading with the quickness. Actually, some users reported that it took several hours to update their iPhone 3G handsets, which is understandably annoying. What’s worse is that they didn’t get all the goodies that the…
Apple iPhone 4 arrives at Wal-Mart, Best Buy
Woo hoo! The Apple iPhone 4 is already landing in some lucky owners’ homes but you can rest assured that the next Apple smartphone has arrived at big-box retailers like Best Buy (the photo above) and Wal-Mart. We all know that the preorder demand for the iPhone 4 was tremendous and it looks like the…
Motorola Droid X Live Wallpaper caught on video
There’s more Droid 2 and Droid X news these days than even the media darling iPhone 4 can muster, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down, for better or for worse. So here’s just a little more Droid-related goodies for you to keep salivating over – the exclusive live wallpaper that will come with…
Motorola Droid X and Droid 2 will use OMAP CPUs, not Snapdragon processors
There’s been so much speculation on the two new Motorola Android devices hitting Verizon soon – the Motorola Droid X and Motorola Droid 2 – and even when we hear “confirmed,” we’re still a bit skeptical. This latest bit of confirmed speculation, however, comes from Droid-Life, and they have been pretty spot on lately. Turns…
Nokia, ‘Heroes’ creator team for augmented reality game
Nokia is teaming up with “Heroes” creator Tim Kring to launch a mobile augmented reality game called “Conspiracy of Good.” Nokia has been talking about this for a while now (I remember sitting down at dinner with Kring last year) and it looks like the game/experience is ready to go. The concept is a bit…
BlackBerry Atlas Captured on Camera Again
The BlackBerry Atlas has been spotted a few times, first at CES, then hanging out next to the 9670 clamshell, and today we have a few more pictures, though we’re still not too sure about the model number, since it’s clearly not the 8910. I’m tempted to think this is the 9700a, which was rumoured…
iPhone 4 Gets Shipped to Lucky Few Today!
Remember when we told you the iPhone 4 could get out a day early and start getting delivered on June 23? Yeah, well, scratch that. It looks like the new Apple smartphones are hitting some lucky customers today! Pics or it didn’t happen, right? Well, the image you see above is allegedly a recently shipped…
AT&T Mark the Spot App Gives Android Users a Chance to Complain, Too
It’s not like iPhone users are the only folks on the AT&T network, so the carrier’s voice and data issues aren’t limited to just those smartphone users. Android is all up in that business now with the Backflip and HTC Aria on AT&T’s network, so it’s only fair that those customers get to bitch about…
Google Voice now open to all [Update: U.S. only]
Google had previously loosened the reigns on Google Voice for students but now the search giant is making its calling service free to everyone, no invite needed. If you’ve never used Google Voice before, it’s essentially a call-forwarding service that enables all your phones to be routed to a specific number. This means your cell…