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With its new Thoughts iPhone app, Jawbone is trying to combine the power of voice with the convenience of text messages. Think of it like text messaging for your voice or something less confusing. The Thoughts iPhone app enables you to send voice messages up to a minute in length. You’ll be able to send…
If you live in Canada, carry a BlackBerry or iPhone, and collect AIR MILES… hold on to your shorts because I have some pretty sweet news for you. The good folks at AIR MILES have just launched their first ever application for BlackBerry and iPhone users. It’s true, no longer do you need to pull…
It looks like we’ll be in a for a bunch of 4G tablets in 2011, as T-Mobile quickly chimed in to say that it, too, will have tablets next year which will be able to utilize its HSPA+ network for high-speed mobile data. In a message sent to us, a T-Mobile spokesperson said: “T-Mobile is…
You might want to call it the “Facebook effect,” as we expected the world’s largest social network entering the check-in space would kill some of the existing services. It looks like Brightkite may be one of the first victims, as it is killing its check-in service to focus on group texting. It’s not bad though,…
If you’re a fan of RPGs then you’re in luck because yesterday Gameloft released its first ever JRPG, Eternal Legacy, and its highly anticipated hack-n-slash RPG, Dungeon Hunter 2 onto the iPhone. Eternal Legacy is Gameloft’s first foray into creating a JRPG, which stands for Japanese Role-Playing Game. The game has everything that a traditional…
While Microsoft is still keeping quiet about how many Windows Phone 7 units it has sold, at least one prominent Wall Street analyst is proclaiming that the debut was “successful.” Charles Wolf of Neeham & Co. didn’t dive into details about the sales figures but did note that there were only 135,000 active users on…
A new report suggests that news-reading on the Apple iPad is helping to kill the print media. It’s not that surprising, as many of us notice this everyday, but the report adds some credibility to our assumptions. The survey is strictly about Apple iPad users and one of the interesting tidbits is: The vast majority…
RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis did a follow-up interview to his talk at the IntoMobile Dive Into Mobile conference the other day to show off the BlackBerry PlayBook a little more and talk about how it’ll do. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out, the BlackBerry PlayBook is RIM’s first tablet, due to…
We all know that the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 will be receiving a not-so-massive update in January but we’re now getting word that Microsoft will give the details for a second update in February at the Mobile World Congress trade show. We know that next month’s update will bring copy and paste to Windows Phone…
The saga of Aron Embry, who will aways be known as the man with the exploding DROID 2, continues to develop. A statement from Motorola given to an employee at PC Magazine claims the explosion was a misunderstanding on the part of Embry. The DROID 2 in question did not explode, it was dropped prior to…