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RIM has officially taken the wraps off of the BlackBerry Curve 9220 and 9320 devices, rumored to be coming soon to the US and UK markets. The Curve 9320 features RIM’s socially-driven BlackBerry OS 7.1, the Curve’s customary 2.44″ 320 x 240 display, a 3.2 megapixel camera, 1,450mAh battery, FM Radio, microSD slot, and QWERTY…
RIM has just been granted a patent filed in 2009 that is sure to make “V for Vendetta” fans squeal with delight. RIM’s patent is for an angled keyboard that features trapezoidal keys as opposed to the customary squarish shape featured on most of RIM’s smartphones. The new keyboard layout would give users a higher…
It’s official. The next in the EVO line of devices, the HTC EVO 4G LTE, will be hitting Sprint stores on May 18th for $199.99, in line with previous rumors. Of course, unless you’re in one of the handful of cities that will be getting LTE service this quarter, you’ll be relegated to Sprint’s worst-in-class…
The battle continues between Proview and Apple over who owns the iPad name in China. Proview Technologies, a now defunct maker of computer displays who still exists as a subsidiary of Proview International Holdings, Ltd, claims ownership of the trademark, a fact seemingly confirmed by a lower court ruling in a Chinese court. A higher…
Bluegrass Wireless is a very small regional carrier in Central Kentucky. While we normally hesitate to bat an eye at these ultra-regional carriers, Bluegrass Wireless has announced today that they will start selling the iPhone 4S to customers starting May 18th. The phones will start at $149 for the 16GB model, and go up to…
It seems some Lumia 900 devices have been infected with a case of the Wonkas. As you probably recall from the movie, Violet Beauregarde chewed a piece of experimental blueberry gum, then whimsically ballooned into a bright blue blueberry balloon. Some Lumia 900 devices must have been given the tour of the chocolate factory as…
The FCC is getting serious about providing high-speed mobile broadband connections to rural areas. The agency has begun accepting bids to bring 3G and 4G services to parts of the country that have been ignored by major carriers, and is offering as much as $300 million to assist in the development costs of these networks.…
When RIM showed off the camera enhancements built into BlackBerry 10, many in the tech community were impressed. After all, the technology takes successive photos, and allows you to pick parts of the image from each photo and merge it into one finished product, which can come in quite handy if one of the people…
If you spend it, they will come. That’s the message App Promo received loud and clear in their First Annual Development Survey. A whopping 52% of developers have absolutely no money set aside for marketing their applications, and the same percentage spends 5% of their time or less promoting their applications. This is despite 91% of…
Whispers of Target’s decision to stop selling the Amazon Kindle line of devices made their way around the internet last night. The rumors started when a source close to the matter told The Verge that the Minneapolis-based retailer would stop selling the line due to a “conflict of interest,” presumably due to the fact that Target…