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RIM used the big event to announce the new BlackBerry OS 7.1 and BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0. In addition, Verizon Wireless picked-up the BlackBerry Curve 9370. And that’s about out. Tom and Yoeau, who were running around with a camera, weren’t too impressed with RIM’s booth, hence we only have few photos to share. And…
Verizon announced few cool devices at the CES — including the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX, Motorola DROID 4, LG Spectrum, Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, BlackBerry Curve 9370 and 4G hotspot ZTE Jetpack — all of which are at display at their red booth. Moreover, some of their earlier announced products were there as well like…
We know Huawei is working to get an even bigger slice of the U.S. market, and in that sense they’ve launched the Ascend P1S, the world’s thinnest dual core Android smartphone. Moreover, they’re also showing some of their older products at CES, including the popular Ascend II smartphone which is available from multiple carriers, as…
ZTE is still far from a household name in the U.S. While they do offer some consumer products — like the brand new 4G hotspot ZTE Jetpack from Verizon Wireless — they’re still far other handset makers. That said, they did show some decent products at the CES, though I can’t say we were that…
Nokia had an impressive CES 2012, as its Lumia 900 was the highlight of what turned out to be a show with a strong mobile focus. We’ve already shown you some hands-on time with the latest devices but we wanted to give you a taste of what Nokia’s booth was like at CES 2012.
According to a new report from Juniper Research, the global redemption rate of mobile coupons will average at over 8% by 2016, representing an eightfold increase over the best paper coupons campaigns. The secret for this growth lies in the North American and Western European markets where users are now beginning to follow the same…
SEGA is bringing its popular Virtua Tennis franchise to the Android Market. The game, called Virtua Tennis Challenge, will be unveiled at the CES in Las Vegas next week and will deliver a ton of entertainment for on-the-go users. Here’s a snippet from SEGA’s official announcement: Virtua Tennis Challenge has been designed specifically for mobile…
India-based Dexetra is teaming-up with Q&A service ChaCha to create a “revolutionary element” to the Siri-like Iris app for Android. As a result, the popular voice-powered Q&A application will now include ChaCha’s vast database of questions and answers, allowing instant responses to inquiries asked by users for free. Moreover, this partnership is touted to allow…
So you like the fancy Porsche Design P’9981 BlackBerry but don’t want to spend a small fortune on one? No problem, you can pretend your BlackBerry 9900 or 9930 looks like a device designed by Porsche’s designers. Simply install the Porsche theme and tell all your buddies your vanilla BlackBerry is just as powerful as…
Nokia announced a new Symbian Anna smartphone in China that’s ready for NFC-based contactless payments. In addition, the device marked as 801T rocks a 4-inch ClearBlack LCD touchscreen, China Mobile-friendly TD-SCDMA connectivity, 8-megapixel “full-focus” camera with 720p video recording support on the back, VGA front-facing camera, 8GB of built-in storage, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, 256MB of…