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Wind Mobile has just announced six new handsets leading up to the holiday season. Among them is the first AWS-capable BlackBerry Torch 9810, its touchscreen cousin, the Torch 9860, and the Curve 9360. The Bold 9900 will also be hitting shelves this Thursday for $169 on a WINDtab+ (which offers up to $150 subsidized so…
After the worst service interruption in the company’s history, BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion announced today that they would be offering a bunch of otherwise-premium apps for free to make amends. RIM hopes the bundle worth over $100 will convey that it’s “committed to providing the high standard of reliability [customers] expect, today and in the…
A new game for iOS came out in the U.S. recently called Please Stay Calm that puts a zombie apocalypse spin on location-based gaming. While some sharp cartoony graphics and hacking away at the undead with a chainsaw were both initial draws, there’s a ton of depth to the game. For starters, you’ve got the…
The Foursquare app for BlackBerry got a modest upgrade today. No, it’s not going to include Radar, but the logo in the top-left now launches into a notification stream. The notification list will include comments on your check-ins, when friends do one of your tips, both you and a friend have an identical place on…
In a developer blog post similar to the one we saw prior to the OS 7 device launch, RIM described the displays for two upcoming BlackBerry devices. The 9380 (which we had seen in glimpses) will have a 3.2-inch 480 x 360 touchscreen in a 4:3 aspect ratio, much like the existing Torch 9800. The…
blueSLR has expanded from iPhone to support Android and BlackBerry handsets recently. By slapping their Bluetooth accessory onto the side of your DSLR camera, you can control shooting settings for your camera from your phone, as well as geotag photos and upload them to Flickr, Picasa, and other web albums. Although cameras on smartphones are…
We’ve got some of our guys camped in line at the Palo Alto Apple store waiting for the iPhone 4S, but what about you readers? Are any of you tempted Siri? She listens and understands, which is more than you can say for most phones, and a lot of people. Yeah, the exterior and display…
Sony Ericsson reported their third quarter 2011 results today, which are in a bit of a slump compared to last year, but way better than Q2 at least. Unit shipments for the quarter sit at 9.5 million, which is up from 7.6 in Q2, but down from 10.4 in Q3 last year. Net income was…
If you weren’t among the million to sign up for an iPhone 4S on preorder day, odds are you’ll have to wait for more stock to come in. All three major U.S. service providers selling Apple’s latest handset are indicating that they’re out of stock. AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon will be dishing out devices to…
This morning, RIM posted a video of their co-CEO and founder, Mike Lazaridis, talking about the BlackBerry service interruptions that have been ongoing since Monday around the world. Lazaridis reported that service levels are approaching normal, but they still can’t say for sure how long it will be before everything is restored. He sounded sincere…