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Some early reviews of the iPhone 4S are in, and it looks like everybody’s pretty happy with it. The reception might not be the same explosive one given to the iPhone 4, but most reviewers are impressed with the Siri voice recognition system, even with a few bugs and functionality gaps. The iPhone 4S is…
It looks like EA is going to have some competition with the new titles it just launched. Gameloft has just released six games for RIM’s tablet, running the gamut from sci-fi shooter to soccer. UNO HD is the classic card game, complete with multiplayer and various game modes. Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD is a racing…
Normally BlackBerry service outages aren’t worth much attention because they’re usually resolved within the day, but there’s a particularly big one that has gone for three days now in some areas. The initial outage knocked out instant messaging (including BBM), e-mail, and web browsing in some capacity. At the very least, it sounds like RIM…
Jaguar Financial, a noisy little financial firm that has a few shares in RIM, has piped up again with complaints about the company’s leadership, only this time it’s not just them. They have apparently won support from those who own 8% of RIM’s total issued shares, who all feel that there needs to be an…
Last week, Qualcomm talked about their new S4 Snapdragon processor, which bundled in LTE, NFC, and multi-core clock speeds between 1.5 and 2.5 GHz. Most notably, the S4 processor is on a 28 nm chip, which is more or less unheard of in the space, and translates to 25% – 40% energy savings from the…
EA is following up on their BlackBerry PlayBook release of Dead Space over the summer with a handful of other recognizable games. Casual puzzler Bejeweled 2, urban planning strategy game SimCity Deluxe, and classic board game The Game of Life are now all available in BlackBerry App World. EA was in a good spot…
After a lengthy stay on Android and iOS, Foodspotting has finally come to BlackBerry. Even Windows Phone got a release before BlackBerry. Foodspotting is just what you’d imagine it is: you take pictures of your meals, and share ’em with the community at large, be it within Foodspotting’s own little corner, or out to larger…
Yesterday, RIM announced that they would be incorporating an NFC feature called Tag into their next BlackBerry 7 update. It will let owners of NFC-enabled BlackBerry devices to swap contacts, documents, web site URLs, pictures, and videos just by tapping their phones together. Yeah, it sounds an awful lot like Bump, but good luck getting…
At an event in New York today, Sprint announced that they plan to launch LTE-enabled devices by the middle of 2012, with 15 due to drop by the time 2013 rolls around. We’ve already heard rumours that Sprint’s LTE network would be lighting up early next year, and this schedule lines up pretty nicely. WiMAX is…
As mentioned during the launch announcement, iPhone 4S pre-orders are available for a number of countries today, including Australia, France, Germany, Japan, U.S., Canada, and the U.K. Though the iPhone 4S looks pretty much identical to the iPhone 4 launched last year, there are a few notable upgrades. The camera is now 8 megapixels, with…