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Sprint has apparently canceled their earlier plans to launch a WiMAX-enabled “4G” BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. While that might have a little something to do with their choice to support LTE, Sprint’s president of business markets said that they held back on launching the device because the tablet market was getting crowded, and the case for…
Following up on Rogers and Bell releases, Telus has released two new BlackBerry smartphones today. The Bold 9900 we’re pretty familiar with at this point, and is now on sale for $149.99 on a three-year contract, or $649.99 with no strings attached. The Torch 9810 is a bit cheaper, going for $599.99 off-contract, or $129.99…
Now that the BlackBerry 9900 and 9810 have been out in Canada for a few days, there has been some confusion about app memory on the device. It’s advertised to have 768 MB of RAM, but there’s only 189 MB of memory available for applications, which is entirely separate from the on-board storage (which varies…
We’ve got a lot of new BlackBerry devices launching imminently, but there are still a few more coming down the pipe. There’s the Curve code-named Apollo, of course, but there’s also one that we only caught a glimpse of in January’s CDMA roadmap leak called the Curve Touch. A few fresh pictures of a live…
News360 has just updated their app for iPad and Android to tap into your Facebook, Twitter, Evernote and Google account to figure out the kind of stuff you’re interested, and serve up relevant content. They’re calling the system “reverse search”, in that the right content finds you, rather than the other way around. Neat idea,…
We aren’t expecting Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon to be launching their new OS 7 BlackBerry devices until at least August 21, but up in Canada, Rogers has already launched the 9900 and 9810, and Bell has recently joined the fray. Bell’s marketing both of them as 4G, along with just about every other phone they’re…
Right on cue, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and Torch 9810 are hitting Rogers stores across Canada. To whet your palate, Rogers has relaunched their 6 GB for $30/month plan, and they’ve also got a new set of daily and weekly data roaming packages for the frequent flyers out there. Rogers has already confirmed that they’d…
Facebook has announced a new app called Messenger for iPhone and Android devices that will give chat a bunch of new functions in a dedicated user interface. Messenger pulls in all of your local and Facebook contacts into one list, and also puts all of your Facebook messages, chats, texts, and e-mails under one roof.…
Okay, they might not actually be ninjas, but if you’re firing a 1,000-foot line across an international border (which just so happens to be a river) with a slingshot, and using it to zip-line $46,500-worth of iPhone 4 and iPad 2 devices, I think you at least get honourary ninja status. The elaborate scheme was…
You might have heard that RIM was set to cooperate with London authorities to investigate who was participating in the local riots. BBM has apparently been instrumental in organizing groups of looters. A hacking group called TeaMpOisoN didn’t take particularly kindly to this, and took over control of the official Inside BlackBerry blog to issue…