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We’ve only recieved an inkling of what RIM’s latest BlackBerrry smartphones will cost, but Rogers has just gone on the record with how much they’ll be charging for the Bold 9900, Torch 9810, and Torch 9860. Like T-Mobile, Rogers will be offering the Bold 9900 for a little more than expected: $249.99 on a three-year…
Now that the BlackBerry Torch 9810 and 9860 have been announced with nary a peep about NFC, it’s looking like the Bold 9900 will have a distinct lead on features versus the other OS 7 smartphones from RIM. The downside is you might end up paying a premium, according to a leaked slide from T-Mobile.…
Following closely behind the rumoured launch date of the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9810 on Telus, Bell may be launching the OS 7 smartphones on August 16, according to some leaked internal documents. Bell is also set to carry the Torch 9860 which was officially announced today, but there’s no date for that one included.…
RIM has announced two of their long-leaked devices this morning: the BlackBerry Torch 9810 and the BlackBerry Torch 9850/60. Both are confirmed to have 1.2 GHz processors and 768 MB of RAM. As expected, the Torch 9810 will beat out the 9850/60 on local storage with 8 GB versus 4 GB, but that’s more or…
After a false start this morning, the Skype video and voice calling app for the iPad has been released. All of the standard bells and whistles are included, like instant messaging, friends list management, SMS texting, and of course video and voice calls to other Skype users as well as land lines. No multi-user video…
As if we didn’t have enough OS 7 BlackBerry launch dates today. A leaked flyer for Rogers has shown that they’ll be getting the Bold 9900 even earlier than Telus. August 9 is the date listed, which is in exactly one week, though they do say that target is tentative. Yeah, that word is there,…
Hunting around for an iPhone 5 release date? A bunch of dates from Telus have leaked, revealing that Canada is getting the iPhone 5 on October 1. At best, we have an idea of what it might look like, but any other info on the device itself is still the subject of speculation. That same…
Piper Jaffray recently wrapped up some research on smartphone adoption, revealing that 67% of BlackBerry owners were going to switch to an iPhone next, with only 26% sticking with RIM. By contrast, 94% of iPhone owners were going to get an Apple handset again, while 42% of Android owners would be continuing with the OS…
The T-Mobile BlackBerry Bold 9900 was announced a few months ago, and though we’re expecting it to land sometime before the end of the summer, exact dates have been scarce. This one leaked slide suggests that T-Mobile will be putting it on shelves on August 31, just in time for the back-to-school rush. There aren’t…
NTP launched into a patent lawsuit frenzy last year, suing giants like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Motorola, LG, HTC, and major U.S. carriers like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint. The seven patents in question revolved around mobile e-mail, and though the U.S. Court of Appeals sought to invalidate the patent for being unreasonably broad, the…