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A quick glimpse into Bell’s BlackBerry lineup for the summer has provided some launch windows for Canadians to look forward to. Despite RIM saying they would be missing the back-to-school rush, Bell is listing a late August launch for the Torch 9810, Bold 9900, “Monaco” 9860, and Curve 9360. Bell won’t be alone in launching…
Summertime is in full swing, and you’ve got the inkling to get the hell out of Dodge. Not surprisingly your friends do too, which is when you all decide to go on a road trip. Maybe it’s just an hour out of town to the cottage, maybe it’s an epic cross-continent trek that will generate…
The News360 app started off on iPad, offering a rich, categorized way of ingesting current events, and moved to the BlackBerry PlayBook, Android Honeycomb, and Windows Phone shortly after. Now they’ve shifted slightly off of tablets and are now available on Android smartphones running OS 2.2 and up. The layout is a little re-jiggered, but…
As rumored, Google Maps will now allow you to download map data locally to your phone, so you can still get detailed information even when you’re outside of coverage. Currently available in the Maps Labs, all you have to do is find a Place page that you intend to be visiting, go to the More…
Foursquare has been busy lately, first with their updated Windows Phone app, and now a new notification system for their Android app. Now you get a little blip in the top-right of the screen letting you know when friends comment on one of your check-ins, Facebook friends join Foursquare, when you’re ousted as mayor, or…
While we’re waiting for offline Navigation, Google Maps for Android has been updated with a different nav-related feature: stop-by-stop info for transit. Sounds extraneous, considering Mr. Bus Driver already has a pretty good idea of where he’s going, right? Right, but you still need to know where to hop off. Transit Navigation, not only can…
RIM has sent out a mass e-mail to BlackBerry developers to help them prepare App World 3.0. At the same time, they’ve given their web portal a significant visual upgrade, presumably the first step in the transition process. The e-mail instructs developers to update their app profiles to include a short one-sentence description, as well…
A snippet of AT&T’s summer launch schedule has slipped out, hinting that the HTC Status and LG Thrill will be launched this month, and that the new BlackBerry Torch is launching in August. The HTC Status (better known as “the Facebook phone”) and LG Thrill have both already been officially announced, but specific launch dates…
It’s a little bizarre to thing of Microsoft making cool apps for Apple products, but a few months ago Bing launched on the iPad, and it was actually pretty impressive. Today, they’ve followed up with their first update, which has a snazzy feature called Lasso. After you tap a new option in the navigation bar,…
Texas Instruments today announced that they’re the first to support 1080p, 30 frames per second Netflix streams for Android 2.3. Of course Netflix is already available on Android, but it only supports 720p resolution in its current state, and for those that want to watch these shows on their TV or other big screens, this…