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RIM’s first tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, has reportedly sold 250,000 units after the first month in stores, and Wedbush Securities analyst Scott Sutherland estimates sales by the end of the quarter (i.e. this month) to be in the 450,000 range. While that sounds decent, Sutherland soured his outlook on RIM. Early pre-launch estimates for PlayBook…
The HTC Merge was announced a few months ago, and released quietly to Verizon resellers, and soon it will be available on regional carrier U.S. Cellular for $149.99 on a two-year contract after rebates. Launch day is set for May 31, but units are being shipped to U.S. Cellular stores presently. It’s looking like a…
For awhile, mSpot has been storing music in the cloud and allowing users to stream it to their phones through a mobile app, but now that Google’s headed that way, they’ve stepped up their game. Today, mSpot now includes free streaming internet radio much like popular sources like Slacker and Pandora. The new radio button…
Google Maps for Android has been updated to version 5.5, including a handful of new features. Place pages now provide the option to check in on Latitude and leave a rating out of five stars. Recently Google’s location history service tied in with Latitude could start tracking how much time we spend at work, home,…
A Lebanese hacking group called Idahca has apparently gained access to personal information of over 2,000 shoppers at Sony Ericsson’s online e-shop. Data included e-mail addresses, names, encrypted passwords, and though credit card and other sensitive information was available, Idahca says they didn’t take any. Right now the shop is down, but it will likely…
Mobile media hogs will be happy to hear that soon they’ll be able to bump up their 32 GB memory cards to 64 GB. A little-known manufacturer, Kingmax, has announced that their class 6 microSD XC 64 GB card recently.the card meets SD 3.0 specifications, and includes an Error Correction Code that fixes data errors…
A recent survey by Nielsen asked 12,000 mobile device owners about the situations where they used tablets, e-book readers, and smartphones. While smartphones and tablets were most commonly used while watching TV, and e-book readers in bed, the most interesting statistic to me was that for smartphones, 28% of owners admitted to using it in…
I just finished up our Sony Ericsson Xperia Play review, and as far as I was concerned, the biggest measure of its long-term success would be how many game developers adapted their titles to its signature hardware gaming controls. Even though the Xperia Play doesn’t launch in the U.S. until tomorrow, there’s already a strong…
We had a pretty solid feeling that the LG Revolution would be launching tomorrow, but today we just got the official confirmation. The pricetag will sit at a whopping $249.99 on a two-year contract. May 26 is shaping up to be a big day for Verizon, as they’ll also be launching the HTC Trophy, the…
Sony Ericsson’s announcement of the Xperia Play was met with both bewilderment and intrigue; could Sony’s solid, established strategy in gaming really be applied to mobile, and if so, is slapping some familiar hardware controls on the back of the Xperia Arc the best way to do that? Sure, Sony has had plenty of experience…