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We had heard that RIM may launch up to three BlackBerry smartphones at their conference coming up early next month, but it looks like only one, the Bold Touch (code-named Montana/Dakota) will be going public. The Curve Touch and the Touch 9860 were also on the chopping block for a launch at the show, with…
A fresh rumour has been floated out that Motorola is planning two devices for the first quarter of 2012, both running on a new Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor. The Bullet will supposedly have a 4.3-inch 960 x 540 qHD display, 1 GB of RAM (maybe 1.5 GB), 16 GB of storage memory, near-field…
Untappd, a social network for beer-lovers, has just updated their web app so that you can find a specific brew in your neighbourhood based on where people have checked in to a specific brew. This is thanks in no small part to the Foursquare and Gowalla integration Untappd recently added, but unfortunately the new feature…
PhoneTag, a location sharing service for iPhone (not a voicemail transcription service or Bluetooth key fob), has recently made the jump to BlackBerry. What sets PhoneTag apart from the plethora of location-sharing apps currently available, like Google Latitude or Foursquare, is that PhoneTag lets you pick how long you share your location status, since it’s…
Skyfire‘s custom browser for Android is making the big leap to 4.0 today, adding a few more customization options to its Skybar, but the biggest change is that now you have to pay to use their signature pre-buffered video streaming. The feature saves on both data usage and time, which Skyfire claims will offset the…
Eye-Fi, the Wi-Fi-enabled SD card for point-and-shoot and DSLR digital cameras, had teased an upcoming mobile app last week, and now it’s available to download. With it, your smartphone can connect to a hotspot made by the SD card, transfer files over to your phone, then upload your pictures to any of your social networks…
A great infographic has been cooked up compiling data from a variety of sources detailing just how green the iPhone is. Traditionally, Greenpeace has given Apple mid to low rankings when it comes to ecologically-friendly manufacturing processes (although interestingly enough, they lose most of their points simply for not communicating all of their manufacturing information).…
RIM’s big show of the year, BlackBerry World, is kicking off early next month, and we’re already expecting them to announce the Bold Touch 9900 and the Curve 9860, but we may see yet another BlackBerry announced. The Curve Touch (the CDMA version of which is code-named Malibu), will be a lower-end alternative to the…
Following up on the BlackBerry PlayBook teardown from this morning, an Ottawa company has not only done their own disassembly, but also tallied up how much all of the parts cost. According to their bill of materials, the 16 GB version costs $190, the 32 GB version costs $205, and the 64 GB model $235.…
Although nobody was exactly camping out overnight to pick up a BlackBerry PlayBook yesterday, Peter Misek, an analyst at Jefferies & Co., claims 45,000 of RIM’s first tablet was sold on launch day through Best Buy and Staples alone, counting 25,000 preorders predominantly for 32 GB and 64 GB versions. Mike Abramsky, of RBC Captial…