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HTC released an official video tour of their upcoming Flyer Tablet, demonstrating the various applications for the and pen accessory. We’ve already had the hands-on a few times over, but it’s cool to see what HTC spends time highlighting. We see a nice carousel home screen at the beginning, with an off-handed mention that it…
Public Mobile is an often-overlooked underdog in Canadian wireless (even among the new no-contract entrants), but today they have announced their first data plan and device, meaning we might see them duking it out with Wind Mobile and Mobilicity in the near future. Public Mobile’s first steps into the wireless data world are modest: $5/month…
HTC just dished out some invites to UK journalists for an event on April 12, with only the ominous directive “to see what’s next”. There’s some crazy liquid metal T-1000 stuff going on there, leaving us only with our imagination as to what is concealed below the surface. We’re seeing the HTC Pyramid pretty clearly…
Spacefaring massively multiplayer online game EVE Online may be going mobile in the near future. At their annual EVE Fanfest, developer CCP was showing off the graphic-intensive gaming running on an Nvidia Tegra 2-powered Android phone and tablet. Of course, these are just preliminary testing phases, but it’s not like there isn’t a precedent set;…
A leaked enterprise product roadmap from RIM is indicating that BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Google Apps Premier is being targeted for a September launch. This means corporate-grade e-mail, calendar, and contacts will sync up seamlessly between the Google services in the cloud and the BlackBerry phone in your hand. This is vaguely reminiscent of the…
Internally, Research In Motion has been running a conference for their BlackBerry developers, talking a lot about how to speed up the rollout of their operating system upgrades, but also hinting at the future. BlackBerry OS 7 is a new project named “Highlander” which will attempt to join the QNX Neutrino-based operating system on the…
There’s a rumour floating around that RIM’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie spoke in Toronto yesterday and announced that BlackBerry Messenger and “other services” would be coming to iPhone on April 26, followed-up with a new notification system for BBM on iOS in the summer. The fact that the rumour originated from some random dude on a…
Verizon’s planned launches for the next two months have leaked out in a spring roadmap. Some of the highlights include the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, the Motorola Droid Bionic, the LG Revolution, and the Samsung Galaxy S 2. Also making an appearance is the Casio Commando (a ruggedized Android handset), the Samsung Charge (a.k.a. Stealth),…
German Green party member and privacy advocate Malte Spitz wanted to see just how much data T-Mobile Germany was storing about him, so he went after T-Mobile, and after a legal back-and-forth, received 35,831 points of location information spanning as far back as six months (a time period mandated by local law). Of course, there…
Russian carrier MTS will be launching a new marketing campaign soon revolving around some high-tech displays which put the BlackBerry Storm2 at front and center. Using what’s called a Dreamoc 3D Display, made by RealFiction, the Storm2 will be circled by holographic 3D images, viewable from 3 sides. The concept video illustrates a variety of…