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Along with being launched on the Samsung Nexus S 4G, Sprint has announced that Google Voice will be coming to all of their handsets from here on in. With a few quick steps, Sprint customers can turn their existing phone number into their Google Voice number, through which inbound and oubound calls from up to…
It looks like Canada beat the U.S. to getting the Nokia C7. Wind Mobile is now selling the Symbian^3 handset for $350 off-contract, and if you pick one up this weekend, they’ll throw a Nokia 5230, because they’re nice like that. As far as plans go, Wind Mobile has recently announced an awesome new Unstoppable…
Corning, the makers of the nigh-impenetrable Gorilla glass found on many top-end smartphones recently released a video showing us “A Day Made of Glass,” where glass smartphones communicate with glass tables, glass TVs, glass computers, and glass cars. I guess this is also the glasstopia where Corning makes everything anyone uses and rules the planet…
The developer of inbox management app, Xobni, announced that they would be launching a closed alpha for Android and iPhone apps to follow up on their established BlackBerry product. The app should be graduating to beta within the next 90 days, with a full version available sometime in Q2. On the desktop side, they’re launching…
Wondering when you can get your mitts on HP’s adorably tiny Veer? Probably sometime this spring, as O2 Germany has confirmed that they’ll be offering the device in May. That gives us a ballpark release window for the rest of Europe, but who knows how closely North America will follow. The HP Veer is a…
On top of the LG Optimus Black, A healthy bundle of Android phones are set to drop on T-Mobile UK. By the end of the month they’ll be launching the Samsung Galaxy Ace, which packs an 800 MHz processor, 5 megapixel camera, and HVGA display. In April both the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and HTC…
The next batch of BlackBerry handsets will have near-field communications installed, which will allow you to pay for stuff by simply tapping your phone on a sensor at retailers. While RIM might have the technical prowess to enable NFC in the hardware, the back-end logistics are apparently proving to be a headache. According to several…
GetGlue, a social network for checking-in to stuff of just about any type, has graduated their closed beta BlackBerry app to prime time, and is now available for free in App World. No new features unfortunately, but all of the major bugs should be soundly squashed. GetGlue is a way of sharing your fandom of…
Following several months of wrestling with investing partner Telenor and a shareholder vote today, Russian service provider VimpelCom has been given the go-ahead to acquire Canada’s Wind Mobile and various other assets from Egyptian parent company Orascom for $6 billion. The transaction should be completed in the first half of 2011, and will make VimpelCom…
It looks like BlackBerry Traffic isn’t the only thing RIM is updating today. Facebook for BlackBerry has just gone into a limited beta, and is looking a whole lot different. The biggest feature addition is Chat, which is long overdue. The notification system has been polished up a bit, closely emulating the native drop-down BlackBerry…