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If you thought that the Verizon iPhone 4 was adequately shielded from dropping calls by bridging a gap in the frame in the bottom left (better known as Death Grip), Consumer Reports has some bad news for you. Just like the AT&T model, Consumer Reports has found significant signal loss when touching a specific part…
If you thought this was how Angry Birds would look like if it ever made the leap to BlackBerry, guess again. Smarter Apps has released an unabashed knock-off called Angry Farm, where, like the original, you aim and slingshot various animals at precariously-constructed buildings in an effort to collapse everything on top of the hapless…
The iPad 2 is going to be announced on March 2, and there have been rumours abound of a Retina display (or at least higher-res than the original iPad) and an SD memory card slot. Apparently those features have been nixed due to “engineering issues”, although some argue that neither were in the picture in…
Google’s mobile search site for iPhone and Android devices has had a little upgrade to help you find what business you’re looking for just a bit faster. After doing a search, you can pare down results based on what’s open, how close locations are, and how highly rated they are. Entries still pull in all…
ShopSavvy, a price comparison app, has detected that their Android app has been used in Waterloo, Ontario (presumably by someone at RIM) on a BlackBerry Curve 8520, Curve 8300, and a mystery 8600 device. We had heard plenty of rumours that the BlackBerry PlayBook will be able to handle Android apps, but this is the…
Some screenshots of the next version of Facebook for BlackBerry have snuck out, revealing a handful of new features. The most prominent among them is Chat, something users have been missing for ages, resulting in a slew of third-party apps filling the gap. Facebook 2.0 for BlackBerry also tidies up the user interface, enables you…
Dab smack in the middle of Mobile World Congress last week, Google released an update to their relatively new Reader application for Android. There’s now an unread count widget, so you can see how much catching up you have left to do (though I’ve personally given up on keeping any stream down to zero). There’s…
BlackBerry Internet Service, the underlying structure that BlackBerry owners use if they aren’t hooked up to a corporate server, will get a handful of new features soon according to some leaked docs. The last update introduced two-way Google Calendar Sync, which will get polished up in 4.0 with the ability to completely delete calendars and…
Today Shape Services has launched an Android version of their iOS app, iDisplay, which turns Android handsets and tablets into secondary monitors for computers. I’m not sure how useful this would be for smartphones, but for tablets, especially big ones like the Motorola Xoom that just came out today, it would be perfect. iDisplay needs…
For all of the flak Apple gets for charging a 30% cut of regular iPhone app purchases, in-app purchases, and subscriptions, they apparently don’t pull in much actual profit. CFO Peter Oppenheimer said at an Apple shareholder meeting said “We run the App Store just a little over breakeven,” after fielding a question about how…