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The BlackBerry Bold Touch, code-named the Dakota and Montana, has been spotted in a few document leaks, but we aren’t ones to fawn over mere two-dimensional renders for long. Some shots have surfaced of a real live device, unbranded, sitting next to the Bold 9700. The magnetic compass seems to be working fine on there,…
At Mobile World Congress 2011, we got a chance to play around with the upcoming ViewSonic V320, which promises to bring two SIM card slots to the table and mid-range specs. ViewSonic also had their new Viewpad 10Pro tablet at MWC, which dual-boots into Windows 7 and Android, but it was still very early software…
Back in an interview a few months ago, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie said they “would be fools not to” include near-field communications in their next batch of handsets. In addition to reiterating their stance at the Mobile World Congress 2011 keynote with him saying “many, if not most” future BlackBerry smartphones would have NFC, RIM…
ZTE quietly announced an Android handset at Mobile World Congress. The Skate has a 4.3-inch WVGA screen, runs vanilla Android 2.3, a 5 megapixel camera, and the usual stuff like 7.2 Mbps HSPA, Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth. The Skate will be launching in the second quarter in Europe, presumably at a lower-than-average price point, since…
RIM recently acquired Swedish design firm The Astonishing Tribe, and for Mobile World Congress 2011, they were put to work demonstrating just how awesome the BlackBerry PlayBook could be. We got a look at three apps TAT had cooked up for a demonstration at the Texas Instruments booth (since the PlayBook runs on an OMAP…
Poynt’s location-based search app for Android and BlackBerry have had a few updates here at Mobile World Congress 2011. For one, the Android version will now have a gas prices widget, so you can see what’s the cheapest within the 9 closest stations. Both the Android and Blackberry versions also got a new sharing feature,…
Another tidbit from RIM out of Mobile World Congress 2011 was a new service called BBM Gifting, which will let you buy and send BlackBerry App World titles to friends over the exclusive instant messaging network. The transaction would be made through carrier billing, so you wouldn’t even have to punch in your credit card…
Last week, Yahoo! announced a new magazine-style app that conglomerated content from their own properties and select partners into one slick interface. We bumped into Yahoo! at Mobile World Congress, and got some time with the app up-front, and personally, I was pretty impressed. It`s got smooth transitions, a variety of channels for content, good…
At Mobile World Congress 2011, touchscreen manufacturer and researcher Synaptics have been showing off their new Series 4 ClearPad touchscreen, which not only shaves off a precious millimeter of thickness by being built right into the LCD display (as opposed to being a separate layer on top of it, like usual), it can also work…
As expected, RIM has acquired Gist, a company that offers an e-mail and meeting service which ranks and prioritizes incoming messages, as well as offers web-based contextual info about who’s contacting you. Gist figures out who’s most important to you based on how often you interact, and farms up data from blogs and social networks…