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Infrastructure partner Ericsson has announced that with the help of Singapore service provider, SingTel, they’ve hit data speeds of 168 Mbps downlink and 24 Mbps uplink on a multi-carrier HSPA network. While that might be a ways off to any commercial deployment, Ericsson also completed dual-carrier HSPA, striking speeds up to 84 Mbps (a speed…
Stash this one under rumours barring any hard evidence, but I’ve heard from three separate sources that Sprint is launching the BlackBerry Bold Touch code-named “Montana” and the Storm code-named “Monaco” before the end of the second quarter (i.e. end of August). Though the sources didn’t name the devices specifically, they referenced a flagship touchscreen/QWERTY…
Last week, LG was teasing us with a 3D Optimus phone launching at Mobile World Congress, which likely be this phone leaked recently. Though it’s not identified by name, it doesn’t look like any other LG Optimus phones out there. Details are scarce, but the tipster says the screen is bigger than 4 inches, has…
While BlackBerry may be quickly losing ground to the competition here in North America (and worldwide, for that matter), they’re still doing fine in the UK, according to a recent study by GfK Group. RIM’s lineup beat out Apple’s by claiming 28.2% of UK smartphone sales for 2010, which includes moving 500,000 units over the…
One of my favourite PC games, Worms, is now available on Android for $2.99, in addition to their existing iPhone app. It’s a 2D, turn-based shooter that pits rival teams of worms in surreal landscapes with a variety of unlikely weapons, including (but not limited to), the Hadouken, the Concrete Donkey, the Exploding Sheep, and…
A recent study by ChangeWave examined trends in mobile operating system preferences, and showed that 5% of respondents would prefer to buy a Windows Phone, versus 4% who wanted a BlackBerry. Of course, the difference between the two is negligible when the iPhone OS and Android took up 36% and 35% respectively, but it does…
The BlackBerry Curve code-named Sedona was spotted in RIM’s CDMA roadmap for 2011 yesterday, but it’s more than just some crisp renderings – a few shots of the device alive and kicking with Verizon branding have surfaced, following up on some pictures of the unbranded version. From what we know, the Sedona will be significantly…
GetGlue, my personal mobile check-in app of choice, just launched a series of reward stickers for something near and dear to my heart – video games. Special rewards for big-name Xbox titles like Halo Reach, Fable II and Alan Wake are available if you check in to these games using the Glue app for Android…
Rumour has it RIM is currently producing 150,000 – 200,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets each month through Quanta factories in Taiwan. Apparently RIM sought to make the PlayBook in Taiwan to avoid Chinese knock-offs and keep a lock-down on the security specifications. If you’ve yet to meet the PlayBook, it’s RIM’s first tablet, running a whole…
Opera and YouGov recently released the results of their survey regarding popular perceptions of online security and privacy. Compiling data from over a thousand respondents in each of the U.S., Japan, and Russia, it was concluded that having internet privacy violated to the point of fraud was a bigger daily worry than losing a job…