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After running since 2008, Nokia’s “Comes with Music” service, which provided unlimited tunes for a year from Ovi for a significant markup on handsets, has been canceled in 27 countries. China (where it’s DRM-free), India, and Indonesia will continue selling one-year subscription packages, while 6-month subscriptions will still be available in Brazil, Turkey, and South…
Those of you excited about the Verizon iPhone 4 might want to hold out on getting one in order to see what the iPhone 5 has in store. According to the latest batch of rumours, the iPhone 5 will have a new A5 multi-core processor (based on Cortex A9). For graphics, the iPhone 5 will…
To cap off the busy week in BlackBerry leaks, some profile shots of the BlackBerry Bold code-named Dakota, the refreshed Torch 2, and the new Curve “Apollo” have been slipped out. The Dakota looks considerably thinner than the old 9000, while keeping its definitive wide and beautiful look. We can see the back of the…
In a recent interview, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg answered some pretty interesting questions about his relationship with Apple and the iPhone which led up to this week’s announcement. The most notable among them is that despite an army of rumours to the contrary, Verizon was “never in the running” for an earlier iPhone, as it…
Alltel just launched the LG Axis, a cheap little Android slider that has a 3.2-inch touchscreen, 3 megapixel camera, 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, and is going for $89.99 on a two-year contract after rebates. It joins a few other Android handsets on the regional service provider, most notably the HTC Desire. The LG Axis runs Android…
We heard yesterday that the BlackBerry Storm 3 was going into production, but on top of some fresh pictures and a full spec sheet, the disheartening news that it’s not landing until September 2011 came out today. 1.2GHz processor 3.7-inch 800 x 480 capacitive display Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE Tri-band UMTS/HSPA 5-megapixel camera with 720p video recording…
Reports from supplier partners suggest that the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook will ship a full one million units in the first quarter, compared to the 700 – 800,000 Motorola Xoom tablets that are currently scheduled. The PlayBook is supposedly landing in March, to be followed by a 3G version with standalone push-email (woo, no Bridge requirement),…
RIM announced an update to their user-liable feature in BES 5.0.2, naming it “BlackBerry Balance” yesterday in Boston. BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.3 basically allows office monkeys to buy their own BlackBerry, and use it as a personal as well as a professional device while staying secure enough for the IT guys. This is done by…
RIM confirmed an off-hand comment about battery life on the BlackBerry PlayBook in an interview recently; they are, indeed, aiming to get 8 hours of life from its 5300-mAH battery. This is reassuring, considering early rumours said the battery life was balls, but RIM was quick to point out that power management is the last…
The last in a trio of BlackBerry leaks today (presumably from the DevCon Asia conference, where we saw the WebWorks SDK for the PlayBook, OS 6.1, and the Payment Service announced), is the BlackBerry “Apollo”. It doesn’t look like it’s quite set to replace RIM’s entry-level Curve 9300, since the specs (and probably the price)…