RIM today announced the BlackBerry Bold 9650 and the BlackBerry Pearl 3G. What’s interesting is that the Bold 9650 was rumored as the Tour2, a followup to the BlackBerry Tour. Indeed, the Bold 9650’s model number would indicate that it’s a Tour successor, rather than a variant on the Bold 9700. So, why did RIM…
RIM bows first CDMA BlackBerry Bold – Meet the BlackBerry Bold 9650
While GSM subscribers have been playing with the BlackBerry Bold for years, those of you on CDMA networks – like Sprint and Verizon – may have been feeling a bit ignored. Sure, you could get yourself a Bold-esque BlackBerry Tour from your favorite carrier, but true Bold-fiends aren’t going to be satisfied with a watered…
Netflix and ABC streaming videos on iPad – Badass or just bad?
When Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPad earlier this year, he showed off some headlining apps that would be available for the tablet device on launch. Two of those apps were the ABC and the Netflix iPad apps. The apps promised to turn your iPad into a movie-streaming, TV-watching tablet that would give your TV…
Facebook updates Android app with threaded messaging support
The Facebook Android app may be good, but it’s been lacking one key feature that has kept it from being as functional as the full Facebook website. Until today, the app has been missing support for Facebook’s threaded messages – a key component to the social network – that iPhone users have been playing with…
Knocking Live streams live video to over 1 million iPhones and Android
When you think “live streaming video,” you’re probably going to have either Qik or Flixwagon immediately popping into your head. But, a newcomer streaming video app takes a new approach to video streaming from smartphones, and it’s already 1 million users strong! The app, Knocking Live Video, has, in just 121 days, managed to capture…
SIRIUS XM adding Android to the mix in May
If you’re an Android user, and you like the idea of listening to radio broadcasts that are beamed to you from outer space, you’ll be happy to hear that you’ll soon be able to do so from your smartphone! The iPhone and Blackberry already have their own SIRIUS XM apps but Android has yet to…
Android 2.2 OS ‘Froyo’ might ‘Allow automatic updating’ of apps in the background!
Sometimes, it’s the little things – the details – that really make all the difference. It’s not the size of the feature, it’s how you use it. Don’t judge a smartphone feature by its cover. Ok, enough with the mangled rhetoric. What we’re getting at here is that sometimes the smallest little smartphone features can…
Video: iPhone hacked to dual-boot iPhone OS and Android OS
Well, hell has officially frozen over. The iPhone, which has been at odds with Google’s own Android OS, has been hacked to run its nemesis mobile operating system. What you see here is a video proving that Android can indeed run on the Apple phone, with dual-boot capabilities, no less. There have been other Android-on-iPhone…
Google gives up investigating spotty 3G issues for Nexus One
The Google Nexus One might be one helluva smartphone, but that hasn’t stopped a vocal minority from making noise over the N1’s problems – especially the spotty 3G network reception that some N1 users are seeing on T-Mobile. We previously mentioned the issues that T-Mobile Nexus One users have been experiencing, to which T-Mobile and…
Apple fires back at Adobe: You sir, are the one that is ‘closed and proprietary’
Apple and Adobe have been at each other’s necks for years now. The biggest point of contention between the two companies has been the inclusion – or, really, the exclusion – of Adobe’s Flash technology from Apple’s iPhone OS. Just this morning, Adobe announced that it will be giving up on all its Flash-on-iPhone aspirations…