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Carlo Chiarello, RIM’s business unit VP of GSM/UMTS, recently spoke about their progress for putting the PlayBook’s QNX-based operating system into smartphones. This is something RIM has admitted as an eventuality, but anything more specific beyond that has been hard to come by. Apparently here are already prototypes running the OS, which Chiarello says “look…
The SMS, or text message, is seeing its last days and I sure am glad. Google is reportedly working on its own version of iMessage or BBM for Android. This means users will be able to send text and multimedia messages to each other, globally, without incurring messaging costs from the carriers. If true, I’m…
We just received an insider memo that says Sprint is readying a shared data plan starting June 12 that will include buckets of 4G/3G data for multiple devices. Does this mean we may soon see the end of truly unlimited data from Sprint? We know that other carriers are looking at a shared data plan…
The Verizon 4G LTE network is pretty darn good but a new report from Root Metrics shows that not all devices are created equally. The company compared the HTC Thunderbolt and Samsung Droid Charge and found that one consistently got faster download speeds, even though both were using the same 4G LTE network. The report…
U.S. Cellular customers are in for a treat as the carrier plans to launch seven Android smartphones by 2012, including its first 4G LTE device. Additionally, the carrier will launch two tablets and a Windows Phone 7 device. U.S. Cellular is definitely looking forward to a healthy portfolio of devices this year, which is great…
Nokia’s ex-Microsoft CEO, Stephen Elop, recently spoke at the Open Mobile Summit in London, and spoke fairly bluntly about the nature of Android and iPhone’s openness. For one, he claimed that “Apple created Android, or at least it created the conditions necessary to create Android. People decided they could not play in the Apple way,…
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 WiFi edition has just hit the streets in certain markets and we thought it would be fun to go over it, even though we’ve already reviewed the device that was given out at Google’s I/O conference. The hardware is almost exactly the same, so don’t expect much different there but…
Sprint announced today the Motorola Triumph for its partner, Virgin Mobile. The Triumph is an Android 2.2 Froyo device for the pre-paid crowd, and it isn’t half bad, either. It has a 4.1-inch touchscreen display and a 5MP rear camera that can shoot HD video. The device also has a front-facing VGA camera for self-portraits…
IDC released their latest forecast today, claiming smartphone shipments would reach 472 million this year (versus 305 million in 2010, marking 55% growth) and skyrocket to 982 million by the end of 2015. IDC’s forecast of Windows Phone overtaking iPhone and BlackBerry market share by 2015 holds steady, along with their prediction that Symbian growth…
HP’s first webOS tablet, the TouchPad, was announced just before Mobile World Congress, and though not much has been said about it since then, the Wi-Fi version will be ready to go on sale July 1 in the U.S, with preorders starting June 19. Prices are more or less what you’d expect for a tablet…