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Nokia has been pumping out Symbian^3 devices at quite an impressive rate. First there was the N8, which was announced far too early before finally shipping, then there was the C7, and more recently the C6-01 and E7. All of these devices have one thing in common: they’re running the most up to date version…
Last year, RIM gave the BlackBerry Bold a much-needed update by slimming its profile, upgrading its camera, and replacing the trackball with a slick optical trackpad. Since then, a bunch of new BlackBerrys have come out with the brand new OS 6, most notably the BlackBerry Style 9670 and the BlackBerry Torch 9800. It’s been…
The Black Eyed Peas are playing around with the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in their music video for “The Time (Dirty Bit)”. It’s a perfect song for those times you wish you were listening to bastardized oldies in a club full of Lego-people. Although the PlayBook is likely to be a dummy unit with the…
Tom Tauke, Verizon’s Executive Vice President of Public Affairs, Policy and Communications, in a panel discussion titled “Rewriting the Telecom Act: Has the Time Come?” at the Federalist Society’s National Conference in Washington that place on November 20th, called out the FCC and Congress and said that their policies are ancient and that they need…
Apple’s highly anticipated iOS 4.2 update will be available today for download and installation on your favorite iOS device. iOS 4.2 will be an incremental update for the iPhone and iPod touch, but will bring radical changes to the iPad. The update will bring notable features like multi-tasking, folder support, AirPlay, and AirPrint to Apple’s…
Retailers may have the corner on crowds, lines, and crazed shoppers but carriers are no slouch when it comes to pre-Thanksgiving Day sales Black Friday deals. Most of the major carriers in the U.S. are slashing prices on handsets and offering tantalizing voice and data plans to encourage shoppers to kick off the holiday shopping…
Let’s just get this part out of the way, the HTC Desire HD is an absolutely stunning phone. HTC has stepped up their game, brought the world yet another piece of great hardware, and optimizing their already great software, making a solid successor to the original Desire. This follow-up to the original HTC Desire packs…
There has been little beyond negative news for Nokia as of late. Over the late summer and early fall, it was nothing but the exodus of executives followed by horrid reviews of its flagship device, the N8. Today we caught wind of news that there were quality control issues with the N8, and so units…
While Android developers are receiving new guidelines for the Market to give it some overall polish, we can’t help but wonder what new features Google has in store for the end-user. We’ve heard whispers of many different things that may debut with the soon to be released Gingerbread update, but which ones will make the…
Verizon is rolling out LTE and the carrier may be modifying its current data plans to reflect the changes that accompany this next generation mobile broadband service. Rather than keep conventional data plans which are tiered according to MB or GB of usage, the wireless carrier is considering plans that are tiered by speed in…