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A new study from the GfK Group suggests that smartphone owners aren’t loyal to any handset maker but Apple iPhone owners buck the trend slightly. The GfK survey found that 56% of smartphone owners will be keeping their options open when it comes to which type of phone they will buy next. It also said…
When the BlackBerry PlayBook launched sporting some Tron screenshots in the marketing, I had hoped that RIM had scored some sweet promo with the upcoming movie, but it looks like Nokia’s got something better – a cameo of their N8 in the movie, and revealing an exclusive new trailer with lots of new bits that…
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…
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…
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…
Google Docs has finally started rolling out support for mobile editing of Google Docs on smartphone platforms like Android OS and iOS! As the defacto cloud-based document collaboration tool of choice among enterprise and consumers alike, Google Docs has become something of a ubiquitous service for many. Unfortunately, we’ve been left pining for months for…
RIM just released a video comparing the browser on the BlackBerry PlayBook to the Apple iPad, and as you might expect, the PlayBook performs exceptionally well. It seems like they’re nitpicking a little big in the Acid3 test, but between load times, Flash support, and HTML5-based animation quality, it’s hard to argue with the PlayBook.…