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Alright, I won’t hate on BlackBerry too much, but I’d be kidding myself if I pretended that the Torch 9800 was a pretty big disappointment for many BlackBerry fans when it was announced. At the time, most new smartphones were launching with 1GHz processors and ridiculously high-resolution screens. The Torch 9800, on the other hand,…
Last spring, I passed the time in the subways playing Angry Birds. The game was relatively new, but after about a month or two, I was already tired of it. When the Angry Birds holiday editions and HD version for iPad came out, it had a brief resurgence in my leisurely life, but quickly died…
We live in a world where most people use their mobile gadgets and devices — you know, smartphones, tablets (like the iPad), and even laptop or netbook computers — whilst getting their daily television fix, and that’s precisely the kind of world where iPhone apps like IntoNow can make it easy to tag TV shows…
When you bought that fancy Motorola Droid back in November 2009, how did you feel? It was pretty cutting-edge, right? According to its huge advertising campaign, there was finally a phone on the market that could reliably compete against the iPhone. Verizon customers had the latest and greatest Android device in their hands. But two…
Nielsen and Yahoo conducted a survey that revealed 86% of mobile phone owners use the internet on their handset while watching TV. If they are not opening an application, then mobile phones owners are browsing the internet or checking out the latest Facebook and Twitter status updates. The study queried over 8,000 users between the ages…
We’ve seen some pretty amazing things made with the iPhone camera. Whether it’s a motorcycle commercial filmed entirely by the Apple smartphone or a professional photographer taking stunning headshots, it seems that artists out there are putting out some top-notch work. Now a pair of film students are producing a TV series shot entirely with…
As a result of civil unrest in Egypt, BlackBerry service provided by the three main carriers there, Mobinil, Vodafone, and Etisalat, has been shut down, according to a flood of tweets from the area. Twitter and Facebook access has already been restricted in order to clamp down on the organization of further protests. BlackBerry’s blockage…
Deutsche Bank has apparently seen the light with the iPhone and may never go back to using BlackBerry according to an analyst. Deutsche Bank Equity Research’s Chris Whitmore says that for the past two months, the company has been trying out the iPhone and that overall results are largely positive. Uh oh, bad news for…
First off, let’s give Notion Ink a big welcome to the world of Android. With Adam tablets actually shipping now (and bricking themselves after updates), Notion Ink probably never even thought about someone taking their precious Eden UI and porting it to another tablet. Well, that’s exactly what has happened. You can now install the…
HeyTell is a walkie-talkie application developed for Android and iOS. The App was developed by Steven Hugg and Jen Harvey, a husband and wife team, that left their jobs to work on a voice-based application under the company name of Voxilate. Rather than select a voice or video chat tool like Skype or Tango, the…