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We’ve heard that contrary to RIM’s guidance, some BlackBerry OS 7 smartphones will be hitting Canada before the back-to-school season. Beyond just launch windows, we’ve been hearing some pretty specific dates for Bell and Telus lately. The new BlackBerry Torch 9810 and Bold 9900 are both expected to land on Telus August 18 or 19,…
There’s been some worry that RIM’s next lineup of BlackBerry smartphones wouldn’t make it out the door before the back-to-school rush, but to back up rumours of a mid-August release, the Bold 9900 has recently passed through FCC filing. That’s usually a good sign that we’ll see the device within the next month, although hardly…
Walk into any phone shop and you’ll be faced with identical slabs of glass from every handset maker on the planet. Kind of boring, right? With the exception of Nokia, and most obviously Research in Motion, nearly no one else even bothers to launch devices with a physical QWERTY keyboard anymore. They might do one…
Feel free to call us out on this one, but doesn’t every mobile phone from Samsung look exactly the same? Take a look at the Wave 725, an as yet to be announced handset that runs Bada 2.0, Samsung’s homegrown operating system. It looks like the Tocco, their infinitely popular feature phone that sold well…
Who was the first North American operator to launch a 4G LTE network? If you said Verizon, you’d be wrong. That honor goes to MetroPCS, one of the smaller regional operators with a little under 9 million subscribers. Their first device 4G LTE device was a Samsung feature phone that we won’t even bother mentioning.…
Again I’m continuing to rant about webOS. Presuming it won’t die out — and I think webOS is the only reason why HP bought Palm and they’ll do anything to make it a success — HP needs to do something about it to excite the market and the media about the platform. Android is taking…
And while we still have our doubts on the prospects of bada platform, Samsung doesn’t seem to give up on it. Quite the contrary, version 2.0 should be released later this year and in the meantime the Korean giant will be providing select developers with early access to the next-gen SDK. We don’t know what…
We already know that the white version of the LG Optimus Black is heading to the UK. However, in the Netherlands, LG’s baby will be offered as LG Optimus White Edition, removing “black” from its name. The old-new device is available from Sizz, which is a Vodafone and RTL-backed operator. The carrier is giving away…
Apple iOS 5 beta 3 dropped a few hours ago and we weren’t expecting to find too much in it but we’re happy to report a few new goodies including enhanced gesture controls which could eventually lead to an iPhone without any physical buttons. You’ll be very happy to know that the Apple iOS 5…
There’s a big shakeup at HP concerning webOS as former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein will be stepping aside to allow HP’s Stephen DeWitt to drive the growth of webOS. Jon Rubinstein has been the public face of webOS since its introduction with the original Pre and he was even the person who unveiled the Pre…