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Not to be out-done by Verizon, Sprint has announced that they will be offering the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 in gray and purple starting September 26 for $49.99 on a two-year contract after mail-in rebate. Most sales channels should have it from October 10 onwards. Sprint confirms BlackBerry 6 upgradeability on the Curve 3G, but…
A recent study from Gartner is forecasting mobile platform market share up to 2014, and echoes the results of earlier studies regarding Android’s current momentum. Specifically, Gartner says Android will just barely squeak ahead of BlackBerry’s number two spot in 2010, and have a significant lead by 2011. Despite a steady decline, Symbian will still…
Updated just the other day, The Weather Channel MAX for BlackBerry now packs quite a few new features that the regular user will enjoy. The latest version brings the app up to version 2.5… and below is a quick rundown of what’s new: Animated radar maps are now on-board New TruPoint technology provides detailed forecasts…
Time for a quick BlackBerry OS roundup for the Berry users in the crowd. It’s been a little while since I’ve put one of these together… I figured it was overdue, so here we go. First off, we have a leaked OS for the BlackBerry Torch 9800. The build bumps Torch users up to 6.0.0.225,…
We knew it was coming, and as expected, Verizon has confirmed that they’ll be offering the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 on September 16 in “charcoal” and “fuchsia red”. The BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 is RIM’s entry-level smartphone, so don’t get too excited. Specs include Wi-Fi b/g (no n, like the 9300), EVDO 1X 3G, GPS,…
We heard that Rogers was going to be launching the BlackBerry Torch 9800 on September 24, and as you might expect, they’ve got some sales staff to train. More interesting than that though is Galaxy S Captivate training starting online as well, meaning we’ll likely see it in the next week or two, even though…
Most of you young’uns in Canada are just starting your school year, and have a wealth of excuses with which to bug your parents for a new cell phone, while others might not be so lucky and have to get something on a budget. Lucky for you, our ear is continually to the ground for…
I guess Rogers, Bell, Telus, Fido, Koodo, Virgin Mobile, Wind Mobile, Mobilicity, and Public Mobile just weren’t enough to cover Canada, because Quebecor’s Videotron has just launched their wireless network in our French-speaking province, running on the same AWS bands as Wind Mobile and T-Mobile south of the border. The home networks currently cover Quebec…
Earlier this summer, MasterCard released a mobile payment app for iPhone, which has now found its way to BlackBerry. MoneySend lets you send cash to friends, pay for stuff, or ask for money from others once it’s paired up with your MasterCard and your banking institution. MasterCard had partnerered with Zoompass for contactless payment stickers,…
The last we had heard in mobile app research was a forecast that there would be 25 billion downloads by 2015, and along the same vein, Nielsen has released the results of a survey of some 4,000 mobile users about their application downloading habits. As you’d expect, iPhone users were the most active, with an…