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Some fresh shots of the rumoured Motorola Droid 2 have emerged, alongside rumours of a couple of BlackBerry devices and a tablet releasing by the end of the year. The Droid 2 is supposed to have a 5 megapixel camera and 1 GHz processor; combined with the fact that a batch of press shots have…
Local and regional carriers are often times a little late when it comes to adopting the latest in smartphones. Case in point today comes from one of my local carriers. Manitoba Telecom Services (MTS) has just launched the BlackBerry Storm2 9550. Better late than never, I guess. The MTS BlackBerry Storm2 9550 features everything you’ve…
Apple’s event yesterday dived into some of the nuances regarding the dreaded iPhone 4 Death Grip, and part of that statement involved spreading some blame to other manufacturers, like RIM, HTC, Samsung, and Nokia, for having the exact same problems. Apple claims that signal attenuation and dropping calls due to tightly holding a phone is…
Out with the old, and in with the new. With the Motorola Droid X and HTC Incredible filling up Verizon’s upper-tier smartphone lineup, the eight-month-old Droid and five-month-old Devour are hitting the dusty trail. Verizon’s still selling both handsets, but they won’t be recieving any more shipments from Motorola, so be sure to get ’em…
Remember that Limited Edition Team Canada BlackBerry Bold 9700 I told you about some time ago? The device was put together by RIM to help celebrate Canada’s success at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, however, only 20 of these beauties were put together. If I recall correctly, FutureShop ran a promo (for their sales staff…
Apple and Research In Motion reportedly tried to buy Palm before Hewlett-Packard (HP) won the rights to the smartphone pioneer, according to a report. We had previously known that there were other bidders for Palm but sources definitively told Business Insider that Apple and RIM were major suitors. The report said that Apple offered up…
Apple has turned the smartphone world on its head when it first introduced the iPhone. Since then, other major players have been making tremendous advances and seeing a resurgence in prominence. Others are dangerousy falling behind. According to a survey conducted by ChangeWave Research, now is the time that most folks are planning to buy…
The BlackBerry 9800, aka BlackBerry Talladega, aka BlackBerry Torch, has been all the buzz on the Berry scene over the past few months. However, I found it odd that I hadn’t heard much about RIM’s first-ever vertical slider as of late. In fact, just the other day I woke up wondering what the latest and…
Showing reckless abandon to the growing pre-eminence of the official BlackBerry Twitter client, HootSuite has announced that they’re taking submissions to participate in a private beta for an upcoming BlackBerry app. HootSuite has a few great things that set it apart from RIM’s Twitter client, like support for multiple accounts, multiple members, multiple social networks,…
This weekend we heard that the upcoming BlackBerry tablet, code-named Cobalt, would have a forward- and rear-facing camera as well as a 1 GHz processor, and today we’ve got Flash support to add to the mix of rumoured specs. This would be a huge differentiator from the iPad, and give BlackBerry an honest advantage in…