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BlackBerry Curve 9300 and 9700 users, it’s time to sit up and take note of a couple of operating system leaks that hit us over the weekend. First off, we have OS 6.0.0.358, which leaked for the 9300. So, if you’re a Curve 3G owner and want to get the latest and greatest (albeit unofficial)…
Yes, we’ve heard that TELUS will have the BlackBerry Style 9670 on offer… the question is, and still remains: How soon? The first rumors had the device hitting TELUS shelves in early November. With those days come and gone, it’s safe to say we should see it in-store and online very soon… and that looks…
Developers have had some time to play with RIM’s software development kit for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, and one, Universal Mind, is showing off what they’ve done so far with their fantasy football app. There’s a video below to see it in action in the simulator, and presuming that the device itself performs just as…
Dish Network is making a big push for TV everywhere, as the television provider is teaming with Dish to bring live TV to Android, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and BlackBerry devices. We knew the company planned this and most of the apps are now live. The Apple iPad version will be getting live streaming television…
As expected, the BlackBerry Torch 9800 is now available in white on Rogers. That’ll pair up nicely with the white Bold 9780 that Rogers will be launching in good time. Bell will have a red 9800 if you’re not digging the white. There are no white Torches in Canada available outside of Rogers by the…
Wind Mobile is gearing up for the holidays with their second Android device, the Alcatel Tribe OT-981. It runs 2.1, has a 2 megapixel camera, 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, Wi-Fi, GPS, and 3G. It’s a portrait-slider with a full QWERTY keyboard not unlike the Motorola Spice that Mobilicity launched yesterday. On top of that, Wind Mobile…
The BlackBerry Traffic application that has been chilling out in a closed beta format for the last couple of months is now done testing and available to the public at large for free. For those unfamiliar, it’s is a turn-by-turn directions app made by RIM that instead of showing a map, would display a simple…
As expected, T-Mobile has launched the BlackBerry Bold 9780 for $129.99 on a two-year contract.These are the first guys in the U.S. to actually start selling the refreshed Bold, but we can expect AT&T to launch theirs shortly too. Telus and Bell are already selling the 9780 up here in Canada, but Rogers seems to…
Aside from a prepared comparison with the iPad, the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet was a little camera shy at the Web 2.0 summit yesterday, but Engadget managed to score a few precious minutes with RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie for a quick tour. The video doesn’t show too much that we didn’t see at Adobe MAX, but…
Aside from dropping the bomb that the BlackBerry PlayBook would have a module cavity to upgrade the tablet, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie also mentioned at the Web 2.0 summit that they’d “be fools” not to include near-field communications in a BlackBerry smartphone in the near future. To corroborate Balsillie’s mention, rumour has it that RIM…