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Despite all the super cool video-streaming capabilities of things like Hulu Plus, a new survey from Nielsen indicates that e-mail is the most common mobile Internet activity. As you can see from the chart above, mobile e-mail is the most common activity, followed by portals, social networks and search. I expect a few of these…
The iPhone and Android operating systems are taking the US by storm, and it seems Google’s mobile OS has just surpassed Apple’s little darling of a smartphone in sales this past quarter – Android comprised 27% of last quarter’s smartphone sales, while the iPhone accounted for 23%. Meanwhile, it seems that most BlackBerry owners aren’t…
Research In Motion just sent me an outline of their position regarding the United Arab Emirates’ ban of BBM, browser, and e-mail BlackBerry data, although it’s mostly in general terms since they can’t discuss ongoing negotiations. RIM is still somewhat defensive, however, stating that governments should have the tools necessary to fulfill their own security…
Last week, Google Maps for Android was updated with a new feature that placed two new icons in your library for Places and Latitude. The prior let you quickly find places within a certain category on Google Maps for mobile, while the latter is the well-established location-sharing service. Latitude’s been on BlackBerry for awhile, and…
Last week there was talk about BlackBerry getting banned in the United Arab Emirates, as RIM’s data handling is proving too secure for governments. Since BlackBerry data gets sent to the servers in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, government agencies have a hard time getting access to it, and as such people communicating through that channel can…
I’m not sure whether to chalk this up to a false alarm, or if this is the real deal… but the TELUS BlackBerry Curve 3G (aka the BlackBerry 9300, aka ‘Kepler‘) has shown up on the TELUS website for all to see. The funny thing is, TELUS appears to be listing the device as the…
Analysts at Canalys have crunched the latest facts and figures from everyone’s Q2 financial results and have unearthed that smartphones shipments grew 64% world wide compared to Q2 2009, and that the number of Android device that have shipped in the same year on year period has increased a startling 886%. Nokia has maintained their…
Apple is apparently done with all the iPhone 4 antenna mud-slinging that’s been going on between itself and smartphone competitors like Motorola and RIM. Today, the iPhone maker has removed all the videos it had previously posted on its “Antenna” page, which showed devices like the Motorola Droid X and Nokia N97 Mini exhibiting a…
Are you all a-twitter for the BlackBerry Curve 3G for some reason? We heard it’s coming to Bell August 12, and now we know it’ll be available for $49.95 on a 3-year contract, or $349.99 off contract. Colours will include graphite and fuschia. The BlackBerry 9300, code-named Kepler once upon a time, is an astoundingly…
Two “people familiar with the company’s plans” say RIM’s planning to launch their BlackBerry tablet, recently outed as the BlackPad, in November 2010. Previous estimates put a release in that ballpark, so it seems likely enough. The source also confirms the initial speculation that the device would connect to a BlackBerry smartphone via Bluetooth for…