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Gowalla’s social check-in app for BlackBerry has updated their beta to include commenting on others’ check-ins and photo uploading to spots, along with a few nice keyboard shortcuts. It still seems like they’re hung up on the iPhone’s way of doing notifications of friend check-ins (through obnoxious popups), but maybe someday before 1.0 they’ll discover…
The rather unexciting BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 rumoured to be going to T-Mobile, Verizon, Bell, and Rogers will be finding its way to Vodafone UK around Q3, if this source of this internal document is to be believed. BlackBerry OS 5.0.0.832 has been approved, so it seems unlikely that the Kepler will be launching with…
After a lot of talk about a new BlackBerry Storm, we’re starting to see something at least half-way concrete. If you relax your eyes and squint a bit while staring at this leaked slide, first you’ll see a 3D sailboat, then you’ll see a short spec list including BlackBerry OS 6 and the new Webkit…
The BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 (Kepler) is coming to Rogers. I bet you were wondering when news of this was going to hit, right? Before we talk about it, let’s recap recent goings on. Just yesterday, we told you about the 9300 and how it is making the journey to Bell. A leaked leaflet shows…
The upcoming BlackBerry Kepler spotted on the way to T-Mobile as the 9300 and rumoured to be going to Verizon as the 9330 is apparently coming to Bell in Canada, too. This unreleased Bell leaflet shows the 9300 branded as the Curve 3G, and confirms that it indeed has just as much memory as the…
RIM has just released a new tool for developers (announced back at BBDC) that allows them to incorporate location data in their apps without relying on a GPS unit. This is generally lower-power and faster than GPS, since it’s just pulling on cell tower data that’s already active rather than waiting on a satellite lock.…
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…