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A project sponsored by BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion in the UK proposes a bold new use for your battery door. By using piezoelectric technology (which stiffens materials based on electrical current), SkinDisplay is a concept which lets you press your finger into raised text messages on the back of your phone, and read the impression.…
A couple of late night BlackBerry OS updates for you folks tonight. One is very official, the second… well, it’s not so official (a leak). First off comes OS 6.0.0.380 for the BlackBerry Pearl 3G. It comes to us via Aircel, and yes, it’s official all the way. To get started, you can download the…
T-Mobile is continuing its trend of offering smartphones at ridiculously low prices – if not for free – with its latest offer. However, this time around all smartphones will be free with a new two-year contract. The deal will only be available on the 11th and 12th of this month. This Valentine’s day deal may…
Regardless of which OS has been taking the lead within the smartphone sales, be it Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Symbian, or webOS, a recent study by IDC has shown that the smartphone market is booming. Global smartphone saless over the course of 2010 rose 74% from 2009, totaling 302.6 million. In Q4 2010 alone,…
It’s a head-to-head-to-head-to-head matchup against the Dell Streak 7, Playbook, iPad and Motorola Xoom brought to us by Skattertech. Which device will come out on top (without looking back at the title of this post)? Read on to find out! The infographic is broken up into multiple parts with categories like connectivity, hardware, software, screen,…
In a a recent survey of 700 Verizon smartphone owners by uSamp, 54% of those currently owning either a BlackBerry or an Android phone said they were at least “somewhat likely” to switch to an iPhone 4 next week. 25% were “very likely”. BlackBerry users were more likely to make the switch, with 66% claiming…
By now, you should know a lot about the upcoming Research In Motion BlackBerry PlayBook, as we’ve had multiple hands-on videos of the device but I thought one more dedicated solely to the gesture controls could be useful. As you may know, the BlackBerry PlayBook sports a 7-inch screen with a high resolution but there’s…
It hasn’t been too long since we got some hands-on time with the BlackBerry PlayBook at CES 2011 but the QNX software continues to improve and this is the first time we’ve actually seen the device in portrait mode. As you can see from the video below, the BlackBerry PlayBook quickly rotates between portrait and…
RIM has launched a new app in a limited beta called BlackBerry Radio. It basically jams up streaming music service from apps like Slacker, Pandora and iheartradio, as well as traditional radio networks like Corus into a single, unified discovery mechanism. You can either play the audio streams right through the app, buy songs that…
Some research by Bernstein has revealed that Nokia has spent upwards of $3.9 billion on research and development, which is close to three times as much as the average spent by competing mobile manufacturers. Okay, sure, Nokia is still the biggest in the world (for the time being), so it’s not entirely surprising. Samsung was…