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So you want the brand new BlackBerry Curve 9380 along with a T-Mobile contract? You’ll be glad to know that such version of the device (with support for WCDMA band IV) has been caught at the FCC, where the government-paid engineers are testing its radiation levels, making sure the smartphone is safe to be used…
Amazon is kicking off the holiday shopping season early by offering multiple, high-end smartphones for a penny when you sign up for a new, two-year contract. Additionally, if you get a phone with a hotspot and activate it, then you can get a $100 Amazon gift card. We’re not talking about junk smartphones either, as…
If for some odd reason, you’ve been considering the BlackBerry PlayBook but couldn’t pull the trigger just yet, you may as well wait until next week because Staples will be offering Research In Motion’s first tablet for $199 during its Black Friday sale. That $200 will get you the 16 GB BlackBerry PlayBook with 7-inch…
Mobile payments company CHARGE Anywhere launched a mobile app for BlackBerry 7 devices, allowing merchants to process payments while on the go. What’s more, their solution also works with gift and loyalty cards, effectively turning compatible smartphone into a fully functional point-of-sale terminal. If you haven’t heard of CHARGE Anywhere before, here’s what you should…
Android’s momentum is still going strong, as the latest Gartner numbers said the platform had 52.5 percent of worldwide smartphone sales to end users for the third quarter of 2011. That’s a rather impressive figure and it’s even more impressive when you consider that Gartner said its market share in this category doubled from the…
If you’re a fan of our giveaways, you’ll know that we’ve been giving away a number of Android & iOS devices in the past, so the faithful BlackBerry fans might be justified in complaining we don’t show any giveaway love to their smartphone of choice. That ends today as we’ve got not only a BlackBerry…
Our Norwegian friends at Opera Software [Disclosure: Photo above from an event last month that they invited me to and paid for both my flight and hotel] have just released a new version of Opera Mini for devices that run Symbian, Java applications, the Apple iPhone, and RIM’s BlackBerry lineup. With version 6.5 the most…
If you’re jonesing to get your hands on the latest BlackBerry, than you’d better head over to T-Mobile because the carrier just announced that it will be offering the BlackBerry Torch 9810 with 4G speeds. The BlackBerry Torch 9810 sports a 3.2-inch TFT VGA capacitive touchscreen, a 1.2 GHz processor, a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard,…
There’s a good side of the recent Blackberry outage that prompted RIM’s CEO to publicly apologize for all the inconvenience and even offer some apps free of charge. The police in the United Arab Emirates claims the outage led to a significant dropoff in traffic accidents in the past week or so. Of course, there’s…
We’re live from the BlackBerry DevCon conference and we’re just minutes away from the keynote. We’re expecting a lot out of RIM today, as the company is in the middle of a public relations and investor confidence nightmare. Not only has BlackBerry been losing market share to the likes of Apple and Google, RIM just…