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Summertime is in full swing, and you’ve got the inkling to get the hell out of Dodge. Not surprisingly your friends do too, which is when you all decide to go on a road trip. Maybe it’s just an hour out of town to the cottage, maybe it’s an epic cross-continent trek that will generate…
The latest numbers have come out from comScore and it has some revealing stats about the state of the U.S. smartphone market. Basically, Apple and Android are winners while RIM and Microsoft are the losers. Perhaps helped by the Verizon iPhone, Apple iOS was able to surpass RIM’s BlackBerry OS in overall market share. Apple…
Yesterday an open letter to RIM by a high-level executive was published by Boy Genius Report, and it seemed to mirror the sentiment that many BlackBerry fans have been airing for years. The lack of confidence in that particular RIM employee is probably rampant amongst other employees and perhaps even other executives. RIM and the…
BlackBerry users reliant on Google for web search have a few improvements to look forward to today. The search giant has just updated web search for BlackBerry 6.0 WebKit-enabled handsets, so searches are faster and auto-complete populates quicker as you type. Overall, the experience should make life a little easier for BlackBerry smartphone users with…
Research In Motion’s BlackBerry lineup isn’t really known for its photographic ability but the powerful Bold 9900 is taking things up a notch. With a 5-megapixel camera that can do 720p HD, can this replace a point and shoot? I found the pictures on the Bold 9900 to be good but not great. I personally…
It’s been a while since we’ve seen the BlackBerry Bold 9900 at BlackBerry World but the super cool people at Negri Electronics hooked us up with a unit to get another spin with the most powerful Bold yet. This probably won’t land for a couple of months but the video below and pictures should hold…
Last year Hertz unveiled its iPhone app and now they are going for the rest of the (smartphone) market. In partnership with Grapple Mobile, European branch of the car rental company launched three new free apps for Android, Symbian (Nokia) and Blackberry devices, allowing users to reserve a car, change their reservation or log-in and…
While it’s not the massive, full-year roadmap that was leaked for T-Mobile, Sprint’s Q3 roadmap has been dug up and will offer a nice chunk of new devices. Whether or not it’s enough to do battle with the likes of Verizon’s LTE arsenal others, Sprint stands a good chance of wooing some people over. Maybe.…
I have some bad news if you’re using the Seesmic app on BlackBerry, as the company will soon stop supporting the app in favor of other platforms. This can’t be a good sign for Research In Motion and its goal of attracting and keeping developers. On its blog, Seesmic is short and to the point:…
Nielson released some new information regarding how smartphone data usage has changed in the past year and it shows that usage has gone up even though prices haven’t. It’s no doubt that the amount of smartphones in the market has increased dramatically and this is all thanks to the growth of Android and the iPhone…