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Just a quickie here for any BlackBerry Torch 9800 users. If you use your Torch to listen to your favourite tunes while on-the-go, you’ll be more than pleased to know that Shazam has been updated with 9800 support. The app lets you quickly (and easily) identify almost any song, simply by triggering the app and…
Smartphone adoption is growing rapidly if you hadn’t noticed. In fact, smartphone adoption is growing so rapidly that 19% of all phones shipped today are smartphones. This is expected to grow even more, and much faster than it took to get where we are today. Smartphone shipments have gone up 12% since the first quarter…
Verizon has been getting their staff ready for BlackBerry 6 starting with an internal launch event two weeks ago, and is in the midst of testing device software that has been leaked for some time. One user who was running such a leaked OS (6.0.0.280) on the 9650 received a notification to update their e-mail…
The Wall Street Journal posted a poll to their site today for their readers to answer, asking which mobile operating system is the best. The results aren’t terrible surprising, but the margins between the winner and the runner-up are very surprising. The winner so far is Android, and it’s leaving every other mobile operating system…
For those of you tied into the LinkedIn app for BlackBerry, there’s a quick update to tell you about. Looks like the app is now compatible with BlackBerry 6, so if you’re on a compatible device running OS 6, LinkedIn is ready for you! The other big news in this update is an updated profile…
A couple of quick BlackBerry OS updates for you Berry addicts out there today. More specifically, these updates are for the Bold 9650 and Storm 2 9550. Both of these updates are official… rare to see two official OS releases on the same day! First off is 5.0.0.983 for the 9650. It comes to us…
The Retrevo 2010 Gadget Census has been conducted, and the results are in. Very interesting results I might add. As you can see from the infographic above, the spread of iPhone, Android and BlackBerry users is quite varied, with Android taking hold in the heart of the nation… and for whatever reason, the coasts seem…
Research In Motion was able to avoid a BlackBerry ban in the United Arab Emirates and it has now struck a deal with regulators and mobile operators to bring a variety of mobile services to the region. The deal could bring mobile payment and banking services to BlackBerry smartphones in the region and it’s a…
Verizon is rolling out software updates to owners of the BlackBerry Tour 9630, Bold 9650, and Curve 8530 tonight at around 6 PM EST. Before you get your hopes up, no, this isn’t OS 6, but rather some incremental stuff on top of OS 5. Both Verizon’s Tour and Bold will get some push-to-talk performance…
Habs fans, it looks like Bell has released a new Montreal Canadiens app for Android, BlackBerry and iOS. It’s no surprise that Bell has come to the table with this, being minority owner of the team and all… and, oh yes, the Canadiens do play in the Bell Centre, right? 🙂 The new app brings…