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An anonymous VP at AT&T has indicated that the iPhone 5 will be launched in early October, and employees should “expect things to get really, really busy”. That’s a slight push back from the mid-September timeframe that was previously expected, but no doubt iPhone loyalists will be able to hold out for a few more…
It looks like your hopes for an iPad 3 under the Christmas tree are taking another kick in the teeth. Anonymous sources are claiming that the first trial run of Retina display-packing iPad 3s are scheduled for October with a launch expected in early 2012. The rumoured 2048 x 1536 screen resolution and 9.7-inch size still…
We had heard a few weeks ago that RIM was busy working on their own subscription-based music service that would tie in with BlackBerry Messenger. Rumour has it RIM has already signed at least one of the big music labels (Universal, Sony, Warner, and EMI), and that another two are just about ready to close a deal.…
Few of you need a brief history lesson when it comes to how long it took LG to start making some decent Android smartphones. If I could sum it up in just two words for you, they would be “a while.” The first sexy LG handset that comes to mind when I think of Android…
Apple is sued for allegedly selling refurbished iPhone handsets as new in China, which is a pretty damn big deal if it’s true. I’d like to think there is more to this story, so hopefully we’ll get to the bottom of it sooner than later. But I can’t imagine what it must be like to…
The Droid Bionic for Verizon is coming in just a few weeks, as we’ve learned not too long ago, and as its launch date approaches, we are learning additional details for the 4G LTE device. It turns out that the Bionic will have a 4.3″ qHD screen, which isn’t much of a surprise given the…
A leaked CostCo memo has revealed that T-Mobile will be launching the BlackBerry Curve 9360 on September 14. Even though it’s a lower-end device than the recently-announced Bold 9900, it’s just as likely to get NFC and mobile hotspot capabilities. Based on what we’ve heard, the BlackBerry Curve 9360 should have a 480 x 360…
Last week an infographic made by The Economist was floating around on the internet that we didn’t cover because … hey, there’s only so many inforgraphics you can shove in people’s faces before they get bored, right? Anyway, one of the key pieces of data in said graphic was that of the $178 worth of…
According to an anonymous source who spoke to Engadget, AT&T recently installed some 4G LTE equipment inside an as yet to be identified Apple Store. Said equipment pumps out LTE goodness at 700 MHz, which is no surprise, but also on the AWS bands that AT&T said it would use once their acquisition of T-Mobile…
According to the latest rumours, the BlackBerry Colt may make it to market before the end of 2011, even though the last we heard of RIM’s first QNX smartphone was aiming for early 2012. In its current testing phase, the Colt apparently couldn’t plug into BlackBerry Enterprise Servers, and was running a single-core processor. We’ve…