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The source of a video showing a BlackBerry PlayBook outside the vigilant auspices of RIM PR and marketing has suggested the three price points of the upcoming tablet. Apparently the version with 8 gigabytes of storage is going for $399, the 16 gigabyte one for $499 (both under $500 as promised) and the 32 gigabyte…
The upcoming Google Nexus S is one of the worst kept secrets in the history of Android devices. Not only was it shown off by Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, at the recent Web 2.0 Summit, but a number of pictures have slowly been trickling out showing us what this handset is capable of.…
The Droid Incredible was such a successful device for Verizon and HTC that most Android fans are probably salivating at the thought of an HD version with LTE. While some rumors put it at the end of this year, which is really unfathomable given Verizon’s LTE rollout plans, perhaps the latest rumor slating it for…
We already know the Sony PSP / Playstation phone is quite real, and that we should have a chance to grab this thing sometime in the future. But, according to the photo above, the PSP phone may actually launch sooner than we expected. Initially we were expecting the PSP phone to be announced sometime next…
Apple’s newest version of their iOS operating system that runs on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, came out less than 50 hours ago, and there’s already a rumor going around that another update, version 4.3, is going to be released quite soon. Earlier this month we reported about “The Daily”, a secret project between…
At this point, we’re considering any date to be the official announcement of Android 2.3, or Gingerbread. We’ve been waiting, and waiting, and waiting for some morsel of information, and once we saw this, it looked like the pieces may indeed be fitting together. Mr. Android, aka Andy Rubin, will be making an appearance at…
Next year we’re going to see two things in smartphones that are genuinely new and exciting: dual core processors, which will enable performance increases that we’ve yet to fully understand the ramifications of, and near field communication, an enabler of mobile payments and a totally new way of interacting with the real world. NVIDIA, looking…
Do a search for “Gingerbread” on Twitter and prepare to be jealous at the mass of people who are reporting that Google just pushed an update to their Nexus One with the latest version of the Android operating system. We’ve written about Gingerbread before, many times, but here’s pretty much all you need to know…
RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky has said CDMA iPhone production has been cut by a third in order to focus on iPads for the holidays. That means Verizon is still supposedly getting the iPhone, but only 20 (rather than 30) million of ’em. iPad production is said to be at around 40 million for…
Although most CEOs tend to be firm on not talking about unannounced products, Sony Ericsson’s Bert Nordberg is totally fine being coy about their upcoming PlayStation phone. Of the rumours, he said in an interview: “There’s a lot of smoke, and I tell you there must be a fire somewhere. Sony has an extremely strong…