According to Howard Forums moderator live_strong, Fido will be launching two new monthly prepaid plans later this month. Slated to go live March 28th, the plans are set to keep Fido competitive in the hotly contested mobile scene. Details of the plans are as follows: $19 50 daytime minutes (local) 300 evening/weekend minutes (local) 50…
Zer01 Mobile Webpage Disappears, Company Dead?
Remember Zer01, the guys who were promising to undercut all the major carriers with unlimited voice and data for $70/month using some heretofore unseen voodoo magic? Well, their website has disappeared into a puff of smoke a few days ago, without so much as a “Dear John” letter. To be fair, it’s only redirecting to…
Rumor: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater Coming to an iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad Near You?
Mike over at Redmond Pie made a little post the other day, one that iPhone gamers will want to take in. He noted that Tony Hawk leaked a photo on Twitter the other day… a photo of him (or someone) playing what looks to be a very familiar skateboarding game on the iPhone. Cool beans!…
Verizon to Charge BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express Users?
At Mobile World Congress, RIM announced a new BlackBerry corporate product called BES Express, meant to bring core enterprise mobility services usually associated with their premium enterprise server to small and medium businesses for free. There was some worry that this move would grind on carriers, who would lose out on juicy dollars from BES…
BlackBerry Slider Caught on Camera Again
It’s more than likely that the last batch of BlackBerry slider pictures left you unsatisfied, so here’s a fresh serving, showing the device side-by-side with the BlackBerry Curve 8900,and the rear, complete with the door off. Sure, it puts on a few millimeters for being in two parts, but as you can see, the difference…
BlackBerry 9650 Bold User Manual Leaked
Hot on the heels of rumours of an impending May release, the manual for the BlackBerry 9650 has leaked out, settling once and for all that yes, it will be called the Bold and not the Tour. Taking a quick flip through the PDF, features like OS 5.0, Wi-Fi and GPS, but not much else…
Dumbed-down Nexus One on its way to India?
The Nexus One is Google’s ‘vision’ of what a phone should be, although more so on the software side. Not to say it’s without its problems, but the Nexus One is currently the hottest device you can by at the moment. HTC is the hardware manufacture, and surely the internals of the Nexus One were…
Apple iPad pre-order rush snags 50,000 units in two hours
Whether or not you like the Apple iPad, and whatever your thoughts on its lack of Adobe Flash support may be, there’s no denying that Apple’s marketing hype just can’t be stopped. Case in point – following Apple’s move to open the doors to pre-orders this morning, reports are pegging initial sales at a whopping…
BlackBerry 9650 Bold/Tour/Essex to Launch in May?
The last we heard about the BlackBerry 9650, its release on Verizon and Sprint were being delayed due to software problems, and it was being renamed from the Tour2 to the Bold, but today, we’re hearing murmurs that the Verizon version will be launched sometime in May. For those with the original Tour, there’s news…
BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0 to Skip Two-Way GMail Sync?
Arguably the all-star feature of BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0, two-way synchronization with Google Mail, won’t make it to the final cut. A recently-released knowledgebase article outlines all of the features we were expecting, like OpenOffice document and WMA file support, including some smaller stuff, like polishing e-mail revalidation when switching devices, reclaiming deleted BlackBerry e-mail passwords, and…