Ad agency T.A.G (a unit of McCann) has apparently been chosen to work with Microsoft on what they openly referred to as the Pink project. It does exist! The rumours of Pink have floated around like vapourware for a long time now, but this certainly helps to cement its reality. The last we heard about…
Snapdragon-powered Toshiba TG01 UK unveiling on July 9
When it comes to super-slim and sexy smartphones with enough computing power to take over the world, the Toshiba TG01 takes the cake. Thanks to a power-packed Snapdragon chipset, the TG01 speeds along at 1Ghz clock speeds while playing with a hefty 256MB of RAM and a 4.1-inch WVGA (800 x 480) touchscreen display. The kicker…
GSM Palm Pre spotted in the wild
The Palm Pre’s biggest downfall is the network technology that it uses – the US-only CDMA standard. That fact alone limits the Palm Pre to the US. American GSM users and just about everyone else on Planet Earth will have to wait for Palm to launch the GSM variant that we spied in Barcelona. The…
Capacitance touchscreens for Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones?
We can only hope. The iPhone helped popularize the smartphone. The iPhone’s user-focused UI and more natural capacitance-based touchscreen has changed the mass-market’s expectation of what a smartphone should be. It’s just too bad Windows Mobile has yet to catch on – it’s still fully backing resistive touchscreens (you might know them as “squishy” touchscreens).…
Bluetooth SIG hints at Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade for HTC Snap!
The HTC Snap has already proven itself a top choice for cost-conscious smartphone fans looking for a Windows Mobile smartphone with a good QWERTY keyboard. But, with Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard running the show, the HTC Snap is going to feel a little dated when Microsoft launches Windows Mobile 6.5 later this year. Unless, that…
Bell BlackBerry Tour 9630 Arriving July 17th
Looks like BGR has managed to get his hands on an internal document/memo from Bell. Yesterday it was dummy devices and promo materials, today we have this! You can check out full details of the document after the jump… But for now a confirmed launch of the Bell BlackBerry Tour will come July 17th, with…
BlackBerry Tour 9630 Coming to Alltel
Ok lets see… Yeah we’ve got Bell and Telus, yeah… oh, and Sprint and Verizon has been all up in the news in the last little bit.. Who are we missing… What? Alltel is on the BlackBerry Tour scene as well!? Yep! Looks like good ‘ol Kevin over at CrackBerry has scored a few ‘spy…
Verizon BlackBerry Tour 9630 Coming July 12th for $199
On the heels of BlackBerry Tour 9630 dummy devices and promo materials arriving at Bell, some Verizon BlackBerry Tour news has dropped. BGR is reporting that the Verizon BlackBerry Tour 9630 will be available online and in stores July 12th. Look for it for $199 on the standard two-year contract. You can sign up for…
BlackBerry Tour 9630 Dummy Devices and Promo Materials Arrive at Bell
It’s only a matter of time now… You know, when you start hearing about dummy units and promo materials shipping to stores… it’s only a matter of weeks before the device pops up in-store. This time around I’m talking about the Bell BlackBerry Tour 9630, and thanks to BGR’s ‘ninjas’, we’ve got some pictures to…
BlackBerry Tour Due on Sprint July 20th?
When the BlackBerry Tour 9630 was announced a few weeks ago, Bell, Telus and Verizon availability wasn’t a surprise, but we hadn’t heard a peep about Sprint’s involvement. Now they’ve got the teaser page up along with notification sign-up, but nothing about a release date. Luckily, it has been released internally to Sprint that the…