BlackBerry Internet Service 2.6 will be bringing some worthwhile updates mid-March, according to the latest rumours, including: Better Gmail Integration Accessing Gmail through IMAP instead of current POP interface Provides one-way (BB Gmail) sync of read / unread status, delete, & sent items Eliminates duplicate message issue on sent items This new integration works with…
Bell News: Palm Treo Pro and BlackBerry Pearl Flip Launch Dates
Yesterday I reported some rough launch dates for a few devices on Bell, including the Palm Treo Pro, BlackBerry Pearl Flip, and more. Today, some visual proof that the Treo Pro and BlackBerry Pearl Flip are indeed coming to Bell. As you can see in the image below, the Palm Treo Pro is set to…
Nokia bringing two new touchscreen handsets to MWC?
With a little luck, we’ll see the Finnish cellphone giant pushing a new lineup of touchscreen smartphones on the Fira de Barcelona show-floor at Mobile World Congress next week. In a video interview with the Nokia N97 designer, Nokia shows off a couple new touchscreen smartphones with impressive feature-sets. The two new finger-friendly Nokia handsets…
Gigabyte’s GSmart S1200 Windows Mobile smartphone coming to Mobile World Congress
Gigabyte is preparing to roll-out new phones at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We’ve heard the company will unveil the 0.43-inches thick (or that’s thin) GSmart S1200, the all-touchscreen device that runs Windows Mobile 6.1 with Gigabyte’s own UI called Smart Zone on top of it. We don’t have much details at this…
White BlackBerry Pearl Flip Spotted Again
At the aforementioned RIM shindig there was what would otherwise be a throwaway slide featuring the front of a white BlackBerry Pearl Flip, apparently the same one we saw back in September. A picture of a Verizon BlackBerry 8230 in silver recently popped up, and this looks to be the very same CDMA Pearl Flip.…
Proof of BlackBerry Visual Voicemail in AT&T’s online account management webpage
If you had any doubts that Visual Voicemail functionality was en route to your BlackBerry, let this latest find put that uncertainty to rest. Boy Genius Report has found that the BlackBerry Visual Voicemail option is now visible on AT&T’s online account management web page. The appearance of Visual Voicemail in AT&T’s own internal BlackBerry…
Alcatel and LEGO Team Up to Produce the LEGO Phone
First off, let me say, that if this is true.. this is awesome 🙂 An anonymous tipster over at BGR has let them know that a partnership is in place to bring a new device to market. This so-called partnership between Alcatel and Lego will produce a device resembling the iconic kids’ toys that we’ve…
Sprint readying Samsung Instinct Mini?
Sprint must really be busy readying new hardware, what with their continued delays in getting the Sprint Palm Treo Pro out to the waiting public. One of the new pieces of hardware rumored for Sprint’s 2009 lineup is smaller, thinner variant of Sprint’s most-popular smartphone, the Samsung Instinct. The original Sprint Samsung Instinct has the…
Paid Android apps hitting Android Market next week?
Could Google be gearing up to offer paid apps in the Android Market starting next week? It might just happen. We’ve been expecting Google to start accepting premium, for-pay Android applications into the Android Market sometime in this half of 2009. And, with T-Mobile currently rolling out the Android RC33 update to T-Mobile G1 owners…
Latest Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots confirm Outlook Live, Marketplace, and My Phone branding
Just yesterday, Microsoft re-branded their SkyBox phone data-synchronization service as “My Phone.” Today, we see the cloud-sync service hanging out with the other WinMo applications in the latest Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshot leak. Most impressive in the new screenshots is the refreshed Windows Media Player UI. With a more finger-friendly interface, the new WM Player…