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While BlackBerry may be quickly losing ground to the competition here in North America (and worldwide, for that matter), they’re still doing fine in the UK, according to a recent study by GfK Group. RIM’s lineup beat out Apple’s by claiming 28.2% of UK smartphone sales for 2010, which includes moving 500,000 units over the…
A quick update for all the iPhone users out there with Twitterrific on-board. A few days ago, the good folks at The Iconfactory updated their uber-popular Twitter client. While the update isn’t a major one, this latest version does pack quite a few new settings. The updates include: Fixes to reduce API server errors Added…
The Verizon iPhone 4 is going to be here very soon, and those of you who are existing customers get to stake your claim before the masses rush in. When the Verizon iPhone 4 was announced a few weeks ago in NYC, we were told that on February 3, current customers would have the option…
When I heard Dead Space for iOS was going to be released to fill the gap between the console versions of Dead Space and Dead Space 2, I was a little skeptical as games like that usually don’t offer that great of an experience as they’re usually produced to take advantage of fans who want…
The latest phone shipment numbers are out from IDC and you have a few familiar faces at the top but the rise of ZTE and the lack of Motorola and Research In Motion from the top five gives us some interesting fodder to talk about. The IDC report said Nokia is still the dominant phone…
We all know that the Verizon iPhone will be a big hit but how many units will it sell? Well, at least one analyst is saying that this will be huge: 19 million feature phone users may switch over to the Apple smartphone on Big Red. Analyst William Power of R.W. Baird & Co. got…
We’ve seen some pretty amazing things made with the iPhone camera. Whether it’s a motorcycle commercial filmed entirely by the Apple smartphone or a professional photographer taking stunning headshots, it seems that artists out there are putting out some top-notch work. Now a pair of film students are producing a TV series shot entirely with…
Samsung is one of the few handset manufactures who actually make most of the components that go into mobile phones. Unlike Apple and Nokia, Samsung makes screens, memory, and we all know about the Hummingbird inside the Galaxy S, Galaxy Tab, and their upcoming dual core Orion chip that’s destined to go into the successors…
MacRumors got hold of an email sent out to Verizon corporate customers that details the pre-order process for the Verizon iPhone. When the iOS handset was announced, Verizon confirmed that its customers would be able to pre-order the Apple smartphone starting February 3rd, one full week before its public launch on February 10th. Thanks to…
What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen anyone try to smuggle through airport security? Perhaps it was some strange animal, plant, food or trinket of some kind, but what about a whole load of iPhones strapped to someone’s body? That’s exactly what an Israeli woman tried to do at Ben Gurion airport. While she was…