The outstanding Sparrow Mail app for iOS has officially hit version 1.2 in the App Store and brings with it four awesome new features. Message Navigation: Navigate all messages via up/down swiping. A special indicator will display showing the difference between replies within a thread/conversation and entirely new emails. Landscape Composing: Self explanatory – landscape keyboard/compose window now enabled. Create/Edit Folders: Now Sparrow for iPhone users can...

The ongoing legal battle between Motorola and Apple in Germany over iCloud push email hit a new milestone today — with Apple being the loser. In a newly updated support document, Apple states that “due to patent litigation with Motorola, Mobile Me users in Germany are temporarily unable to use push Mobileme or iCloud email”. Other features such as calendars, contacts, etc. are still active and outside of the scope of the lawsuit. Naturally, Apple has...

It used to take a high-end, expensive smartphone to get mobile email. And in the earliest days of mobile email, the service and quality were terrible. These days, however, email is no more challenging the standard SMS/text messages. Highlighting this fact comes by way of a press release from Verizon this morning, detailing their new Microsoft Exchange-powered Mobile Email 4.0 app for feature phones. Yes, folks. Feature phones are now officially “smart” too. ...

With Windows Phone 7 (and some pretty awesome hardware) right around the corner, RIM’s saving grace, the Blackberry Torch, seems to be all but forgotten. But AT&T is making one last Torch push however, with two new colors: Pure White and Sunset Red. Besides the new paint job, there isn’t anything different to speak of — the hardware internals are identical. These two new color options will join the older charcoal Torch at $499 (sans contract) and...

Today is going to be a sad day for RIM. Dell has announced that they are replacing all of their 25,000 employees’ BlackBerries with Dell Venue Pros. 25,000! Doing so will supposedly save the company a solid 25% on phone costs. Even more noteworthy is that Dell is looking at creating a Dell eBay page where employees can sell their old, used BlackBerries back to the public. Speaking rather bluntly on the matter, Dell’s Chief Financial Officer Brian Gladden,...