November 3, 2009 - 8:30 am
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Looking to make a quick buck? For some, jumping such deals as Verizon’s BOGO smartphone offerings (such as the current BlackBerry BOGO going on), turning around and then canceling the second line and selling said handset at many times the normal price means some people have figured quite a good way to milk the [...]
November 3, 2009 - 7:49 am
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One of the greatest things about modern, mobile operating systems is the ability to download updates OTA (Over the air). While the iPhone requires you to tether up (hey, 200+ meg downloads on a mobile device via cellular network is gag inducing) and RIM + carriers haven’t really taken advantage of said feature in [...]
October 30, 2009 - 6:50 am
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After looking over some spec’s for Sprint’s 2010 lineup over at BGR, upon arriving at the very last bullet point my train of thought gets stopped dead in it’s tracks. It simply states
“No tethering for phones that require “Everything Plans”.
Essentially, that puts the kibosh on all smartphones. Pardon me if I’m over [...]
Penetrating and actually turning a buck in the lucrative and downright massive mobile user market in China has been the dream of many cellphone manufacturers. Given the Chinese government’s tight control however, such dreams have stayed at just that as stiff regulations and often odd rules make entering the market so difficult some manufacturers [...]
October 29, 2009 - 9:29 am
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Mobile users can watch the video here
It doesn’t seem like that long ago that custom “bottom dock” BlackBerry themes were the “it” thing with theme developers anxious over a UI layout that seemed rather simple. After watching the clip above, you can truly see how quickly BlackBerry themes have progressed in the relatively short [...]
October 28, 2009 - 2:02 pm
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**Warning: If you’re not a Michael Jackson fan, play this vid with mute enabled…you’ll quickly understand…
Not to steal any thunder from CDMA/Verizon users and their new found Jesus Christ Digital Superstar (aka: The Moto Droid), but the GSM Droid steals my attention in the video above. If you’re not quite sure you want to [...]
October 28, 2009 - 1:50 pm
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Music streamers and UK dwellers rejoice. If you’re a BlackBerry user who has been scowling in envy at your fellow iPhone toting friends with their fancy pants Spotify iPhone app, take comfort in knowing that your own version is coming soon. Very soon. Early 2010 to be exact if mocoNews is correct. [...]
I haven’t yet touched and felt the new Storm 2 for myself. But I can assure you I will be heading to the local Verizon store today to give it a try. Am I going to buy one? No! But after reading Zdnet’s review, my initial excitement at hardware based improvements [...]
October 28, 2009 - 7:59 am
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Products release dates getting pushed back are never fun at all. Starting with a sentence like that, you know that something now so smile inducing is following. Word is that the much lusted after T-Mobile BlackBerry 9700 decided to hold of it’s coming out party until November 16th. You know T-Mobile better [...]
**Update: There’s a fix folks. Find it here.
Disappointment for sure. It looks as if a nasty bug in the official BlackBerry 5.0 software renders custom BlackBerry Storm themes ugly and not quite so functional. The image above is from Kyle over at BlackBerry Cool and foreshadows a tidal wave of disappointment for [...]
The BlackBerry Storm 2 is an infant in the public’s eye yet reports are already circulating this morning that a rather nasty WiFi bug has made itself known. The issue stems around the device being unable to fully connect to a WiFi network which of course means no data and simultaneous voice for you. Word is that the beef should lie with Verizon, not RIM. Understandable, Verizon is a bit of a newcomer to this found WiFi technology on smartphones….