Archive for November, 2010

Microsoft is betting that its new Windows Phone 7 operating system for smartphones will help the company become a player again in a market that has mostly passed it by. Its newest tool to recruit interest in its WP7 smartphone operating system? Visual Basic. Yeah, this one of the first smartphone operating systems to officially ...

The BlackBerry Curve8980 (codenamed ‘Atlas’) has received FCC approval with official photographs but lacks 3G capabilities and comes with BlackBerry OS 5. The device was approved previously by the FCC but now the government agency has released the device’s documentation and pictures. The new curve might just be a China-only refresh of the Curve 8900 ...

Apple could be releasing a highly anticipated version of its iPhone 4 on Verizon Wirelesses network in the first three months of next year. That’s according to the Wall Street Journal in case you were wondering. This all begs the question though—are the rumors real? They’ve been around for three years now and only grow ...

  HTC’s new HD7 smartphone has been hit with an ‘Antennagate’ fiasco of its own and which is eerily similar to the problem that affects the iPhone 4. Multiple reports and video have come in that if the HD7—which launched exclusively on T-Mobile’s network in the US and runs Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 (WP7) operating ...

The company behind the BlackBerry—Research In Motion (RIM)—has had some new life breathed into its stock price (RIMM) by an analyst who believes that the all new QNX operating system that will first premier on company’s coming PlayBook tablet will make the Canadian based company relevant again. Jeffries & Co. analyst Peter Misek upgraded his ...

Apple has pulled an app described as ‘anti-gay’ by Change.org from its iTunes App Store after receiving more than 7,730 signatures in protest. The app, called the “Manhattan Declaration,” was created by a group co-founded by Chuck Colson—a conservative Christian evangelist and author who was arrested but never charged in the Watergate scandal prior to ...

   Now that Thanksgiving is over, it’s holiday shopping time. With Black Friday today, I decided to do a quick recap on the five new BlackBerry smartphones that Research In Motion (RIM) started selling this year. All of them will eventually get an update to BlackBerry OS 6 and three of the phones on the list already ...

Sprint is trying to keep its 4G momentum going and has just announced that it will offer free lunch in Los Angeles and Orange County to kick off Cyber Monday. The free lunches will be provided through lunch trucks—Larden, NomNom, Dan Dan BBQ and Louks Greek Gourment—from 11AM to 2PM. Don’t worry, I’ve got how ...

The highly anticipated Nexus S from Google and Samsung has been spotted on video, in pictures and now has some rumored specs. The biggest feature in the Nexus S will be its incorporation of near field communication (NFC) technology for mobile payment. The device will also herald the release of Android 2.3 ‘Gingerbread’ which improves ...

Japan has always been a somewhat different world and NTT DoCoMo’s new advertisement for the Galaxy S is no exception. Darth Vader shows up as the pitchman/metaphor for the Android powered smartphone in more than one advertisement from the carrier. Given the iPhone’s recent success in Japan, NTT has to do something since it lost ...

Nokia is looking to complement its smartphone lineup with phones designed for audio—the Xseries. Cue the Nokia X7-00 with its four speakers. Yes, you read that right. Surround sound smartphones aren’t just a fantasy. The X7-00 has even been spotted on video running a racing game (Need for Speed Shift to be exact) and poking ...

  According to Chinese language Economic Daily News, Apple’s iPad 2 will incorporate five new features that are sure to please tablet fans. The newspaper cites unnamed industry sources (Apple’s iOS lineup is built in China after all) that say the next generation of iPad will have video phone, better mobility, USB, new display technology and ...

Microsoft’s new WP7 OS for smartphones has received its first “developer mode unlock” which lets you install whatever you want on it. While this doesn’t address the PVK problems regarding WP7 and modified operating systems that can get you banned from Xbox Live, it does work and is reversible. Think of it like the WP7 ...

Motorola is building two smartphones for release in early 2011 that will be powered by NIVIDA Tegra 2 processors—the Motorola ‘Olympus’ and the Motorola ‘Etna’. While these are still just internal codenames for the devices, we do know that the Olympus will launch in January (according to BGR’s sources) on AT&T’s network while the Etna ...

  BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) pulled the Kik messenger app from its BlackBerry App World store a couple of weeks ago and now has practically disabled the app. The company has also banned Kik’s maker from the BB SDK and signing keys, which effectively means all future development on the BB version is dead. ...