After announcing how tablet sales for Rogers have been stronger than expected. At an event showcasing tablets the other night, Rogers VP John Boynton announced that they’ll be offering RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet early next year. So far we’ve heard some pricing rumors along with an estimated launch date quarter for the PlayBook but not [...]
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The WHERE Brings “Local Discovery Apps” for iOS and Androids
December 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Location media company “WHERE” launched its new local discovery service that “empowers and inspires people to discover their next favorite place.” At the moment, the mobile application is available for the iPhone and Android-powered devices, with release on BlackBerry and other major platforms (though we’re not sure which platforms) expected by year’s close. WHERE’s key [...]
AT&T, RIM Give Away Contest for Two BlackBerry Torch 9800
November 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
RIM, together with AT&T, are giving away a BlackBerry Torch 9800 via both Facebook and Twitter every day until Christmas. They are giving away one to a random Twitter user who posts a specific tweet and another to a Facebook contestant. You can enter in every day to win! Please note that the contest is [...]
Apple AirPlay Hack – now Allows iOS apps to Send Videos
November 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Apple recently released their iOS 4.2 update, and it came along with some great features. One of those features was AirPlay, which allows the user to stream videos from their device to an Apple TV connected television. Unfortunately, it only worked with Apple-approved apps, which meant no YouTube, or VLC. A developer by the name [...]
“Nokia Situations” announced: make your mobile behave according to situations
November 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Nokia has launched new app forNokia users called Nokia Situations, which you can use to define how you want your phone to behave in different situations, like “In a meeting”, “Sleeping”, or “Playing with the kids” The applications smartly will determine a certain condition based on a variety of parameters like time, GPS location, network [...]
ITG xpPhone comes with “Windows XP embedded-Smartphone”
November 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In Technology Group (ITG) has been toying with the idea of a Windows XP smartphone for close to 2 years, and is finally putting their xpPhone on the market. The xpPhone brings the embedded version of Windows XP to a large, 4.8 inch 800×480 touchscreen device with a slide out QWERTY keyboard. Besides the fact [...]
“Apple iOS 4.3 “- launching on December?
November 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Even though Apple just released iOS 4.2, its latest operating system for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, version 4.3 could be right around the corner. Earlier this month a secret project was reported between Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch (pictured above) to get people interested in paying for news again. French Apple fan site [...]
Dell “Inspiron Duo” set for pre-order at Microsoft Store online
November 24, 2010 By 1 Comment
Dell has been talking up its interesting convertible notebook called the Inspiron Duo for a while now. as another highly desirable piece of hardware has been made available at a Microsoft Store ahead of Dell: the transforming Inspiron Duo and its JBL-powered speaker dock.The machine isn’t like your typical convertible netbook where the entire LCD [...]
“Skype Mobile App” for 3 Verizon feature phones released
November 23, 2010 By
Skype Mobile application is now supported by three of Verizon’s feature phones using the BREW platform. This application allows the users to make free calls from Skype to Skype in the U.S. while taking advantage of Skype’s low International calling rates, and allows two people to chat via IM using the app Including phones from [...]
“Swype Apps” for Symbian Beta now with Support for French,German & Polish Languages
November 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The beta flavor of Swype for Symbian, the application the Swype team developed in collaboration with Nokia’s Beta Labs engineers, has just got enhanced with support for a wider range of languages. Swype provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen [...]
Nokia launches New C2-01 and X2-01 featurephones
November 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Today Nokia unveiled a couple of new entry-level additions to its mobile phone portfolio. The Nokia C2-01 is meant to be Nokia’s cheapest 3G phone, while the Nokia X2-01 has a full QWERTY keyboard as its key selling point. “Both [phones] aim to offer maximum functionality for the lowest price possible, but with a different [...]
Apple “iOS 4.2″ to be released at 10 am-Pacific Time
November 22, 2010 By 1 Comment
Apple has confirmed that iOS 4.2 will arrive today for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch users. (the company says by 10 a.m. Pacific Time), a free software update that brings the features of iOS 4 . Bringing a slew of new features to the device. Included in that laundry list is proper iOS 4-style multitasking, [...]
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