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RIM's CEO thinks Windows Phone is "confusing"
And now for the painfully ironic story of the day.... RIM CEO Thorsten Heins, the same guy responsible for shipping the infinitely elusive BlackBerry OS 10, thinks that the Windows Phone platform is "confusing" and that Microsoft...
Apple Responds to Criticisms over Environmental Rating Standard
Apple received a lot of criticism after a decision to pull its products from the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) registry. One of the most prominent criticisms comes from the San Francisco‘s Department...
Video reveals a hidden Nexus 7 “Smart Cover” Feature
Is Google’s Nexus 7 magnetic feature copied from Apple’s iPad? Just as the Nexus 7 made its debut, a controversial YouTube clip surfaced that could spell trouble for Google. The video features a curious user revealing...
Guess how RIM's patent tries to stop drivers from texting!
Texting while driving - now there's a heated topic. And for good reason! Some reports suggest that a texting driver is 23x more likely to get into a wreck than a non-texting driver. Yet, despite those alarming statistics, over...
Sprint Offering Maintenance Update for the Motorola Photon
Are you the happy owner of a Motorola Photon 4G on Sprint? If so, your cell provider has a treat for you today and it comes in the form of an over-the-air software update for your beloved phone via the Now Network. What can you...
Android Dominates Smartphone Sales in US, Europe and Australia
Android has increased its dominance in the US, European and Australian markets according to a recent study by research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. This is the first time that Android has dominated major markets which include...
Amazon GameCircle Offers Social Gaming to Kindle Fire
Aside from rumors about developing a new smartphone, Amazon is again creating buzz with its new social gaming service called GameCircle for the Kindle Fire tablet. GameCircle will equip game developers with helpful tools to create...
Does Amazon already have a smartphone in testing?
Last week we heard rumors that online giant Amazon was working on its own smartphone to compete with Google, Apple and others. That rumor is heating up even more today thanks to a report by the Wall Street Journal. According...
Sprint Releases Ice Cream Sandwich Update for Samsung Galaxy S II & Epic 4G
The much awaited software update for Sprint’s Samsung Galaxy S II and the Epic 4G Touch is now available via an over-the-air update. As posted on Sprint’s official community board, the Ice Cream Sandwich update for...
Amazon Is Working With Foxconn To Build Its Own Phone, Average Mobile Plans Have Dropped In Price & What If You Could Combine The iPhone And The Samsung Galaxy S III Into One?
Nokia And Namco Bandai Bring Arcade Classics To Asha Touch Line Whoever said low-cost phones have to miss out on the portable perks? Nokia's throwing an old school bone to buyers of its budget-minded Asha Touch line, linking up...
Motorola Atrix HD Landing Page Pops Up, Google Now Ported Over To Android 4.0 & A Cotton T-Shirt May One Day Charge Your Cell Phone
Motorola Atrix HD Landing Page Pops Up, Gives Us the Full Spec List Motorola apparently thought it was time to post up the Atrix HD in all its glory on their official website. According to Motorola’s own site, it is definitely...
Virgin Mobile Launches Contract-Free HTC One V, Fido Shifting Towards Per-Minute Billing July 4th & Judge Lets Galaxy Nexus Sales Ban Stand
Virgin Mobile Launches Contract-Free HTC One V For Just $199 The chin is in at Virgin Mobile — the Sprint-owned prepaid wireless carrier has quietly launched one of HTC’s latest and greatest smartphones, the entry-level-but-quite-capable...
GreatCall Outs Jitterbug Plus - A Phone Without All The Smarts, Ice Cream Sandwich Passes 10% of Android Installations & Koodo Confirms The Nokia Lumia 610 Will Be Available Friday
GreatCall Outs Samsung-Made Jitterbug Plus, For Folks Who Want A Phone Without All The Smarts Adding features to a senior-friendly phone kind of defeats the purpose, but a sleeker design, improved battery life and boosted speaker?...
Bell’s Upcoming LG Optimus L5 To Be $199.95, RIM Is Hurting, But It’s Not Dead Just Yet & Apple Bids Farewell to Paid Cloud Service MobileMe
Bell’s Upcoming LG Optimus L5 To Be $199.95 Outright Last week we let you know that Bell has plans to release the entry-level LG Optimus L5 on July 10th. This Android device is still on track and we now have the confirmed no-term...
Nokia Pushes Lumia 800 And 710 Update, TELUS Offering A $50 Credit To Customers & iOS Users More Loyal To Apps Than Android
Nokia Pushes Lumia 800 And 710 Update Nokia today said that a system update for the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 is now available worldwide. The update, first announced last week at a Microsoft event, does not change the system software...
Smartphone Market To Grow 38% In Q2 2012, Qualcomm SDK Promises Consumers Reasons To Stick With Snapdragon & Foursquare Update Now Available For BlackBerry Users
Smartphone Market To Grow 38% In Q2 2012 Market research firm Strategy Analytics now projects that smartphone shipments will grow 38% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2012, although the firm cautions that growth could stall...
Bell Releasing The LG Optimus L5, Facebook Changes Users’ Email Addresses To Their Own & Microsoft Confirms They Won’t Be Making Their Own Windows Phones
Bell Releasing The LG Optimus L5 On July 10th Yes, as expected, the LG Optimus L5 is coming to Canada and heading for the shelves at Bell. The L5 is a “perfect upgrade for those looking to replace their voice and messaging...
Nokia Air Promo Surfaces, Samsung Expects Sales Of The Galaxy S3 To Pass 10 Million & Facebook Launches Mobile Feature ‘Find Friends Nearby’
Nokia Air Promo Surfaces, Teases What Could Have Been In some alternate timeline, droves of Nokia fans are enjoying seamless cloud syncing on Symbian handsets. Here on Earth-One, however, we'll have to settle for watching a leaked...
Droid RAZR And RAZR Maxx Android 4.0 Update Incoming, Rogers Waiving The Activation Fee & GSMA Convinces 24 Operators to Warn About Data Rates
Droid RAZR And RAZR Maxx Android 4.0 Update Incoming: Roll-Out Starts June 22 Looking likely to sneak through in time for Motorola's Q2 deadline, Verizon has published support documents covering an Ice Cream Sandwich update for...
Huawei Brings Out Ascend P1 2600 mAh XL, Windows Phone 8 Is A Great Big, Crazy, Beautiful Mess & Koodo Preparing To Launch LTE Network?
Huawei Brings Out Ascend P1 2600 mAh XL For Battery Junkies, Throws In E5151 Hotspot Huawei's presence at Mobile Asia Expo this year has a distinct flavor of RAZR Maxx about it. The Ascend P1 is getting a fresh 2600 mAh XL variant...
TELUS Releases The Bold 9900 In White, Nokia Lumia Devices Now Present In 54 Markets & Ex-Googlers Launch MightyText
TELUS Releases The Bold 9900 In White The BlackBerry Bold 9900 is still RIM’s best smartphone and it’s almost 1-year old. Clearly it’s certainly not the newest device on the block, but another colour is always welcomed. TELUS...
HTC Acknowledges One X WiFi Bug, Google Is Pushing Forward On Its Siri Rival & % of People Have Used Their iPhone While Having Sex
HTC Acknowledges One X WiFi Bug On Tegra 3 Models There's always some snag with these big flagship devices it seems. The iPhone 4 had antennagate, Verizon's Galaxy Nexus couldn't seem to stay connected and the One X is joining...
TELUS Making Changes To Prepaid Data, Nokia 808 PureView Expected To Make US Debut & Does Auto Layout In iOS 6 Mean A Larger iPhone Screen Is Coming?
Nokia 808 PureView Expected To Make US Debut Nokia’s 808 PureView stunned audiences when it was announced at this year’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona — a smartphone with a 41-megapixel sensor was unheard of. The device...
TELUS Shuffles The No-Term Pricing Of The Galaxy S III, Microsoft And Nokia Bring Enhanced Data To Windows Phone & Meet Bluetooth Headset Pairing With 2 Devices
TELUS Shuffles The No-Term Pricing Of The Upcoming Galaxy S III When the Samsung Galaxy S III launch date was announced TELUS’ business site posted the complete price points. They also gave the option to pre-order with the...
Koodo Mobile To Launch The Nokia Lumia 610, Nokia 'Sharpens Strategy' By Dropping Three Executives & HTC Won’t Use Cheap Phones To Bolster Sales
Koodo Mobile To Launch The Nokia Lumia 610 The Nokia Lumia 610 is coming to Canada and now it looks like it’s heading towards Koodo Mobile. This Windows Phone powered device will be available sometime this Summer and it looks...
Sony Outs Xperia Ion HSPA For Poor 4G-Lacking Citizen, HTC Will Acquire S3 Graphics & Samsung Unveils TecTiles
Sony Outs Xperia Ion HSPA For Poor 4G-Lacking Citizens Sony Mobile casually dropped onto its website that in addition to the expected Xperia Ion flagship, it's also releasing an Xperia Ion HSPA. The handset's only readily apparent...
Samsung Galaxy S III Pre-Orders Ended, The Top 5 Features Of iOS 6 Announced & HTC One X Users Report iPhone 4-Like ‘Death Grip’ For Wi-Fi
Samsung Galaxy S III Pre-Orders Ended By Future Shop And Best Buy, Caused By “Tremendous” Response The Samsung Galaxy S III has been on sale in other countries for a couple weeks now and will officially land on Canadian soil on...
Motorola’s Next Super Phone Leaked, Tablets And Smartphones Are Turning Handheld Gaming Devices Into A Niche & Samsung To Acquire Nokia?
HTC One X Gets Unofficial Builds Of CyanogenMOD 9 And AOKP Slowly but surely the North American version of the HTC One X is catching up to its international Tegra 3 counterpart. In recent days working builds of CyanogenMOD 9 and...
Sony Keeps Xperia Upgrade Train Rolling, Facebook's App Center Officially Launches & Developers Still More Interested In iOS Than Android
Sony Keeps Xperia Upgrade Train Rolling, Brings ICS To Mini Pro Software update sagas typically center around carriers and OEMs failing to deliver to users in a timely manner -- or, even at all. Not so with Sony, which continues...
Rogers To Begin Selling The Nokia Lumia 710 In White, Samsung’s ChatON Messaging Service Comes To Windows Phone & Foxconn Workers Rise Up Against Security Guards
Rogers To Begin Selling The Nokia Lumia 710 In White, Confirms Lumia 900 In Cyan Rogers will also begin selling the Lumia 710 in white. The product will still have exchangeable backplates in colours such as cyan, magenta, yellow...
Nokia Launches Asha 305, Asha 306 And Asha 311, Netflix Passes Apple To Take Lead In Online Movie Business & SCHOTT Claims Xensation Glass Is Toughest
Nokia Launches Asha 305, Asha 306 And Asha 311, Its First Full-Touch Series 40 Handsets Nokia has launched three new touch screen devices for its Asha series, as it looks to bridge the gap between feature phones and smartphones...
Samsung Canada Giving Away 3 Galaxy S III, HTC Officially A Maker Of PlayStation Certified Handsets & Android Smartphone Sales Sink In U.S. For Fourth Consecutive Month
Samsung Canada Giving Away 3 Galaxy S III Devices The Samsung Galaxy S III will be widely available in on June 20th, which is just over 2 weeks away. To keep the momentum high for this flagship Android device Samsung Canada has...
Cricket Introduces A $55 Monthly Prepaid Plan For The iPhone, Galaxy Note Reaches 7m & RIM Finally Gets Some Good News
Cricket Introduces A $55 Monthly Prepaid Plan For The iPhone Starting next month, you can buy an iPhone 4S without deciding between a $650 price tag and a two-year commitment. On June 22, Leap Wireless’s prepaid subsidiary Cricket...
Samsung Galaxy S III Announced For Canada, Rogers To Increase Unlimited Value Plans & Can Your Mobile Apps Be Trusted?
Samsung Galaxy S III Announced For Canada With 2GB Of RAM, 1.5GHz Dual-Core Processor The Canadian variant of the Samsung Galaxy S III will scrap the quad-core Exynos processor found in the European version and instead feature...
Batman Nokia Lumia 900 Announced, RIM Still Dominates The Canadian Mobile Industry & Doxo Now Lets You Receive & Pay Bills From Your Mobile Device
Batman Nokia Lumia 900: Limited Edition Phone Heading To UK Nokia has confirmed to Pocket-lint that it will be selling a limited-edition Nokia Lumia 900 at Phones4U in the UK very shortly. The new phone, like the extremely limited-edition...
Nearly One Million iOS Devices Jailbroken Over Holiday Weekend, Samsung's 'Human Centric' Galaxy S III Launches Around The Globe & TELUS HTC Amaze Update To ICS Expected
Nearly One Million iOS Devices Jailbroken Over Holiday Weekend Absinthe 2.0, the untethered jailbreak solution for iOS 5.1.1, has already been downloaded almost one million times. According to the Chronic Dev Team, 973,086 devices...
LG Claims 3m LTE Smartphone Sales, Facebook To Launch Smartphone Next Year & How The Future of Mobile Lies in the Developing World
LG Claims 3m LTE Smartphone Sales, Plans To Double Its International Focus LG has claimed that it has sold more than 3 million LTE-compatible smartphones worldwide, and revealed plans to extend the sale of its LTE range to 10...
Samsung Galaxy S III Shows In Best Buy Canada Leak, Facebook Launches Camera App For iOS & Nvidia’s Icera LTE Baseband Nears Market As Company Boasts 30 Tegra 3 Devices
Samsung Galaxy S III Shows In Best Buy Canada Leak Due June 20th, Maple Syrup Uncorked To Celebrate Jitters have persisted that the Canadian release of the Galaxy S III might face the customary weeks-long delays that those north...
Galaxy Note And Other Phablets Will Ship At 208 Million A Year, 500 Million Devices Could Upgrade to Windows 8 & Apple Remains World’s Most Valuable Brand
ABI: Galaxy Note And Other Phablets Will Ship At 208 Million A Year By 2015, Blot Out The Sun Some of us aren't convinced that phablets will last as more than a short-term success. That hasn't stopped ABI Research from predicting...
Koodo Mobile Will Have The HTC One V Available On June 1st, 80% Of Mobile Banking Apps May Have Security Flaws & Motorola Under Google: 3 Possible Futures
Koodo Mobile Will Have The HTC One V Available On June 1st We’ve known that Koodo Mobile was going to release the entry-level HTC One V for a few weeks now. Today the “decidedly different” wireless carrier announced on Facebook...