Smartphone

RIM announces BBM mobile gifts Posted By Jamie Forestell Today at the Mobile World Conference being held in Barcelona, Research In Motion (RIM) announced plans for gifting Airtime through the App World with the use of the BBM platform. This will allow carriers to sell airtime to prepaid subscribers.  Any authorized …

Motorola secures 3LM by Jamie Forestell Motorola has announced the purchase of Three Laws of Mobility also known as 3LM, a company known for bringing security to Android devices.” The purchase will allow Motorola to focus on the security of their Android devices, and hopefully shift interest into the enterprise …

With the Mobile World Congress, being held in Barcelona,  just one day away from media day, we are going to start seeing a lot of press releases showcasing the 2011 lineup of smartphones. Or for those that want to know today, instead of tomorrow, we can head over to SamsungHub. …

Bell has announced the availability and pricing for the HTC HD7 Windows Smartphone. The 4.3″ LCD screen offers great functionality with the newest Windows Phone 7 OS. And as always, we will do our best to get our hands on one  so stay tuned! Bell is offering the HTC HD7 …

Telus has announced the pricing of the HTC Desire HD will be $499 with no contract. Contract options are available as follows: 1 year term   $449.99 2 year term   $399.99 3 year term 349.99 $149.99 ‡ ‡ Available until March 1, 2011, for clients who activate or renew on a …

Posted by Jamie Forestell Ok, so one day Stephen Elop wakes up and has a vision: our product sucks and we need to do something about it. Next day, a press event is scheduled with Microsoft and Nokia both to annouce the new partnership, and the dismissal of Symbian. Although …

Posted by Jamie Forestell There have been many leaks leading up to the release of the Motorola Xoom, including price and now the official launch date. We have confirmation thanks to Droid-Life, that the launch date is February 24 at Best Buy USA, and the contract price will be $799 USD. …

Bloomberg reports the Blackberry Playbook will indeed run Android apps. When RIM first announced the Playbook tablet, the industry cringed at the thought of an entire restructure of Blackberry applications as well as the need to develop new apps for the QNX OS. The Andriod marketplace has roughly 130,000 apps, …

Posted by Jamie Forestell Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Techonology has pointed out a major flaw with iOS devices, a flaw that Apple cannot ignore.  If you lose your iPhone, and it ends up in the wrong hands, all of your data can be recovered from the device, even if …

Bell Canada  provides Unlocking Service Posted by Jamie Forestell After our article yesterday with the news of Telus providing an unlocking service,  we were questioned about which of the providers do and do not provide an unlocking service.  Here is what we found.  Of course you can always look online …