Tag: iPhone
IDC Confirms What We All Know, BlackBerry Rules!
The Research and Consulting firm, IDC, listed the top-selling smartphone models in the US. It lists vendor sales to carriers and channels as well. So far it’s going on preliminary data. The actual numbers won’t be available till the end of the month. So let’s see what the firm says so far. No 10 is [...]
MyPhone v1.0 by MMMOOO, Dress Your BlackBerry Like An iPhone
July 7th we brought you the news about an upcoming app for the BlackBerry that gives the BlackBerry an iPhone look. It’s nice and easy to use, giving your BlackBerry two interfaces. The app is the MyPhone. We were given the honor to check out the app/theme before it was finished and it really is [...]
MyPhone v1.0.0.0 by MMMOOO Soon To Be Released
There’s a new app coming to the BlackBerry. MyPhone by MMMOOO has been available to the iPhone, but there’s a version coming to the BlackBerry as well. In case you’re wondering what the MyPhone app is, I’m going to explain. The MyPhone is like a theme you can navigate, somewhat similar to a LiveScreen, [...]
RIM Unleashes First Quarter Financial Results
RIM has reported $643 million in earnings (that’s $1.12 per share), for the 1st Quarter that ended May 30th. A year ago, that result was 482.5 million (that’s $.84 a share). Excluding a $175.1 million tax credit and other items such as that, RIM earned $564.4 million (that’s $.98 a share). Revenue was $3.42 billion, [...]
Report States BlackBerry Is The Most Secured Smartphone
“Successful Mobile Deployments Require Robust Security“, by Maribel Lopez, who was formerly with Forrester Research, states that the BlackBerry smartphones are the most secure against unauthorized access when they were compared against other device manufacturers. The report rates mobile devices in four different categories and the RIM BlackBerry devices stood out in all of them. The report [...]
Fido to pick up BlackBerry Curve 8320 this July… for $50
Looks like Rogers is finally ready to let the leash loose on Fido. In a leaked presentation that shows Fido’s upcoming handsets the ole faithful BlackBerry Curve 8320 was shown. The 8320 should show up for about $50 with three year contract (with voice and data plan). It’s expected to launch on or around July [...]
BlackBerry Floats Higher Than Apple, As RIM’s BlackBerry Curve Beats Out Apple’s iPhone
The NPD Group, a leader in wireless industry market research, released their “Smartphone Market Update” report which is based on US Consumer sales of smartphones. And once again, RIM proves to be the leader. The NPD Group attributed the rise to a “buy-one-get-one” sale by Verizon Wireless, which helped RIM’s numbers increase by fifteen percent [...]
Review: e-Mobile Weather v3.1 for BlackBerry
What is the weather like? What is it going to be like this weekend? With e-mobile Weather v3.1 installed on your Blackberry you can find out in an instant, and with the supplied themes you can customize the background to your preferences. Continue Reading this Review [...]
Better finger selection for Copy/Paste/Edit coming to future Storm OS!!
We just received a tip that an upcoming BlackBerry Storm OS will introduce better finger movements for copy/pasting and selecting text. In the picture above you see the little box which you can drag along to highlight text. It’s quite a good idea!! We can’t tell you just yet what OS this will appear in [...]
AT&T: Why iPhone is better than Storm
AT&T must be feeling a little heat from Verizon’s announcement of the first touch screen BlackBerry “Storm”. AT&T has released an internal document that outlines what the iPhone does that the Storm doesn’t. Here’s why they say the iPhone is so much better than the Storm: – The iPhone uses multi-touch technology / Storm uses [...]
BlackBerry Bold vs iPhone 3G browser
Boy Genius decided it would be fun to compare take both the BlackBerry Bold and Apple iPhone browsers head to head. In case you don't know the Bold does feature a full HTML web browser similar to the iPhone, even though it doesn't have a touch screen. Click on over to see what the iPhone's [...]
Rogers oh Rogers… 6GB of data for iPhone and maybe Bold?
Rogers must have felt the pain when 50,000+ Canadian's signed a petition against their iPhone data pricing. Well Rogers today announced special launch promotions for the iPhone. Select Rogers Plus stores will be opening at 8AM to offer the iPhone, but the best part out of all of this news…. Rogers will be offering a [...]
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