Today we met up with RIM in New York City to go hands-on with the company’s latest smartphone, the BlackBerry Torch 9800. The device is the first of its kind to run RIM’s new BlackBerry OS 6, and it sports a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, as well as a touchscreen display.
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First look: AT&T BlackBerry Torch 9800 BlackBerry OS 6 powered smartphone
Today AT&T and Research In Motion introduced the BlackBerry Torch 9800 during a press event in New York City. The device sports a touchscreen as well as a full slide-out Bold style keyboard. RIM also introduced its latest operating system, BlackBerry OS 6. Read the full story here
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RIM launches BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone with new BlackBerry OS 6
Bloomberg today reported that US Major Carriers – Verizon Wireless , AT&T and T-Mobile are planning a venture to offer a payment service based on NFC (Near Field Communication) technology, a potential technology that could challenge the credit card payment processors, such as VISA and MasterCard. According to Bloomberg, Symbian and iPhone devices will be among the first to get the NFC technology. Google’s Android, meanwhile, is still playing catch-up, and might overtake Symbian and iPhone to become the first. It remains to be seen whether the NFC payment technology would be accepted by consumers or not. picture via wikipedia.org
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US Carriers Plan A Mobile Payment Venture to Challenge Visa and MasterCard
It may be that Android is gaining ground fast in the mobile world, but amongst the teen and youth market, the device of choice is BlackBerry . Once the mainstay of business users, BlackBerry devices have increased in popularity as more and more youngsters look to get on the BlackBerry bandwagon. One reason teens admit to owning a BlackBerry is because their friends do
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BlackBerry Gains in Popularity with the Teen Market
If you are on a look out for a phone that has unique camera and nice sound system. Then Sony Ericsson Phones are exactly what you are looking for. These phones are liked by a lot of people all over the world. Xperia 10, Vivaz Pro, Zylo, Spiro, Satio, Equinox etc
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Sony Ericsson Phones : Brings Best Camera And Best Music Player
Ovi store is a service from Nokia as a place to display and download a variety of applications for your Nokia phone. Ovi has a new feature that allows you to create applications quickly and easily and can be displayed on Ovi Store.This application basically read the rss blog / website. In an application can simultaneously display four good rss blog, website, twitter etc. To make it, you can use Nokia App Wizard
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Creating Application Easily With Nokia App Wizard
In its quest to find the perfect mobile phone OS that will revamp its whole smartphone strategy, Nokia developed MeeGo. MeeGo, which is based on the Linux platform is the upcoming new OS that will be available through some of Nokia’s new smart phones. MeeGo was announced at the Mobile World Congress by Nokia and Intel. Its the integration of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo
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MeeGo OS Video Leaked
Kevin Turner, Microsoft COO, said during a presentation yesterday that Europe will be first to get Windows Phone 7 phones. Americans will see the device on the market in November. Never before has a Microsoft executive been giving such specifics about release dates.
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Windows Phone 7 coming to Europe in October.
Both John Doe and Jane Doe are toiling very hard to earn a living for their families and for themselves as well. They are working very hard because simply to provide the basic needs for their family members such as food, clothing and shelter. Though, at these times these basic needs are not the only the prime requirements of a family on account of during these modern times the needs of every human being is very complex compared to other people during the ancient times. In this day and age, a lot of white collar workers barely live from their meager paychecks which only provide them the basic necessities in life but I am not sure if this will give them the comforts in life such as fashionable clothing, being a certified a jetsetters to a fab places such as flying to London to snatch up your fave garbs in one of your snazzy shops at Oxford Street and visit one of the historical places in London such as the Buckingham Palace
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Affordable Apartments in London
Apple has rolled out its iAd programme to developers, which means they can buy ads to promote their own content in other apps. Apple will be charging developers 25 cents per iAd click, which is a significant discounts from what it charges brand advertisers ($2 per click, 1 cent per impression). The good thing about iAds is that user can download advertised apps from the App Store without leaving the app they’re in.
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Developers can now book iAds to promote their own apps
- by iphone-tips-tricks.com - Q: Why should I jailbreak my iPhone 4? A: It can enable your iPhone 4 to make FaceTime calls over 3G rather than over WiFi. [read my older post HERE] Especially if you live in an area where you have good 3G signal and a poor WiFi coverage.
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iPhone TIPS: FaceTime Over 3G Worth a JailBreakme.com Visit?
The decision of the United Arab Emirates to ban BlackBerry email, messenger and web browsing services goes to the heart of the way in which the handheld devices operate – itself a consequence of the mobile market in which they were born. When the first BlackBerry appeared, over a decade ago, mobile phone networks were far more basic than they are today. The most innovative service the majority of users had seen since mobile devices first appeared in the 1980s was the introduction of text messaging. In the US, many mobile users were still making calls on analogue networks, while in Europe the new digital operators were only just introducing data services. But the sorts of speeds possible over networks such as Orange and Cellnet in the UK were pitiful.
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How BlackBerry developed its mobile phone and networks
EquaTerra, a global sourcing advisory firm with expertise in information technology (IT), finance, human resources and other business processes, has conducted research for Computer Weekly readers that analyses the market and trends for IT outsourcing in Western Europe.
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EquaTerra Takes the Pulse of European Outsourcing Market
The all new galaxy range brought by Samsung is doing wonders. One of those is the beautiful Samsung Galaxy Portal. This is one amazing handset it is power packed with so many features that it would be a wise decision to purchase it. Portal is available in two contrast hues of White and Black. It has a phone memory of 180 MB
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Samsung Galaxy Portal : A Star In Phone Galaxy
This is how it looks, pretty cool right, definitely much better looking at the flimsy paper boarding pass that you get at the check in counter. The British Airways app lets you access your current and upcoming flight details, check-in and discover flight information, timetables and so on. Right now you can only use the mobile boarding pass between London Heathrow and Edinburgh
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New British Airways Boarding Pass on mobile
In this article of wsj.com, it reports that Apple is “looking into” reports of issues being experienced by iPhone 3G users who have upgraded to the company’s new iOS 4. We at ITT also reported that the iPhone 3G is behaving sluggish when updated to iOS 4.0 and iOS 4.0.1.
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iPhone TIPS: 3G Sluggish Speed Comparison Video [iPhone 2G vs 3G vs 3GS vs 4]
In my quest to try once again to use a single device for all my needs, I decided that the first real test for my T-Mobile USA HTC HD2 would be with regards to the audio experience. In my previous article on the subject , I laid out what I thought were the needs, criteria and requirements for what would be deemed an acceptable experience
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Rethinking Device Convergence–The Audio Experience
A new press release came out today from Apple, assuring the iPhone 4 is purchasable this friday 30th July in 17 countries including Italy, where I am staying for holiday. I will check out the TIM Vodafone and 3 shops in Rome. [UPDATED July 29 2010] Vodafone Price 16GB iPhone 4 Black is 659 euro LINK (translated from Italian) See screenshot below
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iPhone TIPS: iPhone 4 Arrives in 17 More Countries This Friday [UPDATED]
- via iphone-ticker.de - Developer Filip Chudzinski has created this amazing poster with all the prices of the iPhones available in the countries. Without a “locker” symbol means the iPhone is sold Factory Unlocked. So please say thank you the developer for his great work. And it looks awesome too. Please do’t forget to read my recent tutorials about buying a Factory Unlocked iPhone 4 (aka SIM
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iPhone TIP: Factory Unlocked iPhone 4 Prices listed per Country [Poster]