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BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100, Motorola Dext & Quench Available For Pre-Order With Best Buy Canada

Pre-Orders Now Up For Telus BlackBerry Pearl 9100, Rogers Motorola Quench & Bell Mobility Motorola Dext]
By on Friday, 30. April 2010

Best Buy Canada often places handsets on pre-order status before the actual carriers, so this latest comes as par for the course. That said, those interested can now head to Best Buy and put their money down on either a Motorola Dext, Motorola Quench or the BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100.

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RIM Makes the Top 5 Worldwide Phone Sellers & Apple Becomes First U.S. Handset Manufacturer

RIM Becomes Fourth Phone Maker in the World While Apple Becomes Biggest U.S. Cellphone Maker; Both Beat Motorola]
By on Friday, 30. April 2010

I don’t really care that much about tops but they do reflect the way companies perform in various domains. This time around we’re looking, yet again, at cell phone makers. The biggest loser of the day, and I am only referring to tops here, is Motorola. Not only was the [...]

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Verizon Wireless Is "Prepared" For The 2010 Florida Hurricane Season

Hurricanes Happen & Verizon Has Florida Covered With Five "Super Switches" To Ensure Reliable Service
By on Friday, 30. April 2010

Verizon Wireless has announced that they have recently brought the fifth of five “Super Switches” online here in Florida. What is a Super Switch you ask? Well, it seems as if it is Verizon’s answer to making sure those living in Florida will be able to use the mobile network [...]

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Apple Releases iPad 3G Today

We Tell You Everything You Need To Know About 3G iPad, Nothing For European Customers
By on Friday, 30. April 2010

Apple’s iPad 3G arrives in stores and front steps today. If you hadn’t pre-ordered on the of new tablets, then you can get them at Apple Stores and Best Buys at around 5pm (no midnight launch). The 9.7-inch iPad will come with three storage options, 16, 32 and 64GB. The [...]

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HP Tablet (aka HP Slate) Cancelled as HP Decide Against Windows 7 OS?

Unsubstantiated Report Says Win 7 HP Slate Terminated, If So We’re Gutted
By on Friday, 30. April 2010

At this juncture we should stress that, as at the time of writing, there’s no official word from HP concerning this matter, however, should an unnamed source be believed it would appear that HP have suddenly acted to terminate their much anticipated (not least by us) tablet, aka the HP [...]

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Apple iTunes Movie Store Downloads Now Official in France & Ireland, Other Markets Still Waiting

Apple iTunes Movie Store Downloads Available from €2.99 to €13.99; Is Apple Preparing for the iPad’s European Debut?]
By on Friday, 30. April 2010

The iPad’s European launch is getting closer and closer and Apple is surely preparing for it. How do I know that? Well Cupertino officially announced today that both France and Ireland are finally granted access to Apple’s iTunes Movie Store downloads.

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Motorola RAZR3 Confirmed as RAZR3 Details Emerge in Video Demo

Motorola set to Resuscitate RAZR Series With New Touchscreen Handset – RAZR3 Not Dead After All
By on Friday, 30. April 2010

Those of you with good memories, and, perhaps, a particular penchant for Motorola’s range of RAZR handsets, may recall that the Motorola RAZR3 was initially scheduled to release in late ’09 or early this year but all suddenly went quiet until now thanks to the RAZR3 surfacing in a video [...]

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Nokia Launches Symbian Web App Tools

Nokia's New Web-based Application Development Tools Allow for Easy Creation of Mobile Apps with HTML/CSS/JavaScript
By on Friday, 30. April 2010

As of late, success stories regarding App Developers (be it for the iPhone, Android, etc.) have somewhat died down. However, if you were to go back briefly in time you would find media outlets everywhere reporting on how much money various mobile applications developers have made. The reason these app [...]

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Vodafone Nexus One Officially Available Today, April 30th

Reports Of Pre-Order Inventory Running Low Seem To Have Passed, Vodafone Nexus One Sales Go Live, Still Being Offered Free On-Contract
By on Friday, 30. April 2010

Vodafone first put the Nexus One up for pre-order a little less than a week ago, and we pretty quickly began hearing reports that the handset had sold out. Or more specifically, reports came in that orders were still being accepted, but that the shipment would be delayed for a [...]

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BlackBerry 9760 Flip Phone Coming to Verizon & Vodafone Only?

Clamshell BlackBerry 9760 Smartphone Now Said to be a Custom Job for Verizon
By on Friday, 30. April 2010

Well if it isn’t the ugly duckling that just managed to catch our attention again! Say what you will about the clamshell BlackBerry 9670 but I bet that “nice”, “beautiful” or “pretty” are not going to be the words to describe it.

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