Author Archives: Chris Brakebill

Sprint announces the HTC Hero coming October 11

When the HTC Hero and it’s new Sense UI were introduced in June, the question on everyone’s minds was when is this thing coming to the US.  Little by little, bits of information and speculation came and it was basically a given that the Hero would first be coming to Sprint.  Today they made it [...]

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RIM has big plans for future of Blackberry browser

Boy Genius Report has been doing some digging and have all but confirmed that RIM has plans to really improve the Blackberry browser (which at this point is a pretty poor experience).  How are they going to do that? With full Flash and Microsoft Silverlight support.

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Motorola Morrison details leaked

Let’s face it, Android phones have been few and far between for a while, but the big manufacturers are starting to get on board and produce their own Android devices.  Motorola has been reportedly working for a while on a couple of Android powered phones to bring to the market this fall.  The Sholes is [...]

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T-Mobile UK quietly offers iPhone 3G to unhappy customers

In the US, AT&T has had an exclusive contract with Apple for the iPhone since its release.  In the UK, that honor of honors lies with O2.  However, it seems that some lucky T-Mobile UK customers can purchase the iPhone 3G through their carrier, despite the fact that they have no agreement with Apple to [...]

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iPhone hardware encryption not all it’s cracked up to be

Some businesses need their information to be secure and, in the event of an emergency, need to be able to wipe with strong encryption so that sensitive data cannot be recovered.  One of the features Apple touted on their new iPhone 3GS was the business friendly hardware encryption.  This was supposed to provide strong built [...]

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Blackberry Desktop Manager (finally) coming to Mac

Being a Blackberry user with a Mac has been an unpleasant experience for a long time.  The only real solution for syncing and loading apps has been third party software like PocketMac.  RIM gave users a little taste of Blackberry-Mac love last December when they released Media Sync.  Now they’re giving us more: a full [...]

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Palm releases WebOS Mojo SDK to the public

Apple’s iPhone SDK and App Store have created a thriving community of developers and a strong market for applications.  And that took Apple a year to make public after the release of the original iPhone.  Just over a month after the release of the Pre, Palm has released the Mojo SDK which allows developers to [...]

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Google Voice apps available for Blackberry, Android

Google Voice, formerly Grand Central, has released their first apps for mobile devices this morning.  The applications, for the Blackberry OS and devices running Android, allow users to utilize their Google Voice service directly from their mobile phone, and ease some of the bigger difficulties involved with using the service.

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Nokia and AT&T “ride a social wave” with Nokia Surge

Nokia and AT&T have officially announced the availability of the Nokia Surge, a new S60 based phone which will be targeted at users who are particularly into social networking.  According to Nokia’s press release the Surge is “an ideal device for active consumers who like to stay connected whether using IM, text or email, sending [...]

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RIM working to make Gmail on Blackberry more like…Gmail

Gmail on a Blackberry device is not an easy thing to work with.  Since IMAP is near impossible to use on the device, you are left with only two solutions: POP access or the Gmail app. Neither of which provide users with the great experience they are used to. There is hope, however, because RIM [...]

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