We've been waiting for a long, long time for this — RIM has finally announced an official launch date for the LTE-capable BlackBerry PlayBook. It'll be available in Canada "on select carriers" this August 9th, one week from today. Unfortunately, there's no word on pricing or which carriers will...
Better late than never
Redmond. Cupertino. Mountain View. In the tech world, these cities are indelibly stamped with their respective company names: Microsoft, Apple, Google. The places have become synonymous with their firms: we await the “news from Redmond” when...
Verizon's Share Everything plans may not appeal to everyone, but a $40 credit to put toward monthly charges may be just the thing to entice new customers. The Amazon Wireless deal applies only to new activations for smartphones enrolled in a Share Everything plan, and the credit can take up to three cycles to show up on the account. The list of eligible phones range from low-end devices like...
Hampus Jakobsson, who founded currently RIM-owned UI developer group The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), just announced that he has left RIM to pursue other projects. Jakobsson made the announcement in a tweet from TAT's account, saying he was "handing it over to others in RIM."
"I'm a startup guy and even if I really liked the company and the people, I felt it was time to start another one." Hampus Jakobsson
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The latest numbers from Strategy Analytics suggest that while the iPhone remains strong, total US smartphone shipments are behind where they were a year ago. In its estimate for the second quarter of 2012, Strategy reported 23.8 million total smartphones shipped in the US, down 1.4 million from...
The 10-inch PlayBook tablet has been rumored and roadmapped for some time now, but Vietnamese forum Tinhte has given us a first glimpse at what an iPad-sized BlackBerry tablet might look like. Unsurprisingly, it looks very much like a larger...
Samsung today posted extremely healthy financials for Q2 2012, and analysts have agreed that its smartphone division is well ahead of the rest of the competition. IDC says Samsung's Q2 smartphone shipments were 50.2 million, while Strategy Analytics reports a slightly higher...
