Archive for April 27th, 2010

BlackBerry Pearl 3G hitting Telus next month for $30

We’ve been surmising that RIM’s brand-spanking-new BlackBerry Pearl 3G has a decent shot at becoming a runaway hit if carriers can offer it for peanuts, and Canada’s Telus is off to a good start with the announcement that it’ll hit for CAD $29.99 (about $30) on a three-year contract starting next month. It looks like these guys will only be offering the 20-key version, but there’ll be a choice of two colors: black and pink, a Telus exclusive (only within Canadian borders, we’d assume). Without a CDMA version of the phone in sight, what do you want to bet they’re thanking their lucky stars they’ve got their HSPA network up and running now?

BlackBerry Pearl 3G hitting Telus next month for $30 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sanyo Juno QWERTY feature phone launches for Boost Mobile

Today Boost Mobile announced the $99.99 Sanyo Juno, a QWERTY messaging phone that Boost Mobile is pairing with its $50 monthly unlimited plan.

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New Android app helps you if you’ve fallen and can’t get up

Android phones save lives. Or they could, if they had this application installed. Let’s say grandma is walking around the house with her Droid in the pocket of her house coat, and she falls down. Luckily, you installed the iFall application. It uses the accelerometer in her phone to tell you that she fell down, allowing you to come to the rescue.

The new application is being developed by researchers at Florida State University, and uses the Android platform to determine if a user has fallen. It also is aware if the user has gotten back up, or if they are lying there unable to move. After a fall is detected, the application activates, and shows a notification that has to be cleared by the end user. If there is no response, then the application notifies whomever you request. The app is still in development at this time, but the plan is to release iFall into general use this summer.

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Nokia says leaked N8 has early software, shouldn’t be reviewed

It looks like Nokia isn’t too happy that its big N8 / Symbian^3 reveal this morning was tarnished by Eldar Murtazin’s harsh preview of the device and OS a few days ago: in a new Conversations blog post, the company says that Eldar’s “salacious headlines” masked the fact that he was looking at a “very early, pre-production prototype with dated software that is not yet ready,” and that it only ships products that are “refined, tested, re-tested, evaluated, [and] tested again.” Now, Eldar says the devices he examined had the very latest hardware and software, so it’s a bit of a he-said-she-said at this point, but there’s no denying that Nokia’s definitely shipped some not-quite-ready-for-prime-time devices lately — the N900 and Maemo 5 shipped in pretty roughed-out form, and the company itself has said the N97 was a “tremendous disappointment.” How that recent history reflects on Symbian^3 and the N8 remains to be seen, but it’s clear that Nokia’s feeling pretty defensive about things; Eldar’s been scooping Espoo’s gear for years now and the company’s never made a peep about it. Either that, or someone at Nokia is just trying to cash in on all this iPhone 4 drama by saying things like “we want our prototype back” and “we are not the Secret Police, and we want to maintain our culture of openness,” but come on — that would be a pretty crass publicity stunt, right? We want to believe.

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Rhapsody 2.0 for Apple iPhone adds offline caching

Rhapsody recently updated its iPhone application with the ability to download your favorite playlists down to your iPhone (or iPad or iPod touch), so that you can listen to tracks when yo don’t have a WiFi or 3G connection. The app requires a $10 monthly Rhapsody subscription or a $14.99 Rhapsody Premier Plus plan which allows you to subscribe for up to 3 devices.

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