Archive for May 24th, 2010

BlackBerry Bold 9800 caught sliding through OS 6 on video

When it rains Bold 9800 news, it pours. Just yesterday we were given a glimpse of its virtual keyboard and AT&T branding, and now BlackBerry’s upcoming slider can be seen more fleshed out thanks to the power of moving pictures. No narration for this video — that’s either good or bad, depending on your own personal preference — and the horizontal menu swipe looks like it’s missing some animation, but otherwise the phone’s looking pretty snappy for a pre-release. Unless we’re mistaken, that’s clearly a capacitive screen, and even better, it’s got pinch-and-zoom mulititouch. Not in the video? Some Dylan-esque troubadour holding up a cue card that gives price and release date. Bummer. Video after the break.

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Yahoo and Nokia announce alliance for email, IM, maps, and navigation services

Today Yahoo and Nokia announced a new partnership in which the two will work together to build out email, IM, maps, and navigation services. Yahoo will power Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat while Nokia will provide its Ovi Maps services to Yahoo.

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HTC Desire to get Android 2.2 in late June?

Android 2.2 might already be rolling out to the Nexus One — but what about it’s nearly-identical European brother, the HTC Desire?
If a random HTC customer service rep is to be believed — which we generally wouldn’t recommend — the Desire should be seeing Android 2.2 in all of its Flash-packin’, performance-boosting glory within [...]

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Bada Developer Challenge Gives up to $2,7 million in prizes

Samsung is really keen on getting the Bada OS going, so it started a global developer challenge, with prizes attached. With this initiative, all devs working on apps for Bada will have a chance to win the great $300,000 USD prize, with the total value of the prizes reaching $2,7 million.

There’s also the local developer [...]

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Question of the Day: Is Mobile Flash Worth It to You? [Qotd]

So today we saw some tests that suggest that having Flash running on your smartphone will almost definitely hurt performance. But hey, it’s up to you whether or not it’s worth it. So…is it? More »

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