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Facebook Messenger app now available for BlackBerry

A while back Facebook released the Facebook Messenger app for iOS and Android, leaving BlackBerry users in the dark. Today, Facebook finally released the app for BlackBerry users which you can find here. The application takes after BBM, allowing you to see who is online (and on mobile), tells you when the other user is [...]
Best Buy’s ‘Free Phone Friday’ is back again!

Tomorrow is another installment of Free Phone Fridays over at Best Buy. In case you are unaware, Free Phone Fridays is where Best Buy offers select devices for $0 with 3-year terms with multiple carriers. The devices this week are: Telus: BlackBerry 9360 Bell: HTC Sensation & BlackBerry 9900 Rogers: Rogers Galaxy Q & Infuse [...]
WIND drops retail of Nexus S and Optimus 2X
WIND subscribers not wanting to get their hands on the BlackBerry Bold 9900 they announced they would be carrying have a couple of very compelling choices on the Android side of the coin. WIND has now dropped the price of their two best Android devices, the Nexus S and the Optimus 2X down to $380 [...]
RIM to announce BlackBerry 9980 “Knight” October 27th

[Editor's Note: I'm a BlackBerry Puritan, so I have a soft spot for any BlackBerry in the "traditional" design, but this device, in my opinion, falls squarely in the "collector's item" bracket. While it's a neat concept, and awesome to see RIM doing a collaborative work like this, that device is, for want of a [...]
Asus announces Transformer Prime tablet

Last week we brought news of the 2nd generation Asus Transformer tablet that was spotted on LambdaTek Component Shop with a launch date of November 7th. Today Asus CEO Jonney Shih revealed the new tablet now named Transformer Prime. This 10″ tablet is the first to utilize NVIDIA’s new quad-core Tegra 3 processor. That is right QUAD-CORE in [...]
Samsung and Google introduce GALAXY Nexus

If you haven’t yet heard about the Galaxy Nexus yet, then you’ve obviously been living under a rock. Samsung and Google have finally unleashed the first device to feature Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and the first with a 4.65″ HD Super AMOLED display at 720p resolution. Ice Cream Sandwich was developed to bridge the [...]
Telus releasing Sony Xperia Ray this Christmas, we have a couple hands-on pics
Motorola ADMIRAL available for under $100 from Sprint

Motorola and Sprint have just officially announced the first Android-Powered smartphone with Sprint Direct Connect (push-to-talk). The ADMIRAL features Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), a 1.2GHz processor, 3.1 VGA touchscreen with Gorilla Glass along with a QWERTY keyboard, 5MP camera with LED flash (720p), 4GB of internal storage and can support up to 32GB microSD, Wi-Fi, [...]
Verizon turns on LTE in 22 new cities

This one is for our friends south of the border, Verizon has just launched LTE in 22 new cities today: Fort Myers, FL (LTE currently is available in the airport) Buffalo/Niagara, NY Sioux City, IA Terre Haute, IN Albuquerque, NM Birmingham, AL (The footprint will also extend out I-65 North to Cullman, I-59 North to [...]
BlackBerry Bold 9900 now available at WIND

As we mentioned the other day Christmas was coming early for WIND Mobile subscribers and that WIND Mobiles first present would be the BlackBerry Bold 9900. Well, the Bold 9900 has now officially been unwrapped and is sitting under the tree for $169 on the WIND tab+ or $569 outright. To refresh your memory the Bold 9900 [...]