Last night I said goodbye to society and locked myself in my computer room to watch the Google/Samsung announcement; boy am I glad I did. I was quite simply blown away. My two favorite parts? The camera on the Galaxy Nexus (zero shutter lag) and Android Beam (which uses NFC to share content with other [...]

You have a brand new BlackBerry 7 smartphone with an NFC chip built into the battery door (unless of course that smartphone happens to be a Torch, in which case you’re SOL) and have all the abilities of NFC in the palm of your hand, right? As of right now, not really. All you can [...]

A lot of fuss has been made over the NFC capabilities of the new BlackBerry devices, but to date, the technology has mainly been talked about in the context of a mobile payment system. As convenient as that might be, RIM and HID have been working together on a new project, to use the NFC [...]

Sasktel officially launched the 9360 and 9860 to their subscribers today, rounding out their lineup of the new BlackBerry 7 smartphones. For those trying to keep up with all the nunbers, the 9360 is the latest generation of the Curve series, with a full physical keyboard, NFC capabilities, and 800 Mhz processor, retailing for $349.99 [...]

Word has come through Bloomberg that Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile have responded to the Google Wallet project, investing $100 million collectively in an NFC mobile payment project, named Isis. While Sprint has stayed away from the project at this time, likely due to their involvement in the Wallet project, those involved in the Isis project [...]

We’ve posted quite a few rumoured release dates for the Curve 9360 for different carriers over the last week, but today Telus and Koodo officially released the device. Price points are sitting right where they were expected to, with Telus retailing the device for $349.99 outright, and cutting the cost to $49.99 on a three-year [...]

Since the launch of the latest lineup of BlackBerry smartphones, there has been a fair amount of buzz regarding NFC, what it is, and what use it might be to the average user. NFC (Near Field Communication) can be leveraged for a host of possible uses, and Rogers is allegedly in talks with at least [...]

Are you a BlackBerry enthusiast who needs their touch screen, but doesn’t need all the bells and whistles associated with the gloriously just-released BlackBerry 9900? If so, I think this may be your calling. What you’re looking at here is essentially a shrunken down version of the BlackBerry 9860 Torch, despite being labeled in the [...]

It’s really no question that the new “it” topic of the mobile world is NFC, and how/when it will become a common occurrence in both devices and in retail stores. Slowly but surely manufacturers are hopping the bandwagon, implementing the technology into their new releases and forthcoming releases. As for the merchants who will handle the payment processing, [...]

And we’re here! #BB7FanNight is officially upon us in Toronto, Ontario at the Fifth Social Club. The crowd is abuzz over all the new devices RIM has kept up their sleeves for the past few months. Despite incessant leaks, rumors, shots, etc. they have done a great job maintaining excitement towards their largest global launch [...]